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Bernie Ecclestone admitted in the paddock of the German Grand Prix that he still doesn't know what is happening with the Spanish Grand Prix. He also revealed that he might buy the Nurburgring, and that F1 could visit the US as much as three times per year in the future.
Reportedly, a verbal agreement between the regional presidents should see Valencia and Barcelona annually alternate a single Spanish F1 race from now on.
The port city of Valencia, absent from the 2013 schedule, was set to kick off the arrangement in 2014, but the Circuit de Catalunya has already put tickets on sale for a Spanish grand prix next year.
"If they are doing that," Valencia vice president Jose Ciscar said, "you will have to ask Catalunya as to why."
Asked on Friday at the Nurburgring to clarify the identity of next year's Spanish grand prix host, F1 chief executive Ecclestone answered: "I don't know yet.
"We have to wait," he is quoted by the Spanish sports daily AS.
It is also likely the F1 community will have to wait to see what happens with the German Grand Prix.
Weighed under by financial problems and now for sale, this weekend's round at the famous track in the Eifel only survived on the 2013 calendar because the F1 chief executive heavily reduced his sanctioning fee.
Asked by Die Welt newspaper about the Nurburgring's future beyond the German grand prix on Sunday, Ecclestone answered: "It's quite possible that I'll buy it (the circuit).
"At least I'm thinking about it.
"If I do that, it would mean the German grand prix is secure in the future, taking into account of course the existing contracts with Hockenheim."
The 82-year-old Briton said he will make his final decision "in a few months".
"At any rate," Ecclestone insisted, "the German grand prix next year will be at Hockenheim. There are binding contracts and I will keep to them."
The F1 supremo also said he is hoping "two new races" in America will complement the now annual Austin race, "namely in Long Beach and New York (New Jersey)".
And Ecclestone said F1 is also planning races in Thailand, as well as Baku -- the capital of Azerbaijan.
Bernie Ecclestone admitted in the paddock of the German Grand Prix that he still doesn't know what is happening with the Spanish Grand Prix. He also revealed that he might buy the Nurburgring, and that F1 could visit the US as much as three times per year in the future.
Reportedly, a verbal agreement between the regional presidents should see Valencia and Barcelona annually alternate a single Spanish F1 race from now on.
The port city of Valencia, absent from the 2013 schedule, was set to kick off the arrangement in 2014, but the Circuit de Catalunya has already put tickets on sale for a Spanish grand prix next year.
"If they are doing that," Valencia vice president Jose Ciscar said, "you will have to ask Catalunya as to why."
Asked on Friday at the Nurburgring to clarify the identity of next year's Spanish grand prix host, F1 chief executive Ecclestone answered: "I don't know yet.
"We have to wait," he is quoted by the Spanish sports daily AS.
It is also likely the F1 community will have to wait to see what happens with the German Grand Prix.
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| The fabled Nurburgring circuit. |
Weighed under by financial problems and now for sale, this weekend's round at the famous track in the Eifel only survived on the 2013 calendar because the F1 chief executive heavily reduced his sanctioning fee.
Asked by Die Welt newspaper about the Nurburgring's future beyond the German grand prix on Sunday, Ecclestone answered: "It's quite possible that I'll buy it (the circuit).
"At least I'm thinking about it.
"If I do that, it would mean the German grand prix is secure in the future, taking into account of course the existing contracts with Hockenheim."
The 82-year-old Briton said he will make his final decision "in a few months".
"At any rate," Ecclestone insisted, "the German grand prix next year will be at Hockenheim. There are binding contracts and I will keep to them."
The F1 supremo also said he is hoping "two new races" in America will complement the now annual Austin race, "namely in Long Beach and New York (New Jersey)".
And Ecclestone said F1 is also planning races in Thailand, as well as Baku -- the capital of Azerbaijan.
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| Austin's COTA (Photo: WRi2) |