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FIA Motorsport Games rescheduled, will Formula 1 also follow?
- GPblog.com
For the time being we don't know anything about Formula 1, but other events are slowly getting a new date. For example, the new championship; FIA Motorsport Games has been postponed by a year.
The FIA Motorsport Games is an initiative of the FIA, in which countries compete against each other for medals. There are several classes with international drivers. Six disciplines are at stake: GT, Touring cars, Formula 4, Driften, Karting, Slalom and the digital competition.
Profit for the Netherlands
The championship was originally scheduled to be held in 2020 at the end of the year. 23, 24 and 25 October, the circuit of Paul Ricard was dominated by the Motorsport Games, but that will now be postponed by a year. The event will now be held in 2021 on 22, 23 and 24 October of that year.
October is still far away and the event might have made it, but Jean Todt mentions in the statement on the website that they want to prepare better and that the event should therefore be postponed. The event will take place again in Marseille, with all the action on Paul Ricard's track.
In 2019 was the first edition of the FIA Motorsport Games at the ACI Vallelunga Circuit in Rome. The event was then held in November and saw Russia as a big winner with three medals. The Netherlands took one medal, but that was immediately gold. Participants for the Netherlands were then Tom Coronel, Nina Pothof, Bastiaan van Loenen and Leon Ackerman.