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With Spa, which circuits could alternate on the Formula 1 calendar?
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The announcement of Contract extension for the Belgian Grand Prix and Spa-Francorchamps on the calendar of the Formula 1 until 2031 hides a detail that has obviously not gone unnoticed: from 2027, the Belgian event will be held every other year (2027, 2029, 2031), launching the alternation process dear to Stefano Domenicali. The president of Formula 1 had raised this idea in 2024 as a solution to the many applications from non-European countries (Rwanda, South Africa, Thailand) to host the discipline in turn. Obviously, with the officialization of the alternation of Spa-Francorchamps from 2027, several circuits – European, in particular – could be tempted to follow this trend to regain a place on the calendar in the medium term.
HockenheimAbsent from the calendar since 2019, could Hockenheim make a return to the calendar in the near future? It is quite possible. In August 2024, new investors – the company Emodrom Group –
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Yves-Henri RANDIER
10/01/2025 at 05:59 a.m.
Hockenheim redesigned by Hermann Tilke has kept its Motodrom but remains far from the original spirit with its long "straight" lines in the forest decorated with 3 chicanes to slow down the single-seaters. Imola is perhaps too "old school" with its narrow track, Paul Ricard in nature will have no financial support from a more than over-indebted French state and Barcelona will not survive Madrid because the Generalitat de Catalunya clearly has other priorities! As for Portimão, Mugello, Zandvoort and Istanbul, it all depends on whether the Portuguese government is ready to sponsor the return of a GP on the hilly Algarve track (sponsorship that Erdogan is ready to sign as part of Turkey's sportswashing) while it is hard to see a second Grand Prix in Italy on the hilly Mugello (except for Ferrari's 80th anniversary?) when Zandvoort, although well revamped with its bankings, anticipates the end of the Verstappen "hype"! We risk seeing GPs reappear in South Africa and Argentina (or even in South Korea and Malaysia) and/or new destinations appear like Thailand and Rwanda.