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Draft 2015 calendar

Draft 2015 calendar

22. October 2014Nothing earthshaking came out of yesterday’s sitting of the FIA Truck Racing Commission. At the moment it looks like the 2015 season will by and large mirror the one that’s just concluded. The new technical regulations have been common knowledge for some time now, and the teams are already exploring the possibilities the regs afford.
The commission principally concerned itself with the overall framework of the championship. Nothing revolutionary here either — the truck racers will continue to tread the beaten path. The last item on the agenda was the draft calendar to be placed before the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) on 3 December 2014 in Doha, Qatar.
Even here, nobody expected any further changes to the proposal that had been discussed at the Most weekend. (A couple of weeks ago the Red Bull Ring offered to advance to May the Truck Race Trophy, which was originally scheduled for the beginning of July. The round at Valencia had already been moved up from June to April.) The only dates the teams still had a beef with were those for the Truck Grand Prix on the Nürburgring.
The traditional TGP weekend having been snatched away by Formula 1, the truck racers would have liked to bring their thunder to the Eifel the weekend after the F1 GP, that is, 23 through 26 July, instead of the last weekend in June that they’ve been given. The truckrace camp had refused to give up hope despite repeated declarations by the ADAC Mittelrhein, organiser of the TGP, that Bernie Ecclestone had block-booked the Ring for the entire month of July for other events.
They had wanted to avoid the nine-week summer break, and equally the short gap between the races in Nogaro and the Ring, which means the teams have just three days to pack up at Circuit Paul Armagnac, dash 1,300 km from the south of France across to the Eifel, and then erect all their equipment at the Nürburgring — not to mention set up their trucks in time for the press-day on Thursday morning.
But then the “Rad am Ring” organisers have announced their annual cyclothon on the Nürburgring for the very weekend the truck racers were hoping for.
Even if the officials should somehow awaken to the difficulty this puts the smaller teams to, nothing is going to change in the next six weeks. The entire WMSC is presently preoccupied with the results of the inquiry into Jules Bianchi’s horrific accident at the F1 Grand Prix in Japan.
We reproduce below the calendar proposed by the Truck Racing Commission:

• 24. - 26. April Valencia - ESP
• 15. - 17. May Red Bull Ring - AUT
• 23. - 24. May Misano Adriatico - ITA
• 19. - 21. June Nogaro - FRA
• 25. - 28. June Nürburgring - GER
• 28. - 30. August Most - CZE
• 05. - 06. September Hungaroring - HUN
• 19. - 20. September Zolder - BEL
• 02. - 04. October Jarama - ESP
• 10. - 11. October Le Mans - FRA

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Draft 2015 calendar
Draft 2015 calendar