Paris (AFP)
The Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix, scheduled for June 13, was canceled due to the health situation in that country and replaced in the calendar by a second race in Austria on the 27.
This Styrian Grand Prix will be held one week before the Austrian Grand Prix scheduled for the following week on the same Spielberg circuit.
Already, in July 2020, two races had been contested on the Austrian circuit, to launch the F1 season after the postponement of all previous events.
Due to these changes, the Grand Prix de France du Castellet is brought forward by one week and will be run on June 20.
It was originally scheduled for June 27 and, according to organizers, much of the 15,000 seats scheduled each day have already been sold.
The Spielberg circuit is owned by Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of Red Bull and main shareholder of two F1 teams, Red Bull Racing and Alpha Tauri, in which Frenchman Pierre Gasly races.
The promoter of the French GP was not a candidate this week to organize a second race on the Castellet circuit.
Turkey recently decreed a new lockdown, which has already caused the displacement of the Champions League final on May 29 from Istanbul to Porto, where it will be played by two English clubs, Manchester City and Chelsea.
It was in Turkey last November that Lewis Hamilton became world champion for the seventh time in his career.
He then had the Covid-19 and missed a race at the end of the season.
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