News Details

Montreal extends F1 deal for ten more years

The Canadian Grand Prix is staying in Montreal through 2024. Formula One announced on Saturday it has reached an agreement with the Montreal, Quebec and Canadian governments to keep the race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for another ten years. The Canadian Grand Prix was first run on the track on the Ile Notre Dame in the St. Lawrence River in 1978. The governments agreed to share a $17 million (about U.S. $15.56 million) annual payment that will total $187 (U.S. $171.14 million) million over the term of the agreement. They will recoup part of their costs through a share of ticket sales. The city of Montreal also agreed to pay another $30 million (U.S. $27.5 million) to renovate the...
Full Story »
11y ago from F1Pulse.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Canadian Grand Prix: McLaren preview Montreal weekend

Jenson Button This weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix is Formula 1’s first...
11y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Canadian Grand PrixView

The European season takes a short break this weekend for the paddock to...
11y ago from F1Zone.net

Montreal long term F1 deal set to be announced

A long term Canadian Grand Prix deal is on the verge of being signed and...
11y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Canada agrees 10-year F1 deal

Formula 1 will return to Montreal and the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for...
11y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar officiating board helps shape Push to Pass...

IndyCar’s new Independent Officiating Board has made one of its first...

IndyCar expands Push to Pass availability

The NTT IndyCar Series has announced a change to the series’ Push to...

Motorsport legend Alex Zanardi dies aged 59

Ex-F1 and CART driver Alex Zanardi has passed away aged 59. His family...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Crazy supercomputer prediction names Premier League...

A supercomputer has predicted how the Premier League finale will play out,...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Alan Shearer makes Arsenal Premier League title...

Alan Shearer has backed Arsenal to beat Manchester City in the Premier...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

5-year-contract: Journo drops transfer bombshell for...

Bayern Munich are wasting absolutely no time making their intentions clear...
8h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.