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Race against time to build new pits for Canadian GP

The City of Montreal has acknowledged that time is tight to deliver the promised new pit and paddock complex ahead of the 2016 Canadian grand prix. The race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is promoted privately by a company called Octane, but a new ten-year contract signed with F1 last year required the City to fund new garages for the teams at the ageing facility. Montreal promised the delivery of the work by 2017, but the president of the city's executive committee, Pierre Desrochers, admitted that time is 'tight'. 'For sure the schedule is tight, but we have always worked according to this target,' he told the Quebec newspaper La Presse. 'At this stage, it is our goal to do so. We...
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