System One won’t change the cancelled Russian Grand Prix this yr, that means the present season will characteristic 22 races as a substitute of a report 23.

Russia’s Sep. 25 race in Sochi was cancelled after the nation’s navy invasion of Ukraine in February.

The hole on the calendar had remained vacant since and the idea was F1 was eager to interchange it with one other occasion.

There had been hypothesis Singapore, the host of the next’s week’s occasion on Oct. 2, might fill the hole and maintain two races throughout two weeks.

A number of venues did just like fill gaps within the schedule throughout F1’s 2020 season, held on the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It’s understood F1 had curiosity from a number of potential hosts however opted in opposition to including a brand new race because of the added prices of doing so.

European Union freight guidelines would have sophisticated any European choice so near a ‘flyaway’ race in Asia.

The dimensions of the present schedule and considerations on the workload one other occasion would place on groups is believed to have been a mitigating consider not discovering a brand new host for that weekend.

Except for August’s summer time break, the 2 week hole between the Italian Grand Prix on Sep. 11 and the Singapore Grand Prix on Oct. 2 is now the longest break between races this season.

This season finishes sooner than regular as F1 was eager to keep away from a conflict with the World Cup. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will shut the season on Nov. 20, a day earlier than the opening recreation in Qatar.

F1 is ready for 23 races subsequent season, with Qatar returning as a number and the primary ever Las Vegas Grand Prix becoming a member of for an evening race on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Had it gone forward, the 2022 race would have been the final held on the Sochi Autodrom.