British F3 to race at Magny-Cours
The British Formula 3 championship will make a maiden voyage to Magny-Cours this season after revealing its 2010 calendar today
The series will race at the former home of the French Grand Prix on May 22-23, supporting a round of the third season of Superleague Formula.
The Magny-Cours date will be round three of 10 and form the first part of a planned foreign triple-header that includes Hockenheim the following weekend and ends with the non-championship F3 Masters event at Zandvoort on June 5-6.
F3 Teams Association [FOTA] boss Peter Briggs said: "The teams are excited about going to Magny-Cours. It's a good circuit and a safe circuit, and I think the French Grand Prix might end up there again."
British F3 will also return to Thruxton in 2010, after a year's hiatus from the calendar. The track dropped off the schedule following an aborted attempt to switch British F3 onto the British Touring Car Championship's TOCA package in 2009.
The series will visit the high-speed Hampshire venue on the first weekend of August, a week after supporting the Spa 24 Hours FIA GT event.
"I'm a politician and mending bridges is what I do," added Briggs. "Thruxton will be interesting because it's a great slipstreamer of a circuit."
The Thruxton date replaces the beleaguered Donington Park on this year's calendar. The future of the venue remains uncertain until a new leaseholder is found and repairs are made to get the circuit up and running again following Simon Gillett's abortive attempt to host the 2010 British Grand Prix.
British F3 will also not return to the fledgling Algarve circuit in 2010. The Portuguese venue became a last-minute replacement for a race at the Bucharest street circuit in 2009, but Briggs said the cost of travelling, plus clashes with other dates, means British F3 will lose one of last season's most popular rounds.
The season once again begins on April Bank Holiday weekend, with a round at Oulton Park, and ends with a September date on the Brands Hatch GP circuit. The series will also visit Rockingham, Snetterton and make two trips to the Silverstone GP circuit.
British F3 calendar 2010 3/5 April - Oulton Park 1 /2 May - Silverstone GP (supporting FIA GT) 22/23 May - Magny Cours (supporting Superleague Formula) 29/30 May - Hockenheim (supporting ADAC GT) 17/18 July - Rockingham 30/31 July - Spa (supporting FIA GT 24) 7/8 August - Thruxton 14/15 August - Silverstone GP 29/30 August - Snetterton 25/26 September - Brands Hatch GP
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