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Interlagos to stay on calendar as mayor promises revamp
19 April, 2013 Start of 2011 Brazilian GP
The Brazilian Grand Prix is set to stay at Sao Paulo's ramshackle but atmospheric Interlagos circuit after the city mayor assured Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone that it would be given a revamp.
Ecclestone had said the only race in South America could switch to Rio de Janeiro but the 82-year-old told reporters at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday that mayor Fernando Haddad had intervened.
'I've just received a letter from the mayor and he's guaranteed to revamp the whole facilities there, which will be good, we've been waiting long enough,' he said.
'If Sao Paulo do what they say they're going to do then we don't need to move.'
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