{"id":394953,"date":"2022-12-02T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394953"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:00:35","slug":"f1-2023-calendar-back-to-23-races-after-chinese-gp-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/f1-2023-calendar-back-to-23-races-after-chinese-gp-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2023 calendar back to 23 races after Chinese GP cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation in China, the organizers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited competition was cancelled for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RQaEplXJvA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RQaEplXJvA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1598633240947851266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formula 1 can confirm, following dialogue with the promoter and relevant authorities, that the 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formula 1 is assessing alternative options to replace the slot on the 2023 calendar and will provide an update on this in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Formula 1 had been set to return to China for first time since 2019, in what was scheduled to be the fourth round of a record 24-race season on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is a four-week gap between races in Australia and Azerbaijan at the beginning and end of April but there are several interested parties in taking China&#8217;s spot, including Portimao for a Portuguese Grand Prix, which returned to F1 in 2020 and &#8217;21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation in China, the organizers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394954,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"had been set to return to China for first time since 2019","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394953"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394953"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}