Turkey loses Formula 1 calendar place, second Austria race added. Turkey loses Formula 1 calendar place.

Formula 1’s early-summer schedule has been reshuffled with the Turkish GP withdrawn from its planned June slot and a second race in Austria added later in the month as part of the latest change to the 2021 calendar.

A Turkish round at Istanbul planned for June 13 was only added to the schedule two weeks ago as a replacement for the Canadian GP, which was itself called off due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. But with Turkey added to the Government’s travel ‘red list’ last Friday, plans had to be redrawn again by the UK-based sport and, as a result, the Istanbul event is now unable to take place on that date either.

While there will no longer be a race on the weekend of June 11-13, the French GP will move forward from its original slot by one week to June 18-20 for the first leg of a newly-created triple-header.

F1 will then head straight to Austria for a consecutive races at the Red Bull Ring. The Styrian GP on June 25-27 will be followed by the Austrian GP on its original date of July 2-4. The championship successfully staged two races in Austria, under the same race names, to open the delayed 2020 season last July.

A record 23 races remain scheduled for this season.

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F1 said in a statement that promoters in Turkey had “requested that we look at the potential opportunity for the race to be rescheduled later in the season if possible, alongside China who made the same request earlier this year”.

Stefano Domenicali, F1’s president and CEO, said: “We were all looking forward to racing in Turkey but the travel restrictions in place have meant we are not able to be there in June.