While information was recently circulating that there would be no future for Canada in F1 due to a lack of agreement between the parties, with Bernie Ecclestone demanding modernization works on the circuit costing 30 million euros and a 4% indexation of the circuit. However, there seems to have been a turn of events.<\/p>\n
Patrick Tremblay, journalist for TVA Sports<\/i>, expressed himself in his column in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/i>: \u00ab There’s one step left to be taken, Thursday morning in Ottawa at the treasury board meeting, but the bulk of the work has been done, \u00bb he declares.<\/p>\n
According to this journalist, there are still a few details to finalize: According to one of my sources, there is one last point to conclude, but I don’t know more.<\/p>\n
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is said to have played a key role in the extension of the Grand Prix. In the show Le Qu\u00e9bec Matin<\/i>, an agreement is reportedly close according to him.<\/p>\n
All these improvements expected by the FIA will remain the responsibility of the city according to the statement by Patrick Tremblay: \u00ab The city will provide millions for the renovation of the paddocks and the track, Coderre’s decision had a significant impact in resolving the matter \u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the Canadian press, the Montreal weekend could be associated with the announcement of the extension of the current contract linking Formula 1 to the Canadian Grand Prix for an additional ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":37510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[121,1010],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-calendrier","tag-montreal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n