The FIA World Motorsport Council announced that the World Touring Car Championship will visit two new tracks next season when the 2010 calendar was revealed.

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The new additions to the WTCC tour next year will be Belguim's Zolder circuit and the Algarve track in Portugal.

Zolder, which hosted a meeting of the European Touring Car Championship back in 2001, replaces the French round at Pau and will mark WTCC's return to Belgium after its only previous visit at Spa in 2005.

The new Portuguese track will host the championship for the first time, stepping in for Porto.

Other changes from the current season include the swapping of dates between Italy and Spain - the name of the Italian venue that will host the first European event will be revealed soon - and the postponement of the Czech event to August 1st.

The structure of the season remains the same, with the two opening events in Brazil and Mexico, followed by Marrakech, seven meetings in Europe and the final trip to the Far East tracks of Japan and Macau.