Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that this year's German GP will take place at Hockenheim, rather than at the Nurburgring.
Although the FIA did not specify a venue in the F1 calendar, this year should have been the turn of the Nurburgring, which last hosted the race in 2013. However Ecclestone has not concluded a deal with the track, which has changed ownership amid serious financial problems.
“It's going to be at Hockenheim, we're in the middle of doing something with them,” he told Reuters. “It can't be Nurburgring because there's nobody there. We've got a contract in place [with Hockenheim], we just have to amend the years of the contract. It was alternating with Nurburgring so we'll just take that out. Providing the contract goes through as we expect it to, we'll be in good shape.”
Ecclestone confirmed that he'd tried to acquire the Nurburgring.
“We wanted to buy the Nurburgring, we made an offer and somebody topped us with a few dollars and bought it. And then they couldn't pay and it went on sale again. I said I'd be interested and then they found somebody else. So I don't know what's happening.”
