Formula 1: Tracks on the 2019 schedule without contracts for 2020
By Asher Fair
Which tracks on the 2019 Formula 1 schedule do not currently have contracts to return to the schedule in the 2020 season?
Following the confirmation that the Dutch Grand Prix is set to return to the Formula 1 schedule at Circuit Zandvoort for the first time since the 1985 season starting in the 2020 season, which tracks that are on the 2019 schedule do not have contracts to return to the schedule for the 2020 season and thus are at risk of being cut from the schedule after the 2019 season reaches its conclusion?
Of the 21 tracks that are on the 2019 schedule, 15 are set to return in the 2020 season, leaving six that either will not or might not.
These six tracks, in the order of where they are currently positioned on the schedule, are Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Silverstone Circuit, Hockenheimring, Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace.
The 16-turn, 2.892-mile (4.654-kilometer) Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya road course in Montmelo, Catalonia, Spain has hosted the Spanish Grand Prix in each of the last 29 seasons going all the way back to 1991, but it has been rumored that it will leave the schedule with the addition of the Dutch Grand Prix.
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The Dutch Grand Prix is set to be held at Circuit Zandvoort, the 13-turn, 2.676-mile (4.307-kilometer) road course in Zandvoort, Netherlands for at least the next three seasons starting next year.
The 18-turn, 3.661-mile (5.892-kilometer) Silverstone Circuit road course in Silverstone in part Northamptonshire and part Buckinghamshire in England, United Kingdom has hosted the British Grand Prix a total of 52 times since the inaugural Formula 1 season back in 1950. It has hosted this race in each of the last 32 seasons going all the way back to 1987.
At this point, nothing is certain, but the goal is definitely for Silverstone Circuit to return to the schedule for the 2020 season and beyond.
The 16-turn, 2.842-mile (4.574-kilometer) Hockenheimring road course in Am Motodrom, Hockenheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany has hosted the German Grand Prix a total of 36 times since the 1970 season.
Hockenheimring has hosted races in even years only since 2006, but after it was originally dropped from the 2019 schedule, a deal was reached to bring it back for this year. The status of this track as far as the 2020 season is concerned is in doubt once again.
The 11-turn, 3.600-mile (5.794-kilometer) Autodromo Nazionale Monza road course in Monza, Italy has hosted the Italian Grand Prix in 68 of 69 seasons of Formula 1 competition, as it only did not do so in the 1980 season. It also hosted five European Drivers Championship races from 1931 to 1938.
Formula 1 has reached an “agreement in principle for a new five-year deal” with Autodromo Nazionale Monza for the track to continue hosting the Italian Grand Prix with the hope that this agreement will be signed in the near future, preferably by the end of July.
The 17-turn, 2.674-mile (4.303-kilometer) Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course in Mexico City, Mexico has hosted the Mexican Grand Prix a total of 19 times since the 1963 season. It has hosted this race in each of the last four seasons going back to the 2015 season after not hosting it since the 1992 season.
Mexican Grand Prix race organizers missed the deadline to secure a place for the race on the 2020 schedule, so the future of this race is currently in doubt.
The 15-turn, 2.677-mile (4.308-kilometer) Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace road course in Sao Paulo, Brazil has hosted the Brazilian Grand Prix a total of 36 times since the 1973 seasons. It has hosted this race in each of the last 29 seasons going all the way back to the 1990 season.
However, with the Brazilian Grand Prix set to move to a not yet built purpose-built track in Rio de Janeiro beginning in the 2020 season, Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace is scheduled to host its final Formula 1 race in the foreseeable future this November.
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