F1 announces the 2022 calendar, with Imola in and China out

The Formula One calendar for 2022 has been revealed, however the 23-race calendar does not include the Chinese Grand Prix.

A draft schedule for next season was announced following a meeting of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Friday.

The calendar was put together in the hopes of a more typical season, starting with the season opener in Bahrain on March 20 and ending with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 20.

After the coronavirus pandemic caused chaos on the previous two campaigns, F1 plans to bring back races that haven’t taken place in the last two years, such as the Australian, Canadian, Japanese, and Singapore Grands Prix.

However, because to the uncertainty surrounding China’s travel restrictions, F1 has no plans to return to Shanghai for the time being.

F1 said in a statement that it hoped the Chinese Grand Prix will be restarted “as soon as conditions allow.”

Imola will return to the schedule in place of China, with the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix scheduled for April 24.

The first grand prix in Formula One will be held in Miami on May 8, and it will be held between Imola and the Spanish Grand Prix on May 22.

There will be two triple-header runs due to the intensity of the schedule and the need to complete it before the football World Cup in November.

Teams have accepted that they are a necessary evil if F1 is to offer as conventional a calendar as possible, despite their reluctance to become a norm for three races in a row.

Teams must agree the calendar as part of the Concorde Agreement arrangements that govern the sport, which they have done.

McLaren had been loud about its wish for no triple headers at all, although team principal Andreas Seidl recently stated that he hoped things could be cut back in the long run.

“It’s the reality we are in at the moment,” he said. “It’s also great to see that actually, there is a lot of interest in Formula 1, that different markets are interested in it

“We also understand that going hopefully towards a different calendar in the long term, it’s a process of transition.

“But generally our position hasn’t changed. For us, we are in favour of a race calendar of maximum 20 races. I think that also on the commercial side the focus on quality and exclusivity works.”

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