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The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has released the provisional race calendar for the 2011 Formula 1 season, which sees Interlagos regain the season finale for the first time since 2008.

The enlarged 20-race calendar - the longest in F1 history - features an earlier start and later finish than the 2010 season, with the championship-closing Brazilian Grand Prix on 27 November. Abu Dhabi moves to the penultimate slot, having taken the season finale position for 2009/10.

There are once again four back-to-back races - Malaysia and China, Spain and Monaco, Germany and Hungary, and Japan and Korea.

The new Indian Grand Prix at Delhi comes towards the end of the season as part of a series of flyaway races.

2011 F1 calendar:

13/03 Bahrain 27/03 Australia 10/04 Malaysia 17/04 China 08/05 Turkey 22/05 Spain 29/05 Monaco 12/06 Canada 26/06 Europe (Valencia) 10/07 Great Britain 24/07 Germany 31/07 Hungary 28/08 Belgium 11/09 Italy 25/09 Singapore 09/10 Japan 16/10 Korea 30/10 India* 13/11 Abu Dhabi 27/11 Brazil * Subject to the homologation of the circuit