F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has admitted it could explore a return of the German Grand Prix in the near future.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Germany was once a traditional stop on the F1 calendar, but high costs in the early 2010s saw Hockenheim and Nurburgring host the event on a rotational basis.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, after the 2019 event, the German Grand Prix disappeared from the schedule, with various new locations since striking deals with F1 as the calendar expanded.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Despite having no grand prix, there is a significant German presence in F1 with Mercedes and Audi, as well as Audi’s veteran driver Nico Hulkenberg.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
But while there are no guarantees that the event will make a return, Domenicali has acknowledged that it could soon explore striking up a new agreement.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWith regard to the potential, we don\u2019t have to forget that we have Audi stepping into the business. We have big partners that have their home base in Germany.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, Germany wants us to think in the medium term if they can come back into the calendar.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cOr, more importantly, being as it was 20 years ago – one of the most important markets for F1.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is the basis for this discussion. The new situation in Germany is starting to move in the direction that I see potentially in the future, being a very interesting market that will have a positive effect on both the media side but also maybe on the promoter side.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will not, in that case, [be] a certain call, but it definitely will happen. This is important to remember.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
While 2019 marked the last official German Grand Prix, F1 visited Nurburgring in 2020 during the Covid-impacted campaign, with the race held under the ‘Eifel Grand Prix’ banner.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has admitted it could explore a return of the German Grand Prix in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-847783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}