A recent report claims that a Grand Prix scheduled for 2024 is “seriously threatened” to be replaced as early as next year.
Proposals from other countries to be added to the calendar in the upcoming seasons are being actively discussed by the FIA.
Rwanda made a ‘serious’ bid to host an F1 Grand Prix on a new permanent track, according to information that Motorsport.com disclosed earlier this month.
Leading motorsport representatives from the nation are rumoured to have discussed with the FIA during the Monaco Grand Prix and plan to do so again in September. Since the 1993 South African Grand Prix, Formula One has not competed in an African race.
How many countries have made the bid?
According to BBC Sport’s Andrew Benson, Thailand is currently ‘under serious consideration’ to host a Grand Prix.
Despite having an active F1 driver in Alex Albon, the Southeast Asian nation has never hosted a Grand Prix. Born in London to a Thai mother, Albon decided to race Formula One for his country.
South Korea is the other nation that is eager to be included in the calendar.
Due to contractual and financial difficulties, the Korean Grand Prix, which had been hosted at the Yeongnam International Circuit from 2010 to 2013, was terminated.
Benson asserts that the well-liked Canadian Grand Prix, hosted in Montreal, is an unexpected contender to be completely removed from the schedule.
He writes: “Canada is under serious threat even for next year because the organisation is considered to have fallen below standards in recent years, and Montreal is under pressure to improve that.”
Since 1967, the Canadian Grand Prix has been a part of the Formula One World Championship; however, it was absent in 1975, 1984, and 2009.
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused it to be cancelled in 2020 and 2021 as well, but other than that, it has always been scheduled.
It has been held at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve since 1978, and was renamed in 1982 after the Ferrari driver died in a qualifying crash in Zolder earlier that year.
Although it has long been a favourite location for F1 spectators, drivers, and influential people, it has recently come under increasing scrutiny.
