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The information needs official confirmation, by the championship promoter, but the Portimão Circuit and the Portuguese Grand Prix, after many indecisions, both due to the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in our country and the demand for support public. For the organization of the race, they were even included in the calendar of the 2021 World Cup. The race will be held on May 2, a vacant date in the championship!
Tomorrow, during a meeting of the Formula 1 Commission, the promoter of the World Cup, Liberty Media, will communicate the decision to the 10 teams participating in the championship. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) agrees with an optimistic plan, as it is (very) confident in the success of Portugal to win the fight against COVID-19, controlling the pandemic, during the next few weeks. Currently, there are many restrictions to travel to our country from the United Kingdom, where the headquarters of most of the teams participating in the championship are located.
But despite the fact that quarantine is mandatory on return trips to the UK from Portugal, a country that includes the British Red List of restrictions, today, even the risk of prison sentences for everyone is known. Citizens residing in Great Britain and Northern Ireland who hide trips to our country – the Portuguese Grand Prix will take place seven days before the Spanish one, which means that the teams will travel directly, from Portimão to Barcelona and, with the intention of , returning to bases more than 10 days after passing through the Algarve, which eliminates the need for 10 days of isolation in a hotel on the return to England.
Tomorrow, in addition to communicating the decision on the final version of the 2021 calendar, the Formula 1 Commission will also decide on the (experimental) introduction of ‘sprint’ races in some stages of the World Championship, on the eve of the grand prix. and the engine development freeze in 2022, the year of the debut of a new generation car in Formula 1.
The Portuguese Grand Prix, after abandoning the possibility of repeating Sakhir’s on April 4, just a week after the start of the season, on the same circuit, in Bahrain, will be the third of the 2021 World Cup. Before, on April 18 April, in Imola, will be held, for the second consecutive year, that of Emilia-Romagna (Italy). This year, in the 72nd edition of the championship, race record: 23.
Until May 2, at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve (AIA), as A BOLA reported at the time, two more very popular races: the 8 Hours of Portimão, the first stage of the 2021 World Endurance Championship (WEC) , a ‘marathon’ that has the particularity of coinciding with the debut of hypercars in the main category of the championship, replacing the LMP1, and the Portuguese Motorcycle Grand Prix, with the 3rd round of MotoGP 2021, which will start on March 28 at Losail in Qatar. The first is scheduled for April 4 and the second for April 10.
For the moment, the biggest doubt is the presence of the public in the AIA stands, both in WEC, MotoGP or Formula 1.
