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Formula 1

Races Watched 2025

At the beginning of 2024 I started to log all the races I watched. Now with two years of data I wanted to see what the numbers look like. Spotify Wrapped has a lot to answer for.

I wish I’d started doing this years ago. I’d love to know how the numbers compare to 2008 through to the early 2010s. I started this blog in ’08 and I watched a heck of a lot of races in those years. I used to post weekly reviews of what I was watching at the time, but never collated it.

There are people I follow online who watch more than me, and who should take the title of ‘I Watch Too Much Racing’. Shout out to Matt White, who inspired me to start tracking, as he posts all his races to socials – and got over 750 in ’25!

In a few days I will share the best races I saw in those two years. 2024 & 2025.

[Editors note: Calendars are bubbling away in the background, I’ll focus on those fully after I’ve done these.]

Races

In 2024 (blue) I had a big push in the spring but then felt burned out. It almost felt a chore to keep up and I kept things to a bare minimum, just F1 and IndyCar, with a couple of IMSA races to round out December.

2025 (orange) was the opposite. I never got started until February, then in the spring we had bad news in the family, obviously I placed my attention there rather than watch anything. When I decided to start up again I caught up all the F1 and IndyCar and also picked up my project to watch the 2024 BTCC.

That meant I caught up fast, so by August it became the game to try to beat 2024’s total by December. I made it by just two: 134 to 132

I actually felt better about it as well, not so burned out. I was still sick of F1 by the end of November, even with a brilliant title fight to enjoy.

Hours

Note: I count this by approximating the green flag to chequered flag time. I don’t include practice, qualifying, pre-race or post-race.

The gap of 20 hours in January was never closed down, and by the end of the year it was a gap of 33 hours. 133.4 hours versus 166.7 hours.

How to explain this? Simply the choice of racing. Last year I included sportscar racing. I just couldn’t find the time this year and that shows in the stats.

A lot of 30-minute BTCC and 20-minute support races on the excellent ITV4 coverage, racks up a lot of races in about 4 hours. A single endurance race doesn’t really move the race counter but it can add 12 or 24 hours.

Series

With apologies for those using screen readers, I can’t see an easy way to paste an Excel table here so I’ve used an image, and it’s difficult to express that in alt text.

Races:

F1 dominated with 30 races per year.

One big change in recent times is F1 growing to be all-consuming. We’re now expected to watch 30 races per year including the Sprints. A far cry from the days of 16 Grands Prix when I first started.

This creates a time sink. It sucks away a lot of time, energy and oxygen from other series. It is the reason I can’t keep up with MotoGP, Formula E, WEC or IMSA. I think it is deliberate.

I’ve long been an advocate for quality over quantity. I would prefer 17 or 18 quality Grands Prix, and no sprints, in order to allow other series to breathe. However, the body slam of constant F1 has pushed it to new heights, and that in turn appears to be helping other motorsport rather than hinder. I wonder if I’m a minority here.

BTCC is second. Most of the rest of the list are support races for BTCC. I’d like to thank ITV4 once again for bringing these to us. Amazing coverage. I record the 7-hour show and watch all of them. Many only appear at certain venues in the year, so the next track on the BTCC schedule might include a different slate of supports.

You MUST watch every variant of Minis and MINIs. Find them on YouTube. The best.

IndyCar is my other big series. I’ll always watch IndyCar.

Hours:

This is where you really see the effect of endurance races. I only saw three IMSA races in 2024 (part of Daytona 2024 live and a couple of 2019 races) and this was worth nearly 19 hours. I also managed a 4-race Asian Le Mans season and some of Le Mans.

In 2025 I only watched a short IMSA race, being the 2019 Lime Rock 2hr 40min GT-only race, and one ELMS & LMC weekend.

Backlog & 2026

Long-term followers on Twitter & Bluesky will know about my behemoth of a backlog spreadsheet.

My ambition for 2026 is to get caught up with the BTCC’s 2025 season early, and do my best to stay in touch with this season’s rounds much closer to when they actually happened. I want to get trackside again while having some clue what is going on. I highly recommend going to BTCC, I guarantee you’ll not be bored.

The other reason is BTCC is filling up my Sky DVR and I need the space. I also have a lot of MotoGP highlights too. Hence I want to use the rest of this off-season on as much of those as possible, too.
[Sidebar: I’ve had an offer of Sky UHD. My older box doesn’t support UHD although my TV does. I would need a replacement box, but that means losing all those recordings.]

All of this means my other project got mothballed: Catching up 5 years of IMSA & WEC so that I can join in with GTP & Hypercar. There just hasn’t been time.

That’s the thing about endurance racing: the races are really long.

Having seen every IMSA race since the American Le Mans Series era, and every WEC race since before WEC existed (the ILMC) – let’s go back to the old Le Mans Series circa 2009 – both up until mid-2019, I’m not interested in skipping past those years and joining in from today. I have to complete the set. Even though I know there are some dire times in WEC from 2019 to 2023. I am motivated to see the end of LMP1 & DPi and the start of LMH/LMDh. I am not giving in.

Of my personal favourite series, as of 1st January 2026, these are my next races:

F1: Up to date;
IndyCar: Up to date;
BTCC: 2025 Donington Park National;
MotoGP: 2024 Lusail;
Formula E: 2024 Mexico City;
IMSA WSC: 2019 Road America;
WEC: 2019 Silverstone;
ELMS: 2019 Silverstone;

Never Gonna Happen

If I can’t find time for my favourite series, I’m surely not going to manage the ‘nice to haves’. You could call this the “Never Gonna Happen” list.

GP2/F2: I thought GP2 was great. I stopped about 2012 but I always wanted to go back, carry on from where I left off and run into the F2 era. I don’t even think that’s possible in any legal way. Any idea how I can do this?

IMSA: The one that really bugs me is IMSA Challenge, I still have 5 years under the Conti Tire name, let alone the Michelin Pilot era. Yet I absolutely loved that series back then.

GT3: I feel like I should know what’s going on with all this, particularly the SRO series. In 2023 I watched the 2011 Blancpain GT season and enjoyed it enough to want to catch up some more, it never happened. Blancpain became GTWC Europe, they’ve also expanded to America, Asia, Australia. There’s GT4. And that’s without even talking about DTM, British GT, 24H Series. Is it all worth it? Surely there’s a load of fluff in here?

WTCR: I saw the whole WTCC to the end (yes, including TC1), and the TCR International Series, but when they merged I never touched it. Was that wrong, or right in hindsight? Is the World Tour actually worth bothering with? Nobody ever talks about it, so I assume it isn’t.

NASCAR: I get so frustrated with the deliberate take outs and the whole idea of the playoffs, but it’s an important area of the sport and it’s a complete blind spot for me. I kind of want to go back and explore from the 80s to today, as someone never immersed in it.

WRC: I used to follow it when I could find the free-to-air highlights. Then various Seb’s won everything for years and years and I stopped caring. I have no idea what’s happened for the last decade. I miss it.

For what it’s worth, this is where I got to on the nice-to-haves, a position that hasn’t changed in years. Excluding some live events I dipped into (24h NBR, 12h Bathurst).

GP2/F2: 2013 Sepang;
IMSA Challenge: 2014 Laguna Seca;
IMSA Proto / VP: 2018 Daytona;
SRO IGTC: 2018 Suzuka;
SRO GTWC Europe: 2012 Monza (it was still Blancpain GT back then);
British GT: 2014 Oulton Park;
WTCR / World Tour: 2018 Hungaroring;
24H Series: 2012 Barcelona;

Celebrating Respect In Racing

As 2025 draws to a close, something which has struck me this year is the way competitors appear to respect each other more these days.

This is typified by the F1 title battle this year between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. It all seems very gentlemanly, may the best man win, but still intense. I don’t know that you can say they are the best of mates, but they seem to get on. Clearly they are both competitive and are driven to beat the other one and anyone else.

Large chunks of the F1 press have been very confused by this. They almost have an expectation that being team-mates it would automatically have the hostility of the Ayrton Senna versus Alain Prost days. Or the knife-edge intensity of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in 2016. Or in MotoGP a decade ago when Yamaha had to build a wall in the garage to prevent Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo from even seeing each other. It’s as if they are disappointed this hasn’t manifested in the Norris/Piastri fight. At least, not yet.

And let’s be clear, I love those battles too. Because I think that’s how *I* would be in that situation – angry and petulant. Wouldn’t you be? And for the media it’s obvious isn’t it? Needle sells copy, generates clicks, gets more views. But should we be disappointed?

I don’t think so. Not when there’s genuine camaraderie and respect, and yes, we do see how pissed off they are when things don’t go their way. It’s only boring when there’s no emotion at all. It’s clearly taking an emotional toll. To be able to fight tooth and nail and come out the other side as equals, I think it shows an emotional maturity and resilience that elevates them above their peers who are unable to show such control.

I just finished watching the 2024 BTCC. Yes, I am a year late, what with the 2025 season wrapping up six weeks ago. But in that fight a year ago, entering the final three races on the last day of the season, Tom Ingram and Jake Hill were tied on points. Ingram was very fast in the dry first race. Hill faster in the two wet races. In the decider, Hill raced his way through to the podium and the championship, Ingram fell away to 6th.

Immediately in parc ferme, the respect really made an impression on me. Ingram went straight to Hill’s Dad and gave him a big hug. This was in the background while their other rival, Ash Sutton who won the race, was talking on live TV to Lou Goodman and was simply gushing with praise about Jake (and Tom for that matter). The sheer level of respect between the three of them, and for Colin Turkington too, proved again that you can race hard, you can fight wheel to wheel for the win, over a tough, intense championship, and still come out of it respecting the other. I loved seeing it.

In the 2000s and 2010s pretty much the only place that it felt like you found a collegiate, yet competitive atmosphere, was IndyCar. Specifically led by the group of guys containing Dario Franchitti, Dan Wheldon, Bryan Herta, Tony Kanaan, who were all team-mates at Andretti for a time, but also across the general IndyCar paddock. It also manifested itself in practical jokes – remember when they wrapped Sage Karam’s new Camaro in pink to become the ‘Karamo’? You definitely had some needle between guys who didn’t like each other – look no further than Paul Tracy and Sebastien Bourdais. But on the whole I got the sense that IndyCar was a place where racing at over 220mph on ovals generated a type of bond and respect between competitors that was not present elsewhere. Certainly not in either Formula 1 or NASCAR at the time.

And yet, that side of IndyCar seems a bit lessened these days. I don’t know if that’s because there aren’t so many superspeedways and mile-and-a-half ovals these days, and more street courses and short ovals where you get your elbows out. Or maybe the Penske ‘cheat’ scandal didn’t help – I don’t think Josef Newgarden is thought of as highly as he was among his peers. Or the legal case surrounding Alex Palou and McLaren. Or maybe just the way culture has split along political lines, particularly in the US – certainly this has affected the fan experience. Or that a certain driver gets all the “woo yeah America” from the TV coverage, but other US drivers get none of that, despite being no less American. That’s got to be noticed by the Kirkwoods of the world, right?

Norris and Piastri both know McLaren hasn’t won a Drivers’ title in a long time and neither wants to be the one to throw that away, especially since the summer break when Max Verstappen has been quicker than the pair of them and all of a sudden it looks possible, if unlikely, that he could snatch it from them. And full credit to him, that’s why Max is such a great champion, and why it hurts that he drove questionably in the past when he has the talent to not need to.

Norris knows what it is to troll around in an uncompetitive McLaren, finishing outside the top 10 in points, he has lived experience of it in a way Piastri hasn’t. And of course the rules change completely next year – what if this is the last chance McLaren gets for a while?

Yes there have been times when each of them have been on the wrong side of a team call. Both have gristled at it. Which shows it matters to them. They aren’t robots, as much as the corporate team-speak may try to hide it. Speaking of which, yes, I do think McLaren have been playing it safe with the ‘Papaya Rules’ when they don’t need to be. My instinct is these are big boys and they can sort it out themselves. However, I also understand *why* McLaren are being like this. They have long memories, they see Max coming up fast, they don’t the fastest car to lose the title.

I genuinely don’t think McLaren are favouring Norris or Piastri. McLaren are trying their best and sometimes they get it wrong. That’s sport. Personally, they are trying too hard and can afford to let it go a little more. The one that grates, and certainly pisses off the Piastri fans, is the Monza swap. Norris had a slow stop which dropped him behind his team-mate, McLaren chose to invert the positions. OK a slow stop isn’t fair on Norris, but slow stops are a part of racing, penalising the guy who had a normal stop doesn’t sit right with me. I hope it turns out not to matter in the end, whichever way it goes.

That said, I’d quite like Norris to win it. He’s really stepped up since the summer break. He’s been known as a bottler in some quarters, not without merit sometimes in his career. Yet since September he’s put that to bed, I think his pass on Piastri at the start in Singapore showed that, as we come to the crunch, he wants it more. People criticised him for it, yet I know for sure those same people would’ve cheered Piastri or Verstappen had it been them making the move. And after Monza it is Piastri who has let his head drop, bottled it in a way. I think he’ll bounce back.

And that’s what ex-racers always say. Tim Harvey said as much in the BTCC coverage: they both want it, of course they do, but it’ll come down to who wants it the most in the moment. Who steps up their game and who falls back. You don’t know who it will be until that moment. Neither do the drivers themselves!

It wouldn’t surprise me if, after this season, Norris vs Piastri develops into something more. It might be a career-long rivarly. Whether that’s a healthy respectful rivalry, or something that deteriorates into dislike and worse, only time will tell.

There are three F1 GP weekends remaining. This season has gone from a dominant, controlled Piastri, to a sensational recovery by Verstappen winning 3 races out of 4, to Norris stamping his authority in Mexico and Brazil. Might it turn again in the last three? Has Piastri realised he’s about to lose it and step it up again? Is Norris, already having faced the reality of losing to Verstappen last year, determined to stop it happening again? And we know Verstappen will do anything at all times, you don’t even need to ask the question.

I hope we see a great fight. That it’s an intense one. That it stays a respectful one. That it doesn’t diminish the intensity. It’s just different. And we should celebrate it just the same.

List of Races Affected By Coronavirus / COVID-19

The attempt by authorities to slow and contain the pandemic Coronavirus / Covid-19 has seriously affected the motor sport calendar for 2020.

As drastic as it may seem this is not the ordinary ‘flu (see this sobering tweet) and serious precautions must be taken to protect all those in society.

It may seem frivolous to talk of how it affects the motor racing calendar but at some point this will be over and the pieces will need picking up. It is getting quite hard to keep up with what has been cancelled and rescheduled for later.

This blog post attempts to note every change.

At the time of first writing (13th March) it is hard to predict how long this will last. What at first seemed like a 2-4 week interruption is fast becoming something much bigger. It is becoming clear all events will be cancelled in the rest of March, all of April, most of May and probably into June. The consequence will be a lot of rescheduled events from August to December, some later events made double-headers, but also a lot of outright cancellations with no make-up races.

I am updating IWTMR Google/iCal Calendars often.

I am in the process of relisting races here in order of their rescheduled dates with cancellations underneath.

This post will be updated.

Last updated:  Thursday 18th June 2020

Formula 1

Austrian Grand Prix – 5th July, becomes opening round behind closed doors, date unchanged..

Styrian Grand Prix – 12th July. New 2nd race at the Red Bull Ring.

Hungarian Grand Prix – 19th July. Swaps places with Silverstone to provide ease of travel for teams.

British Grand Prix – 2nd August. Swaps places with Hungaroring.

F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix – 9th August. New 2nd race at Silverstone celebrating the 70th anniversary of the World Championship.

Spanish Grand Prix – 16th August. Originally 10th May.

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Bahrain Grand Prix – Postponed (TBC). Originally 22nd March.

French Grand Prix – Postponed (TBC). Originally 28th June.

Australian Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 15th March, Postponed on race weekend. McLaren withdrew after a team member tested positive, race postponed a day later.

Vietnam Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 5th April.

Chinese Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 19th April.

Dutch Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 3rd May.

Monaco Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 24th May.

Azerbaijan Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 7th June.

Canadian Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 14th June.

Singapore Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 20th September.

Japanese Grand Prix – Cancelled. Originally 11th October.

 

Formula E

Some races may be rescheduled later, more likely other rounds will be made double-headers.

Berlin ePrix – Will host the entirety of the 2nd half of the season in the space of 9 days utilising 3 layouts. These will be:
Wednesday 5th August – layout 1;
Thursday 6th August – layout 1;
Saturday 8th August – layout 2;
Sunday 9th August – layout 2;
Wednesday 12th August – layout 3;
Thursday 13th August – layout 3;

Sanya ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 21st March.

Rome ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 4th April.

Paris ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 18th April.

Seoul ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 2nd May.

Jakarta ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 6th June.

New York ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 11th July.

London ePrix – Cancelled. Originally 25th & 26th July.

 

MotoGP

Qatar GP – Moto2 and Moto3 races ran as planned with teams already on site. MotoGP class cancelled.

Spanish GP (Jerez) – 19th July. Originally 3rd May.

Andalucia GP (Jerez) – 26th July. 2nd race at Jerez.

Czech GP – 9th August. No change.

Austrian GP – 16th August. No change.

Styrian GP (Spielberg) – 23rd August. 2nd race at Red Bull Ring.

San Marino GP (Misano) – 13th September. No change.

Emilia Romagna GP (Misano) – 20th September. 2nd race at Misano.

Catalan GP – 27th September. Originally 7th June.

French GP – 11th October. Originally 17th May.

Aragon GP – 18th October.

Teruel GP (Aragon) – 25th October.

European GP (Valencia) – 8th November. 2nd race at Valencia, ahead of the ‘primary’ Valencia GP.

Valencia GP – 15th November. Back on its original date.

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Thailand GP – TBC

US GP – TBC

Argentina GP – TBC

Malaysia GP – TBC

Italian GP (Mugello) – Cancelled.

German GP – Cancelled.

Dutch GP – Cancelled.

Finland GP – Cancelled.

British GP – Cancelled.

 

World SBK

Jerez – 24/25 October. Originally 28/29 March.

Aragon – 29/30 August. Originally 23/24 May.

France – 3/4 October. Originally 26/27 September. Moved to avoid MotoGP’s new schedule.

Misano – 7/8 November. Originally 13/14 June.

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Assen – Postponed. Originally 18/19 April.

Qatar – Cancelled. Originally 13/14 March.

Imola – Cancelled. Originally 9/10 May.

 

BSB

Silverstone – Postponed. Originally 12th April.

Oulton Park – Postponed. Originally 3rd May.

Donington Park – Postponed. Originally 24th May.

Snetterton – Postponed. Originally 21st June.

 

IndyCar

The entire Indy Lights season has been cancelled for 2020.

Revised dates for IndyCar:

Texas – 6th June. Season scheduled to begin here, race date unchanged.

Indy GP – 4th July. Originally 9th May. Postponed to 4th July NASCAR Cup weekend. NASCAR Xfinity will also race the road course.

Road America x2 – 11th & 12th July double-header. Delayed from 21st June with a make-up race added on the Saturday.

Iowa x2 – 17th & 18th July double-header. Second race added on Friday 17th.

Mid-Ohio – 9th August. Rescheduled by one week from 16th August to make way for Indy 500 qualifying.

Indy 500 – 23rd August. Originally 24th May. Qualifying will be 15th/16th August.

Gateway – 30th August. Originally 23rd August, delayed to make way for Indy.

Portland – 13th September. Originally 6th September.

Laguna Seca – 19th & 20th September double-header. Second race added on Saturday.

Harvest Grand Prix – 3rd October. New event at IMS road course on the bill with the inaugural SRO Intercontinental GT 8 Hours of Indianapolis.

St Pete – 25th October. Originally 15th March.

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Barber – Cancelled. Originally 5th April.

Long Beach – Cancelled. Originally 19th April.

Detroit Belle Isle Double-Header – Cancelled. Originally 30th & 31st May.

Richmond – Cancelled. Originally 27th June.

Toronto – Cancelled. Originally 12th July.

 

NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Trucks

NASCAR has set up a plan to race at tracks local to most of the teams, starting with races at Darlington and Charlotte. The Coke 600 remains in place. The Darlington races will have no effect on the September race. Many of these are replacement races.

Darlington 400 – Cup – Sunday 17th May.
Darlington 200 – Xfinity – Tuesday 19th May.
Darlington 500km – Cup – Wednesday 20th May.

Charlotte Coco-Cola 600 – Cup – Sunday 24th May. This is the original date.
Charlotte 300 – Xfinity – Monday 25th May. Originally 17th May.
Charlotte 200 – Trucks – Tuesday 26th May.
Charlotte 500km – Cup – Wednesday 27th May.

Bristol – Xfinity – Saturday 30th May. Originally 4th April.
Bristol – Cup – Sunday 31st May. Originally 5th April.

Atlanta – Trucks – Saturday 6th June. Originally 13th March.
Atlanta – Xfinity – Saturday 6th June. Originally 14th March.
Atlanta – Cup – Sunday 7th June. Originally 15th March.

Martinsville – Cup – Wednesday 10th June. Originally 10th May.

Homestead – Trucks – 13th June. Originally 20th March.
Homestead – Xfinity – 13th June. Originally 21st March.
Homestead – Xfinity – 14th June. New race.
Homestead – Cup – 14th June. Originally 22nd March.

Talledega – Xfinity – 20th June. Originally 25th April.
Talledega – Cup – 21st June. Originally 26th April.

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Texas – Cup/Xfinity/Trucks – Postponed. Originally 27-29 March.

Richmond – Cup/Trucks – Postponed. Originally 18-19 April.

Dover – Cup/Xfinity/Trucks – Postponed. Originally 1-3 May.

Martinsville – Cup – Postponed. Originally 9th May.

All-Star – Cancelled. Originally 17th May.

FIA WEC

1000 Miles of Sebring – 20th March – Cancelled.

Le Mans Test Day – 31st May – Cancelled.

6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps – 25th April – Postponed to 15th August.

24 Hours of Le Mans – 13-14 June – Postponed, rescheduled for 19-20 September (originally the weekend of Spa ELMS).

Bahrain 8 Hours – 5th December – Rescheduled to 21st November and becomes the season finale of the current 2019/20 season. Effectively replaces 2020 Sebring and maintains 8 rounds.

2021/2022 Season – Silverstone, Monza, Fuji and Kylami – All cancelled.
Bahrain moved to current season. Season will start in March.

A new 2021 schedule will be announced a later time and will run in a calendar year as it used to.

 

IMSA WTSC

Daytona 2h40m – 4th July. New race.

Sebring 2h40m – 18th July. New race.

Mosport is cancelled.

Road America and VIR are unchanged.

Laguna Seca – 6th September. Originally 13th September.

Mid-Ohio – 27th September. Originally 3rd May.

Watkins Glen – 4th October. Originally 28th June

Petit Le Mans – 18th October. Originally 11th October.

Lime Rock – 31st October. Originally 19th July.

12 Hours of Sebring – 14th November. Originally 21st March.

Long Beach – Cancelled. Originally 18th April.

Detroit Belle Isle – Cancelled. Originally 30th May.

 

ELMS and Le Mans Cup

4h Paul Ricard – 19th July – No change. Becomes Round 1 with pre-season testing at the same venue the week before.

4h Spa-Francorchamps – 9th August. Originally 20th September.

4h Barcelona – 29th August. Originally 5th April.

4h Monza – 11th October. Originally 10th May..

4h Silverstone – Cancelled. Originally 6th September.

 

Asian Le Mans Series

4h Buriram 1 – 9th January 2021. No change.
4h Buriram 2 – 11th January 2021. New race added just 2 days later.

4h Sepang 1 – 23rd January 2021. No change.
4h Sepang 2 – 26th January 2021. New race added just 3 days later.

4h Suzuka – Cancelled. Originally 29th November 2020.

4h Shanghai – Cancelled. Originally 13th December 2020.

 

DTM

New schedule released in the first week of June, it is totally different all versions released previously and is as follows. All other previously-announced rounds are cancelled.

Spa – 2nd August.

Lausitzring – 16th August.

Lausitzring – 23rd August.

Assen – 6th September.

Nürburging GP – 13th September.

Nürburging Sprint – 20th September.

Zolder – 11th October.

Zolder – 18th October.

Hockenheimring – 8th November.

 

Super GT

New 8 round schedule released in the first week of June.

Fuji – 19th July.

Fuji – 9th August.

Suzuka – 23rd August.

Motegi – 20th September.

Fuji – 4th October.

Suzuka – 25th October.

Motegi – 8th November.

Fuji – 29th November.

 

Super Formula

Suzuka – 14th November (Saturday). Joins the weekend of the existing final round on 15th November for a double-header. Originally 5th April.

Fuji – Postponed, date TBC. Originally 19th April.

Autopolis – Postponed, date TBC. Originally 17th May.

Sugo – Postponed, date TBC. Originally 12st June.

 

GT World Challenge Europe

Imola 3H (Endurance) – 26th July. New race on the original date of the Spa 24 Hours.

Misano (Sprint) – 9th August. Postponed from 6th July. 3rd 1-hour race added.

Nurburgring 6H (Endurance) – 6th September. Race extended to 6 hours from 3.

Magny-Cours (Sprint) – 13th September. New race.

Zandvoort (Sprint) – 27th September. Postponed from 28th June and replaces the Hungaroring round.

Barcelona (Sprint) – 11th October. 3rd 1-hour race added.

Spa 24H (Endurance & IGTC) – 24th-25th October. Postponed from 25th-26th July.

Paul Ricard 1000km (Endurance) – 14th November. Postponed from 30th May.

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Monza 3H (Endurance) – Cancelled. Originally 19th April.

Brands Hatch (Sprint) – Cancelled. Originally 3rd May.

Silverstone 3H (Endurance) – Cancelled. Originally 10th May.

 

GT World Challenge America

Virginia – 11/12 July  – Moved. Was 6/7 June.

Sonoma, Road America, Watkins Glen, Indianapolis – No change and will run on original dates.

Mosport – Cancelled. Was 16/17 May.

GT World Challenge Asia

Sepang – 12/13 September. Rescheduled from March.

Shanghai 888 – 18 October. GTWC Asia’s first 3-hour race.

China – 31 Oct / 1 Nov – New round added, venue not announced.

Sepang – 5/6 December.

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Fuji – Cancelled. Was 23/24 May.

Suzuka – Cancelled. Was 21/22 June.

Autopolis – Cancelled. Was 11/12 August.

 

24H Series

12H Monza – 28th March – Postponed, rescheduled for 11th July.
A replacement race at Estoril scheduled for 28th March was itself cancelled.

12H Paul Ricard – 11th July – Cancelled and replaced with Monza.

 

GT Open

Paul Ricard – 26th April – Postponed to 23rd August.

 

Supercars

Sydney – 27-28 June. Moved forward from August and made a day race – the SuperNight format will be used at this venue in December.

Winton – 18-19 July. Originally 6-7 June.

Hidden Valley – 8-9 August. Originally 18-19 July.

Townsville – 29-30 August. Originally 27-28 June.

Sandown – 19-20 September.

Bathurst 1000 – 11 October, no change.

Perth – 31 Oct – 1 Nov. Was 16-17 May.

Symmons Plains – 21-22 November. Originally 4-5 April.

Sydney SuperNight – 5-6 December. New race to replace Newcastle, using the night racing format originally scheduled for August.

Melbourne – Cancelled. Originally 13-15 March.

Hampton Downs – Cancelled. Originally 25-26 April.

The Bend – Cancelled. Originally 19-20 September.

Newcastle – Cancelled. Originally 5-6 December.

 

WTCR

Salzburgring – 13th September. 2 races.

Nurburgring Nordschliefe – 26th September. 2 races alongside N24.

Slovakiaring – 11th October. 3 races.

Hungaroring – 18th October. 3 races.

Aragon – 1st November. 3 races.

Adria – 15th November. New venue, 3 races.

Vila Real – Cancelled. Originally 21st June.

Ningbo – Cancelled. Originally 20th September.

Macau – Cancelled. Originally 22nd November.

Sepang – Cancelled. Originally 13th December.

 

BTCC

Season due to begin at Donington in August. One Silverstone meeting dropped.

Donington Park – 2nd August. Originally 29th March.

Brands Hatch (Indy) – 9th August. Originally 12th April.

Oulton Park – 23rd August. Originally 14th June.

Knockhill – 30th August. No change. Becomes rounds 10/11/12.

Thruxton – 20th September. Originally 17th May.

Silverstone (National) – 27th September. Originally 26th April. The date at the International track has been rescheduled to the National track. There will only be one visit to Silverstone.

Croft – 11th October. Originally 16th August.

Snetterton – 25th October. Originally 26th June.

Brands Hatch (GP) – 15th November. Originally 11th October.

 

British GT

Oulton Park – 13th April (Easter Monday) – Postponed.

Snetterton – 17th May – Postponed.

Silverstone 500 – 7th June – Postponed.

Donington Park – 21st June – Postponed.

 

VLN NLS

VLN 1 – 21st March – Cancelled.

VLN 2 – 4th April – Cancelled.

VLN 8 – 26th September – Date taken by the rescheduled N24. I’ve not yet seen whether VLN8 will be rescheduled.

 

WRC World Rally Championship

Currently only three rounds have not been altered, two have been postponed but not yet rescheduled and five have been cancelled. There is talk the WRC may join the European Championship at some events.

No change:

Turkey – 24-27 August.

Germany – 15-18 October.

Japan – 19-22 November.

Postponed TBC or Cancelled:

Argentina – Postponed. Was 23-26 April.

Italy – Postponed. Was 4-7 June.

Portugal – Cancelled. Was 20-24 May.

Safari – Cancelled. Was 16-19 July.

Finland – Cancelled. Was 6-9 August.

New Zealand – Cancelled. Was 3-6 September.

Great Britain – Cancelled. Was 29 Oct – 1 Nov.

 

European Rally Championship

Roma-Capitale – 24-26 July, no change.

Liepāja – 14-16 August, was 29-31 May.

Czech – 28-30 August, no change.

Azores – 17-19 September, was 27-29 March.

Cyprus – 16-18 October, delayed by one week.

Hungary – 6-8 November, no change.

Canary Isles – 26-28 November, was 8-10 May.

Poland – Cancelled.

 

World Rallycross

Sweden – 22-23 August, was 5 July.

Finland – 29-30 August, new round.

Latvia – 19-20 September, no change.

Belgium – 2-4 October, was 17 May.

Portugal – 9-11 October, was 3 May.

Spain – 16-18 October, was 19 April.

UAE – 30-31 October, no change.

Germany – 11-13 December, was 2 August.

Norway – Cancelled.

France – Cancelled.

South Africa – Cancelled.

 

NHRA

GatorNationals – 15th March – Postponed.

Las Vegas – 5th April – Postponed.

 

Other

Nurburgring 24 Hours – 26-27 September. Originally 23-24 May.

N24 Qualifying Race – Cancelled. Originally 25th April.

Goodwood Festival of Speed – Cancelled. Originally 10th-12th July.

Isle of Man TT – Cancelled.

Motorsport UK has cancelled all organising permits until the end of June, meaning no motorsport can take place in the UK until after that date.

2020 Race Schedules for Google Calendar & iCal

In order to watch too much racing you will need to know when it happens.

In order to watch too much racing you will need to know when it happens.

Keep up with your favourite racing series by adding my Calendars to your Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, or other service which supports ICAL or HTML format.

Just click the link for the race schedule you want to import and it will appear in your calendar in your browser or on your phone.

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Go here for details:

www.toomuchracing.com/calendar

Lastly, I would like to say a huge thank you to the people who have kindly donated!

I have a Paypal tip jar on the top right of the blog which is aimed at covering my site hosting fees and domain name registrations for the year. These aren’t big, just a basic WordPress.com blog plus some domain names.

I’m astonished people pay at all, let alone anything more than £2, I know acutely there are far more worthy causes than this. It does encourage me to put in the work through a dark dingy autumn and winter, so thank you.

I’m pleased to say thanks to you I’ve covered my fees and enough to keep me in cups of tea for the year as well.

[This is a pinned post on the main blog to direct traffic, please click through to the Calendar page for more details including upload schedule.]