With Valencia already asking for a reduced race fee, the fate of Spain’s other formula one event has also fallen under a cloud.<\/p>\n
The economics minister of the Catalonia region, Andreu Mas-Colell, told Rac1 radio that the situation for Barcelona’s Spanish grand prix is “the same as in Valencia”.<\/p>\n
“In the present conditions we have to look line by line at how we are spending money.\u00a0 We have spent a lot on F1 and at the moment it’s unclear what we can afford,” he said, referring to Europe’s economic crisis.<\/p>\n
But the sports newspaper Marca cited sources at the Circuit de Catalunya as saying the F1 and MotoGP races scheduled for 2012 are “guaranteed” at least.<\/p>\n
Beyond that, “There are contracts that are more expensive to maintain than to break”, Mas-Colell insisted.<\/p>\n
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