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Ecclestone: Azerbaijan deal 'has been signed'
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has revealed to British newspaper The Independent that the Korean Grand Prix will be kept off the calendar next season to make way for a new race in Azerbaijan.
South Korea hosted a race between 2010 and 2013 at a 3.5 mile circuit near Yeongam, 200 miles from the country's capital city Seoul. After complaints about poor facilities and low attendance figures, it was removed from the 2014 calendar in December.
Talking to The Independent about the race in Korea, he said: 'I don't want to go back there. They did a good job with the track but what they forgot to do was build all the things they wanted to build.'
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