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Ecclestone admits Korean GP unlikely to happen

Korean GP last happened in 2013 Bernie Ecclestone has admitted Korea is unlikely to make its return to the Formula 1 world championship next year, despite the country being listed provisionally as one of 21 races on the FIA's 2015 calendar. Insiders interpreted the sudden appearance of a Korean race with high scepticism, as it is a neat way to give each driver an extra engine next year without having to obtain the unlikely agreement of all the teams. Meeting with a group of reporters in London on Thursday, Formula 1 supremo Ecclestone did not confirm that suspicion but he also agreed that Korea is perhaps unlikely to happen. 'We have a contract with them,' he told Forbes' Formula 1...
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