2017 FIA World Endurance Championship

The 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship will be the sixth season of the FIA World Endurance Championship auto racing series co-organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The series will be open to Le Mans Prototypes and grand tourer-style racing cars divided into four categories. The season will begin at the Silverstone Circuit in April and end at the Bahrain International Circuit in November, and include the 85th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Schedule

The ACO announced a provisional calendar on 22 September 2016, largely identical to the 2016 schedule. The Nürburgring event is moved one week earlier in the year in order to avoid a clash with the German Grand Prix. For the first time in the history of the WEC, the official pre-season test will not be held at Circuit Paul Ricard in France, instead moving to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy.^[1]

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Location	Date
1	6 Hours of Silverstone	Silverstone Circuit	Silverstone, United Kingdom	16 April
2	WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Spa, Belgium	6 May
3	24 Hours of Le Mans	Circuit de la Sarthe	Le Mans, France	17–18 June
4	6 Hours of Nürburgring	Nürburgring	Nürburg, Germany	16 July
5	6 Hours of Mexico	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Mexico City, Mexico	3 September
6	6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, United States	16 September
7	6 Hours of Fuji	Fuji Speedway	Oyama, Japan	15 October
8	6 Hours of Shanghai	Shanghai International Circuit	Shanghai, China	5 November
9	6 Hours of Bahrain	Bahrain International Circuit	Sakhir, Bahrain	18 November

Teams and Drivers

On the 26th October 2016, Audi Sport Team Joest confirmed that they will not be racing in the WEC this season.^[2]

References

External links

• Official website