19 race's next season as NJ postponed until 2014

So it has been an extremely busy week in the Formula One world this week. First we had confirmation from Ferrari that Felipe Massa is to stay with the team next season, we then had the news that Susie Wolff made her Formula One testing debut when she completed 51 KM in last year's Williams FW 33 at a sponsor event in Silverstone.

On Thursday, the news broke that Formula One's last independent engine builder Cosworth has been put up for sale.

The big news today was that Bernie Ecclestone confirmed that the American GrandPrix scheduled to be on the calendar next season has been postponed until 2014 due to a lack of funding. In my opinion, this is extremely unfortunate news for New Jersey as a lot of work has been done to promote the event.

Whether or not the event will actually take place at all remains to be seen. We are due to go to Thailand in 2014 for a night race on the street's of Bangkok so we will just have to wait and see what happens with the American GrandPrix. The news comes just a month before Formula One returns to the State's for the US GrandPrix at the Circuit of The America's in Austin, Texas.

I have driven driven the Austin circuit in the 2012 F1 game on the XBox 360, and in my opinion it is an excellent venue and it is going to present a real challenge for the team's and driver's. 

Next weekend Formula One heads to New Dheli for the Indian GrandPrix which is going to be an interesting race. Will Fernando Alonso be able to regain the lead of the Driver's championship? And will Kimi Raikkonen be able to continue his consistent run of results?

So as it stand's there will only be 19 race's on next year's F1 calendar. It has been suggested that Mr Ecclestone could get Turkey back on the calendar for next season to make up the 20 scheduled races. However I personally believe that a return to Turkey is extremely unlikely. I would like to see more race's in Europe because next season we will only have 7 race's in Europe which is a real shame for fans of the sport in my opinion because a lot of Formula One fans are based in Europe and due to the current economic climate many fan's myself included can't afford to attend race's as often as I would I like because GrandPrix ticket's are extremely expensive.