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June 23, 2009 3:16 p.m. Alonso New Reader

From Crash.com

The full FOTA 2010 schedule, as published in The Guardian, is as follows:

7 March Buenos Aires Argentina Last hosted F1 in 1998 21 March Mexico City Mexico Last hosted F1 in 1992 11 April Jerez Spain Last hosted F1 in 1997 25 April Portimao Portugal Never hosted F1 2 May Imola San Marino Last hosted F1 in 2006 23 May Monte Carlo Monaco Current F1 host 6 June Montreal Canada Last hosted F1 in 2008 13 June Indianapolis United States Last hosted F1 in 2007 11 July Silverstone United Kingdom Current F1 host 25 July Magny-Cours France Last hosted F1 in 2008 15 August Laustizring Germany Never hosted F1 29 August Helsinki Finland Never hosted F1 12 September Monza Italy Current F1 host 26 September Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Current F1 host 10 October Marina Bay Singapore Current F1 host 24 October Suzuka Japan Last hosted F1 in 2006 7 November Adelaide or Surfers' Paradise Australia Last hosted F1 in 1995/Never hosted F1

Wow, if real, that sounds like an excelent schedule, much better then what the FIA has been scheduling. Thats three North American venues whereas this year's has none. I would be sad to see interlagos go though, thats such an awesome track.
June 23, 2009 5:44 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork

I just Yahoo mapped how far it was to Mexico City...maybe I will fly.
June 23, 2009 6:06 p.m. z31maniac Dork

Fake, a few of those tracks, such as Singapore, are under binding contracts with FOM to not host any competing series.

More fake BS released by the FOTA to try to bolster there position.

I do like the track selection though. But what really pisses me off you ask?

Let's cut costs, but add some races!!!! If the teams are no longer spending tens, sometimes hundreds of millions on CFD and scale wind tunnel testing, lets have a few more races each year.

Like 20.
June 23, 2009 7:31 p.m. carguy123 Dork

Why would more races piss you off?
June 23, 2009 10:49 p.m. DirtyBird222 Dork

FOTA is breaking away because of spending budgets, well at least thats one of the reasons correct? So why would you count in cutting costs?

God and why Indy? Plenty of great tracks in America. Road America, Sebring (maybe to harsh for the nancy boys that pilot those cars), Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen, etc.
June 24, 2009 2:23 a.m. maroon92 SuperDork

DirtyBird222 said:
Sebring (maybe to harsh for the nancy boys that pilot those cars)

I think it has less to do with the drivers than the cars...
June 24, 2009 3:58 a.m. BobOfTheFuture Reader

Indy- would that be the super speed way, or some kind of road course?
June 24, 2009 7:56 a.m. Tom_Spangler New Reader

BobOfTheFuture wrote:

Indy- would that be the super speed way, or some kind of road course?

Huh? Indy's had a road course for years now. F1 ran there from 2000-2007. It's not the greatest road course in the world, but it's a road course nonetheless.

Selfishly, I'd like to see them return to Indy becasue it's fairly close to me and I have relatives there I can stay with. But the race fan in me would love to see them at a real natural road course like Road America or Laguna Seca. I know there was some talk about that in the past, and the conclusion was that all the other tracks were either too far from a major urban center and/or not up to FIA specs. Indy also has the advantage of being very central.

But I stand by my assertion that this "leaked calendar" is all a bunch of hooey.
June 24, 2009 1:53 p.m. aeronca65t HalfDork

FOTA has kissed and made up with the FIA.

~Click Here for story~

Part of the deal is Pervy-Max leaves.
June 24, 2009 5:45 p.m. z31maniac Dork

carguy123 wrote:

Why would more races piss you off?

Misunderstood, I want more races.

I'm saying the hundreds of millions that are going to be saved by all this should be able to add a few dates to the calendar.
June 24, 2009 5:54 p.m. iceracer Reader

Yep, no breakup.
June 25, 2009 7:47 a.m. Wally SuperDork

maroon92 wrote:

DirtyBird222 said:
Sebring (maybe to harsh for the nancy boys that pilot those cars)

I think it has less to do with the drivers than the cars...

I don't know, they both seem a little on the soft side

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/f1-drivers-distracted-by-martini-billboard/

F1 drivers campaigned to have a huge billboard depicting an attractive woman removed prior to Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.

The advertisement for Martini stood right in the drivers' line of sight as they accelerated out of the Loews hairpin and turned right.

Race winner Jenson Button admitted to Bild newspaper: "Every time you passed her, it was as though she was looking right at you."

The model, 29-year-old Jessiqa Pace, was in Monaco, laughing at the story but admitting she would have felt "terrible if someone got hurt".
June 25, 2009 9:34 a.m. maroon92 SuperDork

I was distracted as hell by that same billboard....pretty woman....

z31maniac said:
I'm saying the hundreds of millions that are going to be saved by all this should be able to add a few dates to the calendar.

Vat do you sink zis iss? NASCARs?

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