Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has opened the door to a return to the Nurburgring but warned that “time is running out” to make something happen.<\/p>\n
The Nurburgring last featured on the F1 calendar during the COVID-hit 2020 season, which also marked the most recent time Germany hosted the pinnacle of motorsport.<\/p>\n
For much of F1’s history, Germany has played an integral role. However, interest has declined rapidly, particularly since Michael Schumacher\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n
Despite that, Germany has seen significant success in F1 since the seven-time world champion stepped away at the end of 2012.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Vettel secured four consecutive world titles from 2010 to 2013, while Nico Rosberg claimed the drivers\u2019 championship for Mercedes in 2016.<\/p>\n
Mercedes, the German manufacturer, also won eight consecutive constructors\u2019 titles from 2014 to 2021. Yet, public interest in the sport has failed to rebound in the nation.<\/p>\n
Stake F1\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg is currently the sole German driver on the grid, with Domenicali believing the European nation deserves a place on the calendar.<\/p>\n
“Money is of secondary importance for now,” Domenicali told SPORT BILD. “The first thing is to know who to talk to at all. We are ready for talks.<\/p>\n
“Germany is Germany and belongs to Formula 1. So if someone is seriously interested, they will find a way to contact me.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
In F1\u2019s history, 64 German Grands Prix have taken place, while several European Grands Prix have also been held on German soil.<\/p>\n
Despite Domenicali\u2019s positive words, time is not on the N\u00fcrburgring\u2019s side, due to immense global interest in hosting F1 races.<\/p>\n
“Time is running out,” declared Domenicali. “There is a long waiting list of companies and even countries, with their prime ministers and kings, who absolutely want a race.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has opened the door to a return to the Nurburgring but warned that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85359,"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-85358","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\/85358","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=85358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}