There will be a few changes to the FIA World Endurance Championship 2019/20 calendar.
A preliminary calendar was released in August, at the Silverstone round, and it’s still going to be the same locations, that the sportscar series will visit, but with a few date changes.
The race in Japan has been moved forward one week, to avoid a date clash with the Formula 1 race at Suzuka. As a bi-product, a FIA WEC clash with Petit Le Mans 2019 in the WeatherTech Sportscar Championship will be avoided, too, which many teams and drivers are unhappy about in the current season.
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The changes also gives a small change at the China round in November, which will be moved forward one week as well. Previously there was a clash with the race in Macau, where some of the GT teams, drivers and marshals etc would have been double booked.
The calendar for 2019/20 looks like this – subject to approval by the FIA World Motorsport Council:
01 September 2019 4 Hours of Silverstone (Great Britain)
06 October 2019 6 Hours of Fuji (Japan)
10 November 2019 4 Hours of Shanghai (China)
14 December 2019 8 Hours of Bahrain (Bahrain)
01 February 2020 6 Hours of São Paulo (Brazil)
xx March 2020 1000 Miles of Sebring (8 hours) (USA)
02 May 2020 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium)
13-14 June 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans (France)
