The promoter for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix is keen to see the Formula 1 race return to📖 a summertime slot on the ca𒊎lendar in 2019 after being brought forward to April this year.

Both the inaugural F1 race in Ba๊ku in 2016 and the second running in 2017 were staged in June following t🍒he Canadian Grand Prix, but the 2018 event was brought forward to April to avoid clashing with national celebrations marking 100 years since Azerbaijan became a republic.

Last month’s grand prix offered noticeably colder conditions than the previous Baku events follo💃wing the date change, but race promoter Arif Rahimov is hopeful of a return to June for 2019.

“We want to move back to June, because it takes a while to set up the circuit and it takes us about three or four months just to do the setup work,” Rahimov said when asked by mahbx.com about plans for the date of ne𒁏xt👍 year’s race in Monaco earlier this week.

“If weꦐ’re in April, that means we have to start in the winter, and you have the adverse weather, you have all the rains and winds and everything that stop you from working e🌌ffectively and efficiently.

“We definitely want to move it to June. We need to see the calendar. I don’t know what the plan for♔ For🍌mula 1 is next year and how they want to arrange it.

“But ideally we would like to hold the race in𝓡 𒀰June.”

Despite speculation suggesting Baku could be dropped from the F1 calendar for 2019 in the event of Miami’s addition, Rahimov confirmed there will be 𒊎at least two further runnings of༺ the Azerbaijan Grand Prix💟, with a potential break clause only becoming active after 2020.