In the interest of making the sport truer to its role as a World Championship, Bernie Ecclestone had initiated and organised a number of Grands Prix in new countries. Proposals to hold future races are regularly made by both new locations and countries and circuits that have previously hosted a Formula One Grand Prix. The Portuguese and Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, at Portimão and Imola, are the most recent additions to the current calendar, having been introduced in the COVID-19-disrupted 2020 season. 2021 will also see the return of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, which was first scheduled for 2020 but then postponed to 2021 because of the pandemic, and the debut of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah.