Most likely, this year the calendar of Formula 1 will be reduced from 20 to 19 stages. Hits one of the oldest, respected and popular in Europe stages of the Grand Prix of Germany. As told in an interview with Bild, the Director of the Hockenheim Georg Seiler, the race proved to be impossible due to the lack of time to prepare.
We wanted to spend the GP of Germany at Hockenheim, although initially this had not come prepared, " he said. But the time for the organization of the event was: now we will not be able to arrange everything properly. The Manager added that the organizers did not leave enough time for ticket sales, so as to achieve relatively modest last year's result (52 000 people on Sunday) would not have been possible in any case. Review Bernie Ecclestone to this news so far failed to obtain.
Recall that the formulae Germany fever for the first year. In 2014 the race attendance has fallen dramatically since the German fans was interesting primarily for their idol Michael Schumacher (who was injured the previous winter). However, Shumi in F1 now will never see; in addition, the Nurburgring, which is pre-calculated Ecclestone, several times passed from hand to hand and eventually was owned by a Russian businessman.
Negotiations with Hockenheim (which, recall, was the scene of the Grand Prix of Germany from 1986 to 2006, and in 2014) were held only in January, and the preliminary date of the race was appointed on July 19. Six months is very small for an event of this magnitude, so Herr Seiler can understand. Will the FOM to fill in the gap, or we really will be left without one leg of the Formula 1?