Despite reports claiming otherwise, damning reports of the inaugural Korean grand prix falling off the 2010 calendar continue to circle the internet. Now there are even rumours of a potential replacement for the doomed grand prix race.
France’s Auto Hebdo magazine reports that the historic Magny Cours is a potential replacement venue for the Korean grand prix, whose construction works has fallen behind schedule.
Last month, after the Malaysian GP, Bernie Ecclestone visited the site of October’s Korean race and announced to the media that the October date is definately still on.
But as reported, uncertainty over the race continues to persist, and Auto Hebdo reports that teams do not want to see the calendar shrink from the scheduled 19 races at such short notice.
Magny Cours is famously not the F1 chief executive’s favourite venue, but Auto Hebdo says the idea of being a reserve track for Korea is the idea of Gilles Depeigneux, an advisor to French prime minister Francois Fillon.
The stumbling blocks, however, are said to be the EUR20 million budget as well as political opposition.
Source: GMM
