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Promoter says Montreal ghost race ‘impossible'
Apr.30 Canadian GP organisers couldn't afford to push ahead with a Formula 1 ‘ghost race' this year. Ultimately, it was governments' insistence that F1 personnel spend 14 days in quarantine that made racing in Montreal impossible for the sport in 2021. But promoter Francois Dumontier said even a spectator-free event wouldn't have worked. 'I couldn't open a room and light it up without having someone to occupy it,' he told Le Journal de Montreal. 'It was impossible for us to do it without the presence of spectators.' Dumontier also played down rumours that Canada could have been permanently stricken from the sport's calendar if the two blank years – 2020 and 2021 – were...
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