F1: India Part Of 20-Race 2011 Schedule

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F1: India Part Of 20-Race 2011 Schedule

A 20-race Formula One schedule for 2011 was revealed on Wednesday...

Adam Cooper | http://www.speedtv.com | Posted September 08, 2010 Balen (BEL)

The 2011 season finale is scheduled to be held in Brazil. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

The Indian GP has been given an end-of-season date for 2011, as usual pending the homologation of the new circuit in Delhi, as the 2011 Formula One schedule was announced on Wednesday.

The season will also have an unusually late end, on Nov. 27 in Brazil.

However, Bernie Ecclestone has not to shuffled around the other flyaway races so the season will end with an unprecedented run of six events outside Europe. He has, however, taken the logical option of putting Japan and Korea back to back, which is not the case this year.

Brazil has replaced Abu Dhabi as the last race, presumably for the very obvious reason that India and Abu Dhabi are very close on the map.

Australia now stands alone, two weeks ahead of Malaysia, which makes little logistical sense for team personnel. However, the later race is at least now placed back to back with China.

2011 F1 World Championship
3/13 Bahrain
3/27 Australia
4/10 Malaysia
4/17 China
5/8 Turkey
5/22 Spain
5/29 Monaco
6/12 Canada
6/26 Europe
7/10 Great Britain
7/24 Germany
7/31 Hungary
8/28 Belgium
9/11 Italy
9/25 Singapore
10/9 Japan
10/16 Korea
10/30 India*
11/13 Abu Dhabi
11/27 Brazil

Adam Cooper notched up his 25th season as a racing journalist in 2009. Born in London, England, he saw his first F1 race at age 10 in 1976. He began freelancing for Autosport magazine in 1985 and was on the fulltime staff from 1987-92. He then went freelance again, initially spending two years in Japan before following the 1994 Champcar series from a base in Indianapolis. He has not missed a Grand Prix since Suzuka ‘94, a run that has extended to Abu Dhabi ’09. Adam has written books about Eddie Irvine, Piers Courage and Michael Schumacher and hosts a race preview show on Sirius XM. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Check out Adam's Blog or follow him on Twitter

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