"Next week there will be a provisional Formula 1 calendar"

Jack Plooij is able to announce that next week FOM, the FIA and Liberty Media may present a provisional new Formula 1 calendar. The Ziggo Sport pit reporter bases this on an interview with a European circuit director.

"I spoke to a director of a European circuit", Plooij reveals in the Formula 1 café at Ziggo Sport. The Formula 1 journalist just doesn't want to reveal his source. "Unfortunately I can't tell which circuit he owned, but he said that Friday (yesterday, ed.) all alternative dates have to be submitted to FOM. Next week there will be a provisional agenda and it will start in Europe."

Chances are that the season will then start in Austria, without an audience. The Red Bull Ring and Austrian government are open to it and Formula 1 seems to want to travel to Spielberg for the first Grand Prix of the year, Plooij understood. "The start of the year could very well be in Austria on July 5".

A Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in 2020?

Reportedly the circus travels after Austria to Silverstone and stays in Europe until the end of the summer. "With this you avoid all that chaos with airplanes. At the bottom of the line it's just a crisis and need breaks the law, so you have to start thinking out of the box if you want to present a Formula 1 calendar, so I'll see it", Robert Doornbos refers to the presence of Zandvoort on that renewed calendar.