FIA announces 2003 F1 Schedule

By Andrew Hooper
June 28 2002


	2003 Championship Schedule

	The FIA has now officially announced the Formula One season calendar for 2003. The season will involve seventeen races, with the opening race been the Australian Grand Prix. The remaining part of the season calendar is not so different from this year's, excepting that the Silverstone and Magny-Cours events are going to switch places. The French Grand Prix is due to follow the European Grand Prix held at the Nürburgring. Another change is the cancelled mid-season break. There will only be fourteen days separating the 2003 Grand Prix taking place in Hungary and on the Hockenheimring. Here is the provisional 2003 Grand Prix calendar. March 9 - Australian GP, Melbourne March 23 - Malaysian GP, Sepang April 6 - Brazilian GP, Sao Paulo April 20 - San Marino GP, Imola May 4 - Spanish GP, Barcelona May 18 - Austrian GP, Spielberg June 1 - Monaco GP, Monte Carlo June 15 - Canadian GP, Montreal June 29 - European GP, Nürburgring July 6 - French GP, Magny-Cours July 20 - British GP, Silverstone August 3 - German GP, Hockenheim August 17 - Hungarian GP, Hungaroring August 31 - Belgian GP, Spa-Francochamps September 14 - Italian GP, Monza September 28 - U.S. GP, Indianapolis October 12 - Japanese GP, Suzuka