World Endurance Championship Adds Mexico City Gary Watkins - AutoSport.com
go to original September 27, 2015

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The World Endurance Championship will expand to nine races for 2016 with the addition of a race at the Mexico City track.

The event in the Mexican capital, on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit being remodelled for this year's Formula 1 grand prix, will take place at the start of November and will kick off a five-race leg of flyaway events.

The other races are the eight fixtures on this year's calendar, starting with Silverstone in April.

The Nurburgring race has been moved foward from the end of August to the end of July, which has reduced the post-Le Mans 24 Hours summer break from 11 weeks to five.

Pierre Fillon, president of WEC promoter the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, said: "We believe that the time is right to expand the WEC.

"The nine-race calendar for 2016 allows us to continue to build the tradition of six-hour events in the countries we visit, some of which were not so familiar with endurance racing when we began in 2012."

2016 WEC CALENDAR
   • April 17 Silverstone (GB)
   • May 7 Spa (B)
   • June 18/19 Le Mans 24 Hours (F)
   • July 24 Nurburgring (D)
   • September 4 Mexico City (MEX)
   • September 17 Austin (USA)
   • October 16 Fuji (J)
   • November 6 Shanghai (PRC)
   • November 19 Sakhir (BH)

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