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Old 2 Dec 2008, 14:31 (Ref:2345693)   #28
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Originally Posted by RichardRenes
And you will find this happen all over Europe.. circuits getting fed up with F1 and the huge sums they have to pay in advance to host a race.
Hold on, I thought that a lot of the problem regarding the 08-09 season dates was that A1GP was starting to ask venues for something like 25% of an F1 sanction fee, simply because they have to recoup the massive startup costs.

OK, it might be cheaper, but it's still a heck of a lot of money.

Until the (paying) spectator numbers warrant it, a European venue would still baulk at those sort of figures. Why 2 rounds for China? - government money - same old path as F1.
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