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Future of German Grand Prix uncertain

The swathes of empty grandstands on Friday painted a worrying picture, especially as a number had already been covered up - Shanghai style - in an attempt to mask how bad the situation is. The days, at the height of the Schumacher era, when Germany hosted two rounds of the championship, a distant memory, even the presence of Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Nico Hulkenberg and Pascal Wehrlein, not to mention the all-conquering Mercedes team, couldn't put (German) bums on seats. Thankfully attendance improved over the course of the weekend, but even so the 57,000 who attended on Sunday - up on 2014's figure - wasn't enough to reach the reported break-even figure of 75,000. Plans for the race...
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