FIA publishes WTCC calendar

The FIA Motorsport Council has announced the 12-round calendar for next year’s edition of the World Touring Car Championship. Following a meeting the Council had this Wednesday, October 20^th, it was decided to get Belgium back on the programme – with the WTCC round in Zolder – which hadn’t happened since 2005.

Some worth mentioning adjustments are the calendar change for the Spanish round at Valencia, which will happen in September instead of May. The Portuguese round will be switched from last year’s street circuit at Porto to the region of Algarve. Only in Italy it has not yet been decided where will the WTCC event take place.

Thus, the schedule for the 2010 World Touring Car Championship is the following:

March 3^rd – Curitiba, Brazil
April 11^th – Puebla, Mexico
May 2^nd – Marrakech, Morocco
May 23^rd – undefined local, Italy
June 20^th – Zolder, Belgium
July 4^th – Algarve, Portugal
July 18^th – Brands Hatch, Kent, Great Britain
August 1^st – Brno, Czech Republic
September 5^th – Oschersleben, Germany
September 9^th – Valencia, Spain
October 31^st – Okayama, Japan
November 21^st – Macau, China