22 January 2021 Archives

Barber pushed back one week

Friday January 22nd, 2021Friday January 22nd, 2021 Jens Jensen

The opening round of the NTT IndyCar Series at Barber Motorsports Park will be pushed back one week. The organizers have chosen to move the race to Sunday 18 April. The Indycar drivers will now have to do four races in three consecutive weekends, since the St. Petersburg race, which originally was the opening round of 2021, was moved to 25 April. The change from 11 to 18 April will put the race on NBC in the USA, since the 18 April was the original date for the Long Beach…

Opening round moves to Portugal

Friday January 22nd, 2021 Jens Jensen

The FIA World Endurance Championship season 2021 won’t be starting at Sebring, Florida anyway. Due to the COVID-19 situation and the travel restrictions surrounding, ACO and LMEM have chosen to move the opening round to the Portimao circuit in Portugal. This will be the first time for Autodromo do Algarve to host an FIA WEC race, but has become a fixed part of the European Le Mans Series. The undulating track usually delivers some amazing race, but we still haven’t seen the new Hypercar category race along with LMP2 and…