Motorsports season calendar 2009

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:34 pm

List of some notable racing leagues and happenings of season 2009. You are free to give comments on any happening here.

January:
31st-1st February - WRC at Ireland Rally *season start*

February:
13rd-15th - WRC at Norway Rally
22nd - A1GP at Kyalami, South Africa

March:
1st - World Superbike at Phillip Island, Australia *season start*
5th-7th - IRC at Brazil Rally
8th - WTCC at Curitiba, Brazil *season start*
13rd-15th - WRC at Cyprus Rally
14th - World Superbike at Losail, Quatar
22nd - A1GP at Mexico City, Mexico
22nd - WTCC at Puebla, Mexico
29th - Formula 1 at Melbourne, Australia *season start, evening race*

April:
3rd-4th - IRC at Safari Rally, Kenya
3rd-5th - WRC at Portugal Rally
5th - Formula 1 at Sepang, Malaysia *evening race*
5th - IndyCar Series at St. Petersburg, USA *season start*
5th - Le Mans Series at Barcelona, Spain *season start*
5th - World Superbike at Valencia Circuit, Spain
12nd - A1GP at Portimao, Portugal *new track*
12nd - MotoGP at Losail, Quatar *season start, night race*
19th - Formula 1 at Shanghai, China
24th-26th - WRC at Argentina Rally
26th - Formula 1 at Sakhir, Bahrain
26th - MotoGP at Motegi, Japan
26th - World Superbike at Assen, Netherlands

May:
3rd - A1GP at Brands Hatch, Great Britain *season final*
3rd - MotoGP at Jerez, Spain
3rd - WTCC at Marrakech Street, Marocco *new track*
7th-9th - IRC at Azores, Portugal
10th - Formula 1 at Barcelona, Spain
10th - Le Mans Series at Spa, Belgium
10th - World Superbike at Monza, Italy
17th - MotoGP at Le Mans, France
17th - World Superbike at Kyalami, South Africa
17th - WTCC at Pau, France
22nd-24th - WRC at Italy Rally
24th - Formula 1 at Monte Carlo, Monaco
24th - IndyCar Series at Indianapolis 500, USA
31st - MotoGP at Mugello, Italy
31st - World Superbike at Salt Lake City, USA
31st - WTCC at Valencia Circuit, Spain

June:
7th - Formula 1 at Istanbul, Turkey
12nd-14th - WRC at Acropolis, Greece
13rd-14th - Le Mans 24 Hours, France
14th - MotoGP at Barcelona, Spain
21st - Formula 1 at Silverstone, Great Britain
21st - World Superbike at Misano, San Marino
21st - WTCC at Brno, Czech
26th-28th - WRC at Poland Rally
27th - MotoGP at Assen, Netherlands
27th-28th - IRC at Belgium Rally
28th - World Superbike at Donington, Great Britain

July:
5th - MotoGP at Laguna Seca, USA
5th - WTCC at Porto, Portugal
11st-12nd - IRC at Russia Rally
12th - Formula 1 at Nürburgring, Germany
19th - MotoGP at Saschenring, Germany
19th - WTCC at Brands Hatch, Great Britain
26th - Formula 1 at Hungaroring, Hungary
26th - MotoGP at Donington, Great Britain
26th - World Superbike at Brno, Czech
31st-August 2nd - WRC at Jyvaskylä, Finland Rally

August:
1st-and - IRC at Maderia, Portugal Rally
2nd - Le Mans Series at Portimao, Portugal *new track*
16th - MotoGP at Brno, Czech
22nd-24th - IRC at Czech Rally
23rd - Formula 1 at Valencia Street, Spain
23rd - Le Mans Series at Nürburgring, Germany
30th - Formula 1 at Spa, Belgium
30th - MotoGP at Indianapolis, USA

September:
4th-6th - WRC at Australia Rally
6th - MotoGP at Misano, San Marino
6th - World Superbike at Nürburgring, Germany
6th - WTCC at Oschersleben, Germany
12nd-13rd - IRC at Spain Rally
13rd - Formula 1 at Monza, Italy
13rd - Le Mans Series at Silverstone, Great Britain *season final*
20th - MotoGP at Balatonring, Hungary *new track*
20th - WTCC at Imola, Italy
25th-27th - IRC at Sanremo, Italy Rally
27th - Formula 1 at Singapore Street, Singapore *night race*
27th - World Superbike at Imola, Italy

October:
2nd-4th - WRC at Spain Rally
4th - Formula 1 at Suzuka, Japan
4th - MotoGP at Estoril, Portugal
4th - World Superbike at Magny Cours, France
11st - IndyCar Series at Homestead *season final*
18th - Formula 1 at Interlagos, Brazil
18th - MotoGP at Phillip Island, Australia
23rd-25th - IRC at Switzerland Rally
23rd-25th - WRC at Rally Wales *season final*
25th - MotoGP at Sepang, Malaysia *night race?*
25th - World Superbike at Portimao, Portugal *season final, new track*

November:
1st - Formula 1 at Abu Dhabi, UAE *season final, new track*
1st - WTCC at Okayama (Aida), Japan
8th - MotoGP at Valencia Circuit, Spain *season final*
22nd - WTCC at Macau, Macau *season final*

December:
5th-7th - IRC at China Rally *season final*
? - Race Of Champions

olio · Post by **olio** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:19 am

Where's WRC and IRC?

Edit: ah, in the text you say racing happenings, I just read the topic, Motorsports.

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:56 am

olio wrote:Where's WRC and IRC?

Edit: ah, in the text you say racing happenings, I just read the topic, Motorsports.

Both of them now added, I think these belongs here too

Storm · Post by **Storm** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:56 pm

May:
9th-10th - IRC at Portugal Rally -- little correction here , its on Paradise Land

so
9th-10th - IRC at Azores Rally

iBlaze² · Post by **iBlaze²** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:09 pm

The first 2 rounds of the Formula 1 calendar (Australia and Malaysia) have been confirmed as evening races so they definitely won't be night races now.

New starting time is 17:00 local time (10:00 GMT).

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:27 pm

iBlaze² wrote: May:
9th-10th - IRC at Portugal Rally -- little correction here , its on Paradise Land Very Happy

so
9th-10th - IRC at Azores Rally

Well anway, it is held in Portugal and it's information enough

iBlaze² wrote:The first 2 rounds of the Formula 1 calendar (Australia and Malaysia) have been confirmed as evening races so they definitely won't be night races now.

New starting time is 17:00 local time (10:00 GMT).

It's the same again, evening or night, some kind of lights is required, very bright lights in this case. More near to equator night/darkness comes very quick after evening and the race may look like full night when the race get's older..

iBlaze² · Post by **iBlaze²** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:40 pm

Keppana wrote:It's the same again, evening or night, some kind of lights is required, very bright lights in this case. More near to equator night/darkness comes very quick after evening and the race may look like full night when the race get's older..

Not quite. The whole point in not making it a full night race was so that no lights have to be installed around the circuits (they didn't want the costs of that). So i'm not entirely sure how it will work, but it's not going to be held under floodlights like Singapore... which is strange at that time of day because, as you say, it gets dark quick there doesn't it

Taken from crash.net...
"Malaysia has been approached about the possibility of joining Singapore in hosting races under floodlight, but this is being seen as a compromise for the time being."

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:02 am

iBlaze² wrote:Not quite. The whole point in not making it a full night race was so that no lights have to be installed around the circuits (they didn't want the costs of that). So i'm not entirely sure how it will work, but it's not going to be held under floodlights like Singapore... which is strange at that time of day because, as you say, it gets dark quick there doesn't it

Well, I changed both of them to evening event

5PM is not night at all, it starts somewhere in 10PM, but there might be total darkness when the race is ending in 6:30PM. We will then see. Hope for good race.

Storm · Post by **Storm** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:06 pm

Well anway, it is held in Portugal and it's information enough

Its not exatly the same since its 1000KM of sea away from Portugal

Btw im participating on the event its gonna be my 1st IRC

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:05 pm

Storm wrote:Its not exatly the same since its 1000KM of sea away from Portugal

Agreed. You maybe right

Storm · Post by **Storm** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:09 am

Here's a video where u can see what a IRC here would look like and see a bit of the Paradise Land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2SWbqVcGR8

its not high quality and its kinda old but its nice

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:54 pm

Superbike season is starting tonight, wohoo!

E: Fantastic racing, both starts, fighting for podium positions and victory till the last curves. This season will be very interesting. Congratulations to Noryaki "nitroni" Haga for the victory, and to Ben Spies for his very first victory on his second only start. Move from MotoGP to Superbike was a good choice.

Keppana · Post by **Keppana** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:00 am

Nice F1 race in Australia, amazing Brawn GP

Rumours told there could be a late winter storm in Malaysia which may bring snow to the track. Teams have been prepared to use spiked tires on their cars

Source: April Fools' Day News.