The FIA World Endurance Championship has made several tweaks to its 2019-’20 season calendar with two adjusted dates. Its provisional calendar was released in August.

FIA WEC was due to race in Fuji, Japan on October 13, 2019. However, that weekend clashed with the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.

Fuji’s race comes forward one week to October 6, 2019.  It also now avoids a clash with IMSA’s Motul Petit Le Mans in 2019.

“Our 2019-2020 season calendar features the same venues and race lengths we announced at Silverstone,” said Gérard Neveu, CEO of the WEC.

“But, following the F1 calendar publication, we have modified two dates. The knock-on benefit of this is that we will now avoid a clash with both IMSA’s Petit Le Mans and the Macau GT event which is a bonus for both competitors and fans of endurance racing around the world.”

An additional change comes for its Chinese race, which also comes forward one week from November 17 to November 10.

The 2019-’20 season begins at Silverstone on September 1 with a four-hour race. The existing FIA WEC season still has five more rounds, with Fuji and Shanghai in 2018 and Sebring, Spa and Le Mans set for the first half of 2019.

The FIA WEC will submit this version of the calendar to the FIA World Motor Sport Council for approval in Paris on October 12.

2019-2020 FIA World Endurance Championship Calendar * 

01 September 2019         4 Hours of Silverstone                    (Great Britain)
06 October 2019              6 Hours of Fuji                                (Japan)
10 November 2019          4 Hours of Shanghai                      (China)
14 December 2019          8 Hours of Bahrain                         (Bahrain)
01 February 2020            6 Hours of São Paulo                     (Brazil)
XX March 2020                1000 Miles of Sebring (8 hours)     (USA) **
02 May 2020                    6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps     (Belgium)
13-14 June 2020              24 Hours of Le Mans                     (France)

* Subject to approval by the FIA World Motor Sport Council

** To be confirmed