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F1 scraps races in the US, Mexico and South Korea
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Races in New Jersey, Mexico and South Korea were dropped from Formula One’s official 2014 calendar yesterday, with the season remaining at 19 races instead of a record 22.
All three races had been listed provisionally on a previous calendar published in September by the sport’s governing International Automobile Federation (FIA).
None appeared on the final version issued yesterday after a meeting of the FIA’s World Motor Sports Council in Paris.
New Jersey’s Grand Prix of the Americas, with New York’s skyscraper skyline as a backdrop, had been due for a debut this year but it had to be postponed due to financial issues.
Mexico would have been making its return in November after a 22-year absence but there have been doubts over the readiness of the Mexico City track.
The poorly attended Korean race — one of the least popular among Formula One’s traveling fraternity — has sustained heavy financial losses.
Organizers, whose race at Yeongam in the far south was due to be moved from October to April, had sought a contract re-negotiation with the sport’s hard-nosed commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
India has also been axed from the 2014 calendar.
(Reuters)
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