F1 Teams Angry At Canada Snub
The decision to drop Canada from the F1 calendar and consequently omit the North American market in its entirety has been met with anger from team bosses.
The FIA which runs the sport announced that Canada would be dropped as an F1 race venue from 2009 making way for Abu Dhabi to join the calendar.
Honda team principal Nick Fry is one of a number of F1 team bosses to voice their concern at the move stating: ‘We are hugely disappointed. It will be a major topic at the next meeting of teams.
‘Really we need to look at how we not only get back Canada, but back to America – potentially more than once, because it’s such an important market.’
Toyota president John Howlett added: ‘Hopefully in the next four years we can establish a real race in the US.’
And BMW team principal Mario Thiessen advocated having a ‘Canadian race and at least one US one’.
The removal of Canada from F1 follows on a year after the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis was dropped.
The loss of Canada means the F1 calendar will stay at 18 races rather than the record-breaking 19 that had been expected for 2009.
