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Brazil ramps up efforts to keep grand prix

Nov.13 Organisers of the Brazilian grand prix have ramped up efforts to keep Interlagos on the F1 calendar. The contract expires in 2020, but local government says it intends to privatise the circuit in the meantime. "The race is important for the city. It is in everyone's interest to keep it," Sao Paulo mayor Bruno Covas told Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. But the problem is not only bureaucratic and financial, involving complex negotiations with Liberty Media. The Brazilian grand prix has also been under the spotlight in recent years following a spate of violent robberies on F1 personnel travelling to and from the track. But there were no high-profile incidents last weekend, with...
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