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The good and bad of the WEC's 2016 calendar

The prospect of an additional World Endurance Championship round next year, along with a shorter break after Le Mans, look good on paper. But GARY WATKINS asks whether it really is good news

At last! A calendar that doesn't leave me shrugging my shoulders when friends down the pub on a summer evening ask what's happening in the World Endurance Championship. They couldn't comprehend why there was such a long break after the Le Mans 24 Hours.

And, quite frankly, neither could I.

That's not going to be a problem next year, because the Nurburgring round has been brought forward from the end of August to late July. The reduction of the ridiculous 11-week gap - down from a monstrous 13 weeks in 2014 - between Le Mans in June and the start of the second leg of the series is a positive move. And one that I have long championed.

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