Calendar change: Texas out, Brazil in

Autosport are reporting that A1GP has dropped the San Antonio race for this season (although it could be on future year's races).

http://www.autosport-atlas.com/news.aspx?id=46602&g=1

Brazil will now hold a race at Curitiba (http://www.racingcircuits.net/Brazil/index.html). A great idea, I think it adds to the series having a race in Brazil.

Absolutely.

Looks like a nice layout too!

Very sensible.

I suspect the Brazilian team lobbied for that move.



Here's the calendar:

Brands Hatch, Great Britain September 25
Eurospeedway, Germany October 9
Estoril, Portugal October 23
Eastern Creek, Australia November 6
Sepang, Malaysia November 20
Dubai Autodrome, UAE December 11
Sentul, Indonesia January 15
Durban Street Race, South Africa January 29
Curitiba, Brazil February 12
Monterrey, Mexico February 26
Laguna Seca, USA March 19
Shanghai, China April 2



I expect we'll now get confirmation that the UAE has a car in the series - every other country with a race has a team.

Thats now every continent with a race, This is truly the world cup of motorsport. Bring on Brands

Also now on SPEED (http://www.speedtv.com/articles/roadracing/auto/19238/)

So for those that don't subscribe to Autosport.

A1GP’s provisional calendar, released back in May, carried a few iffy points, most notably perhaps the proposition of a street race in San Antonio, Texas, a venue untried by the USA’s own open-wheel series.

And while A1 officials insist the Texan street race will eventually come to fruition, San Antonio has been replaced by Brazil’s Curitiba road course in the series’ revised calendar, set to be confirmed later this week, according to Autosport-Atlas.

After drifting into oblivion in the ’80s, the track in Curitiba - a city of 1.5 million located 250 miles south of Sao Paulo - was completely renovated in 1995 and currently ranks as one of Brazil’s top motorsport facilities. Besides hosting all of the country’s major road-racing championships, the circuit held a World Series by Nissan event back in 2002.