{"id":15269,"date":"2023-08-05T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2023-08-04T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:48:13","slug":"formula-2-announces-2024-calendar-qatar-in-and-zandvoort-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/08\/05\/formula-2-announces-2024-calendar-qatar-in-and-zandvoort-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 2 announces 2024 calendar: Qatar in and Zandvoort out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2024 FIA Formula 2 calendar has been announced. The number of races remains unchanged, but there is a new circuit on the list.<\/h3>\n<p>The season will include 14 races that will take place simultaneously with the Formula 1 Championship.<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2022\/12\/03\/formula-2-ceo-a-safer-car-more-like-f1-for-the-2024-season\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a0The 2024 season<\/a> will begin in <strong>Bahrain<\/strong> on February 29 \u2013 March 02; As in Formula 1, the Feature Race will be held on Sunday to accommodate Ramadan. The same thing will happen the following weekend in <strong>Jeddah<\/strong> on March 07-09.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, the last race of the month will take place in <strong>Australia<\/strong> on March 22-24.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Introducing our Formula 2 calendar for 2024! \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#F2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NWsy3vdDtb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NWsy3vdDtb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 2 (@Formula2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Formula2\/status\/1687439661684215808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>European races<\/h4>\n<p>In May , after almost a month off, the F2 goes back to its birthplace. The first European race will be in <strong>Imola<\/strong> (17-19 May). In 2023, due to a weather emergency in the region, the GP was canceled.The second weekend with consecutive races begins in the jewel of the Mediterranean, <strong>Monte Carlo,<\/strong> on May 23-25.<\/p>\n<p>Then begins two of the most stressful months for the young drivers with three races back-to-back. The first is in<strong> Spain<\/strong> (June 21-24) to move to the complex circuit of <strong>Spielberg<\/strong> (June 28-30). The last one is <strong>Silverstone<\/strong> (July 05-07).<\/p>\n<p>Round 9 will be held in <strong>Hungary<\/strong> (July 19-21), and the last races before the summer break will be in<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/07\/27\/is-spa-worth-lives\/\" target=\"_self\"> <strong>Belgium<\/strong> <\/a>on July 26-28.\u00a0The drivers will be back in their single-seaters in <strong>Monza<\/strong> on August 30 \u2013 September 01.<\/p>\n<p>After the changes to the 2024 Formula 1 calendar, the <strong>Azerbaijan<\/strong> GP has been moved from April to September 13-15. An autumn break of more than two months will follow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A new venue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The biggest change in the 2024 calendar is the addition of a new circuit for Formula 2. The field will follow Formula 1 in <strong>Qatar<\/strong> on November 29 to December 1, and it will compete for the first time in the circuit of Lusail. The new venue is going to replace the Zandvoort circuit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stefano Domenicali, President and CEO of Formula 1, has praised the success of the Formula 2 Championship. He has also commented on the addition of a new circuit, saying:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe breadth of venues and the addition of Qatar is another sign of the strength and interest in F2 globally and the talent we have in the Championship is very positive for the future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The season, as every year since 2013, will end in <strong>Abu Dhabi<\/strong> on December 06-08, concurrently with the season finale of Formula 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 FIA Formula 2 calendar has been announced. The number of races remains unchanged, but there is a new circuit on the list. The season will include 14 races that will take place simultaneously with the Formula 1 Championship.\u00a0The 2024 season will begin in Bahrain on February 29 \u2013 March 02; As in Formula 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4754,"featured_media":15281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,544],"tags":[1549,511,894,542,74,989,1621,1548,540,120,1528,132,914,964,1847],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-formula-2","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-australian-grand-prix","tag-azerbaijan-gp","tag-bahrain-gp","tag-belgian-grand-prix","tag-hungarian-gp","tag-imola","tag-jeddah","tag-monaco-grand-prix","tag-monza","tag-qatar","tag-silverstone","tag-spain","tag-spielberg","tag-stefano-domenicali"],"modified_by":"Vincent van der Hoek","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}