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There is still a chance the Nurburgring will host the German grand prix next year, and the sports daily L'Equipe says there will be no French grand prix in 2013.
German Grand Prix
With the famous Nurburgring circuit now in an insolvency process, an official said recently there is little chance a formula one race will be held there in 2013.
But SID news agency reports that the Nurburgring has in fact been empowered to negotiate with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.
"Now we have to make progress in the talks with Bernie Ecclestone and make a contract," said managing director Thomas Schmidt.
French Grand Prix
There had been moves afoot to revive the country's defunct grand prix, at either Paul Ricard or Magny Cours.
But L'Equipe said the French sanctioning body FFSA had not, by Tuesday's deadline, received a request to apply to be added to the FIA's 2013 schedule.
The deadline was in place ahead of the forthcoming World Motor Sport Council meeting in early December, which is the last chance to make changes to the provisional 2013 race calendar.
Malaysian Grand Prix
Razlan Razali, the boss of the Malaysian grand prix, has admitted that 2015 could be the Sepang circuit's last formula one race.
He told Isportconnect it is "too early to even think" about whether the existing contract will be extended.
"I think for the event to be successful and to even consider the event going beyond 2015, and paying lots of money to formula one, FOM must help the circuit to try and allow us to do as much as possible to get spectators to come to the circuit," said Razali.
He said another issue is the race's late start time.
"Put it this way," said Razali, "in the event that we decide to go beyond 2015, there are various key points that we insist upon changing before we even talk about (it), including the starting time."
There is still a chance the Nurburgring will host the German grand prix next year, and the sports daily L'Equipe says there will be no French grand prix in 2013.
German Grand Prix
With the famous Nurburgring circuit now in an insolvency process, an official said recently there is little chance a formula one race will be held there in 2013.
But SID news agency reports that the Nurburgring has in fact been empowered to negotiate with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.
"Now we have to make progress in the talks with Bernie Ecclestone and make a contract," said managing director Thomas Schmidt.
French Grand Prix
There had been moves afoot to revive the country's defunct grand prix, at either Paul Ricard or Magny Cours.
But L'Equipe said the French sanctioning body FFSA had not, by Tuesday's deadline, received a request to apply to be added to the FIA's 2013 schedule.
The deadline was in place ahead of the forthcoming World Motor Sport Council meeting in early December, which is the last chance to make changes to the provisional 2013 race calendar.
Malaysian Grand Prix
Razlan Razali, the boss of the Malaysian grand prix, has admitted that 2015 could be the Sepang circuit's last formula one race.
He told Isportconnect it is "too early to even think" about whether the existing contract will be extended.
"I think for the event to be successful and to even consider the event going beyond 2015, and paying lots of money to formula one, FOM must help the circuit to try and allow us to do as much as possible to get spectators to come to the circuit," said Razali.
He said another issue is the race's late start time.
"Put it this way," said Razali, "in the event that we decide to go beyond 2015, there are various key points that we insist upon changing before we even talk about (it), including the starting time."