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F1 scraps races in the US, Mexico and South Korea

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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