The FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue has shifted dates, moving from its originally scheduled March 24-25 date to April 1-2 still at Autodromo di Nazionale, Monza.
The reasoning is that His Holiness Pope Francis will be making an official visit to Monza on those dates. Naturally, organizational, security and logistical preferences will follow for that.
The European Le Mans Series continues as planned on March 28 and 29 with its preseason test.
For fans of clashes, two more have been created on account of this date shift. The FIA Formula E Championship race at Mexico and Blancpain GT Series season opener at Misano fall on the same weekend as the Prologue.
Slow clap for FIA WEC for managing to reschedule the FIA WEC Prologue at Monza to clash with Blancpain GT Series season opener at Misano.
— Marcel ten Caat (@marceltencaat) December 6, 2016
...which clashes with FE Mexico!
— Stephen Errity 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@83ste) December 6, 2016
The full revised calendar (for the moment, and for the last time, we hope) is below.
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— FIA World Endurance Championship (@FIAWEC) December 6, 2016
2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ #WEC CALENDAR 🗓
🇮🇹APR 1/2
🇬🇧 APR 16
🇧🇪 MAY 6
🇫🇷 JUN 17-18
🇩🇪 JUL 16
🇲🇽 SEP 3
🇺🇸 SEP 16
🇯🇵 OCT 15
🇨🇳 NOV 5
🇧🇭 NOV 18 pic.twitter.com/ngP1g91Xhz