Baku GP rejects date swap, putting Turkish race in jeopardy

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Baku GP rejects date swap, putting Turkish race in jeopardy

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Baku GP rejects date swap, putting Turkish race in jeopardy

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix is unable to move its date to help ease travel issues for Formula 1 teams surrounding the following race in Turkey, amid ongoing uncertainty that the latter event will happen.

F1 announced the Turkish Grand Prix as Canada’s replacement only last month following the cancellation of the race in Montreal due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, last week Turkey was put on the UK’s “red” travel list, meaning all those returning from the country would have to quarantine in government hotels for 10 days.

As the pair form a back-to-back pairing on June 6 and 13 respectively, if Turkey was switched to take place before Baku (pictured above in 2019) then F1 personnel staying in Azerbaijan for 10 days would be able to avoid the strict quarantine when returning to the UK. But after brief discussions regarding such a move, Baku City Circuit executive director Arif Rahimov says that solution is not possible.

“There were talks but in our case our race weekend date is really fixed,” Rahimov said. “It was kind of squeezed in between all of the other events that are happening in the city because the football (Euro 2020) is still going ahead, and the first game will be on June 12, which is on the Saturday following the race weekend.
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Can't the Turkish race move to the end of the summer break or something?
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Yep, tell them to feck arf. Not Baku's fault the calendar is fuller than the Tokyo metro
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Agreed!
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It looks like Turkey is off. F1 announced on their Facebook page that we will have two back to back races at the A1 Ring again.
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Yeah discussed in the 2021 season thread.

I was all for multiple races at the same track when we were scraping a calendar together.. but would 22 races really not be enough..? Are they trying to protect against unforeseen possibilities..?

I guess I wouldn't be able to blame them for that.
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Circuitmaster wrote: 2 years ago Yeah discussed in the 2021 season thread.

I was all for multiple races at the same track when we were scraping a calendar together.. but would 22 races really not be enough..? Are they trying to protect against unforeseen possibilities..?

I guess I wouldn't be able to blame them for that.
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