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2013 Provisional FIA World Endurance Championship Calendar

14 April Round 1 / 6 Hours of Silverstone GBR
04 May Round 2 WEC / 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps BEL
22/23 June Round 3 / 24 Heures du Mans FRA
24 August Round 4 / 6 Hours of Sao Paulo BRA
22 September Round 5 / 6 Hours of Austin * USA
20 October Round 6 / 6 Hours of Fuji JPN
10 November Round 7 / 6 Hours of Shanghai * CHN
30 November Round 8 / 6 Hours of Bahrain BAH

*To be confirmed

...Austin, Texas, which will host a super endurance race weekend with a race for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) on Saturday and a WEC race on Sunday.

The season will begin in Silverstone on 14 April, which will also feature a separate race for the re-launched European Le Mans Series.

You can also be disappointed that Santa isn't real.

Don Panoz was pretty vocal about not liking WEC and P1s. So I'm not sure why anyone expected those races.

A Sebring statement highlighted that its 12 Hours next March takes place a full month before the WEC opener at Silverstone, and said the schedule had been designed so that WEC squads could still compete in Florida.

Sebring president and general manager Tres Stephenson was bullish about his event's chances of attracting WEC squads.

"We are very encouraged about 2013," he said. "We have already received inquiries from WEC teams who wish to compete in next year's Sebring endurance classic."

WEC chief Gerard Neveu said Sebring was dropped so that all the WEC's non-European rounds took place after the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2013, and because of fears a joint WEC/ALMS entry would be impossible to accommodate.

"Imagine if we had 32 or 34 WEC cars and 35 in the ALMS," Neveu said. "It would be difficult to tell people that there was not room for everyone."

After the merger decision... he sure used to lick ACO's ass.

Bahrain 6 hours about to start. Grandstand consists of one man and his dog.