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Mexican GP prospects for 2020 look bleak once again

It looks increasingly likely that Mexico will fall off Formula 1's calendar next year, following the country's inability to secure a deal with Liberty Media. In February, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador revealed that he would in all likelihood pull the plug on the government's funding of the Mexican Grand Prix. That peril has come to pass after the event's organizer, the Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento, failed to convince the government to commit to an annual 800 million pesos subsidy associated with the race. Subsequently, the CIE could not reach an agreement with F1 commercial rights holder Liberty Media for an extension of its current deal which ends after...
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