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Ecclestone casts doubt on Singapore future

Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that he thinks it unlikely that Singapore will renew its contract once it runs out at the end of 2017. The first ever night race on the F1 calendar, the first Singapore (F1) Grand Prix was held on the Marina Bay Street Circuit in 2008. Popular with fans, if not all the drivers, every running of the event has seen a Safety Car, not least the 2009 event which saw Nelson Piquet deliberately crash in order to aid teammate Fernando Alonso, the infamous incident forever known as Crash-gate. In 2012, with a year of the initial contract still to run, Bernie Ecclestone and organisers agreed a new deal which would keep the event on the calendar until the end of 2017....
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