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Montreal Grand Prix is no more.
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| elFreak |
This city just gets tier and ter :(
Montreal dropped from 2009 Grand Prix calendar
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
MONTREAL - The Canadian Grand Prix, the only North American stop on the Formula One circuit, has been dropped from the 2009 schedule.
The International Automobile Federation announced a revised schedule on Tuesday for the 2009 season, moving the Turkish Grand Prix from August to June, replacing the originally scheduled June 7 race at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Ile Notre-Dame.
No reason for the decision was announced.
A representative from the Montreal Grand Prix was unavailable for comment.
"I'm surprised, but not completely.said Roger Peart, president of ASN Canada FIA which governs amateur and professional motorsport in the country and who designed the track at Ile Notre Dame. He also is an FIA delegate has been president of the FIA Circuits Commission (formerly the Circuits & Safety Commission)in Paris.
"The commercial side of the sport is moving on to more glamourous venues. I don't mean the city of Montreal as far as that, but the facilities themselves. (Some) like Montreal are not world leaders anymore. so it's a purely commercial matter unfortunately.
"It's a done deal. It was voted on today by the world council and that's really the end of it."
The Montreal race, which has been part of the Formula One world championship calendar since 1967, was the last remaining North American race on the F1 schedule. The United States Grand Prix, which was held in Indianapolis, was dropped prior to the 2008 season.
Tuesday's revision now allows teams a summer break following the Budapest, Hungary race on July 26. Racing resumes with the Valencia, Spain race on Aug. 23.
The decision also allows the series to remain at 18 races, one less than the 19 announced when the provisional schedule was released in June. The season finale will take place on Nov. 15 in Abu Dhabi.
The last time the race was not held in Montreal was 1987, due to a sponsorship dispute between Labatt and Molson.
Gilles Villeneuve was the first winner of the event when it moved permanently from Mosport Park to Ile Notre-Dame in 1978. The track was renamed in his honour in 1982, a few weeks after Villeneuve was killed in the final qualifying lap of the Belgian Grand Prix. |
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| julien2 |
Bread and circuses. Good riddance. |
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| elFreak |
do you have any idea how much money this brings in for the city's businesses?
not good riddance even if you hate the sport. (i am not a fan)
more and more a once world class city becomes closer and closer to being something like ing hamilton. |
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| Spin Laden |
| quote: |
"The commercial side of the sport is moving on to more glamourous venues. I don't mean the city of Montreal as far as that, but the facilities themselves. (Some) like Montreal are not world leaders anymore. so it's a purely commercial matter unfortunately.
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| Leif |
| The drivers were probably also tired of the pavement ripping apart as well as having to dodge gophers... |
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| nchs09 |
| It will probably come back, F1 is iffy like that. The U.S. gran rix got scrapped but its coming back in 2010 |
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| malek |
its an extortion attempt by the F1 clowns... one week before federal elections...
it's the third time they do this in about 5 years:rolleyes:
Be prepared to send more of your tax money in the pocket of these bozos. |
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| Mr Moss |
| not a bad strategy either.. |
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| julien2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
do you have any idea how much money this brings in for the city's businesses?
not good riddance even if you hate the sport. (i am not a fan)
more and more a once world class city becomes closer and closer to being something like ing hamilton. |
i do know. just trying to stir some .
the fact is formula 1 is an awful sport.
the fact is we just lost millions in income and a lot in visibility.
Good riddance though for grand prix.
this might just be an eye opener. that we need some big events, but not an event close to gladiators and roman chariot races. we need to cultivate the "french touch" to bring tourism back to montreal. Make the tourist feel what is Montreal, not the same thing he can experience anywhere on the F1 circuit.
Good riddance F1. Welcome new major cultural event. |
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| Marcus007 |
| clubs r crying :*( |
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| tbones |
| I don't follow racing at all but GP weekend is one of my favourite times of year. It's too bad :( |
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| okees |
| quote: | Originally posted by julien2
Welcome new major cultural event. |
I doubt any cultural events would be set up in Montreal anytime soon. They cant even get the ones they have properly done. The jazz festival hardly includes jazz anymore, the theatre is lacking any major performances, heck even the massives we have around here are iffy. So to lose a thing like the F1 is just another amazing way of screwing up this city. The city should have fought more for it. But hey, they cant even pave a road properly, how can we expect them to pave an F1 track properly? they just did the traditional montreal way of fixing things.. fill up the pot holes.
God damn its gonna be missed. |
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