A supposed FOTA calendar has been appearing in the media in the last few hours, including Monaco, Monza, Suzuka, Abu Dhabi and Singapore. In addition there are former F1 venues in Buenos Aires, (Argentina), Mexico City, Jerez, Imola, Montreal, Indianapolis, Magny-Cours and potentially either Adelaide or Surfers' Paradise in Australia. New venues listed are Portimao, in Portugal, a street race in Helsinki and Lausitzring in Germany. The calendar does not really sound very likely as it seems to be rather backward-looking in style. We had heard whispers that it was more likely that we would see two or even three races in the United States, which is a key market for the automobile manufacturers and has only been excluded from F1 in recent years because local promoters will not pay the fees being demanded.

Having the basis of a calendar no doubt will help to add to the impression that FOTA is serious about starting it own championship. There are now few people in F1 who do not believe the organisation to be completely serious, but nothing is likely to happen until the FIA meets in Paris tomorrow to consider its strategies for the future.

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I'm down for anything that brings FOTA/F1 back to North America

 

U.S. races ftw!

 

Here's another article about it from Crash.Net.

2010 FOTA 'breakaway' calendar leaked | F1 News | 2009 | Crash.Net

 

Just PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE come back to u.s.a.!

 

This sounds amazing!

 

USA races FTW! If that's the result of no more F1..then I'm all for it!

 

I'd love to see some races in the states! Tomorrow will be big news!

 

Curious if the dates for the FOTA series would 'clash' with the 2010 F1 calendar. The F1 provisional calendar doesn't have dates yet but the FOTA schedule seems to run on or just about the same dates.