Hockenheim and Nurburgring to disappear from the F1 calendar?

Another venue on the Formula One calendar is in trouble as Hockenheim is unlikely to host the 2010 German Grand Prix. This was declared by Hockenheim's boss Karl-Josef Schmidt in the newspaper 'Der Tagesspiegel'.

Schmidt said: "Without grants from the state there will be no more Formula One in Hockenheim."

If Hockenheim disappears from the F1 calendar, Nurbürgring might not be able to host the German GP as well. Both circuits are in a rotating system and the General Manager of the Nurburgring, Walter Kafitz, said that the circuit is not in a position to host the GP every year.

Kafitz declared in the 'Deutche Presse-Agentur dpa': "We cannot afford that. Formula one will disappear not just from Hockenheim but from Germany as a whole. Then it will only be run in Arab countries."