GP2 and GP3, the first and second tier feeder series’ for Formula 1, are following the main event to new destinations in 2014.
The presence of these exciting and super-competitive series’ are a real boost for the race programs at the European and Middle-Eastern F1 weekends, improving the experience for spectators and going some way to justifying ever-increasing ticket prices.
Both GP2 and GP3 will complement the race programs at the two new European rounds of the F1 season in Austria and Russia in 2014, but in the case of GP2, this comes at the expense of the races previously held at Sepang in Malaysia and Marina Bay in Singapore.
Later this year, Abu Dhabi will hold the final rounds of all three championships – F1, GP2 and GP3 – on 21-23 November . Imagine if all three championships were still open going into the Abu Dhabi weekend? A tantalizing prospect for motorsport fans lucky enough to be at Yas Marina in 2014!
GP2
An eleven race calendar is planned for 2014, the ninth season of GP2.- The races at Sepang in Malaysia and Marina Bay in Singapore are off the 2014 calendar, making way for the two new European races at the Red Bull Ring in Austria and Sochi in Russia in October.
- Two visits to the Middle-East bookend the European season with the opening race of the GP2 championship scheduled for Grand Prix weekend in Bahrain on 4-6 April and the final race in Abu Dhabi on 21-23 November, also the final F1 weekend for 2014.
GP3
A nine race calendar is planned for the fifth season of GP3 in 2014.- The stand-alone event held at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Spain last year was removed from the 2014 calendar.
- Monaco is the only European F1 weekend which will not feature GP3 action in 2014.
- The GP3 season begins at Circuit de Catalunya in Spain in May and takes in 2014’s new European F1 races at the Red Bull Ring in Austria and Sochi in Russia, whilst the final race of the season will once again be held at Yas Marina (Abu Dhabi) in November.
