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Valencia negotiating with Ecclestone
ESPNF1 Staff
January 20, 2012
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The organisers of the European Grand Prix in Valencia are negotiating with Bernie Ecclestone over the future of the race.
Valencia's government recently admitted that the race was one of a number of major events under review due to the economic crisis in Spain. With the Spanish Grand Prix also under threat, Ecclestone said that Barcelona wanted to explore the opportunity of alternating races with Valencia in future. Alberto Fabra, president of the Valencia Generalitat has now confirmed that he wants the race to continue but that the contract needs to be revised.
"We want to continue with the grand prix of Europe," Fabra said. "But with different conditions."
Fabra said that the aim of the negotiations with Ecclestone was to seek "lower costs ... [to] find the right balance". Jose Ciscar, the vice-president of the Valencian government, has previously said that cancelling the contract was an unrealistic option due to the penalty costs that could be incurred.
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Honestly, I think that Mr. Ecclestone should start thinking about "stepping out" as F1 supremo and leave F1 for somebody more oriented to the sport than to his personal check account.
Posted byIt is a beautiful city and the beaches are fantastic. Unfortunately the race is one of the least interesting on the calendar and if it vanished I doubt that anyone would even notice.
Posted byValencia is the msot boring race of the year, the circuit is dull. I wouldnt mind to see it out of the calendar. Drop Valencia and bring back magny course
Posted byI, for one, would totally get behind Bernie simply cancelling Valencia. It's a bloody boring GP who's only challenged by Singapore when it comes to boring races.
Posted byHere's hoping the negotiations fail and we can wave goodbye to Valencia. And then hope that Bahrain, China, Korea, Malaysia and India all follow suit and fall of the F1 calender. Also hoping that the track in Austin comes to nothing so we don't have endure another Herman Tilke designed borefest.
Posted byBest of luck with that,Bernie will just cancel the contract and put a GP in a different country