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Is the future of the Las Vegas Grand Prix uncertain? 'There is no contract'
After much commotion, the Las Vegas Grand Prix full of glitz and glamour took place for the first time last year. The deal to host a race there was supposedly set for three years. Now it has only come out that no contract was ever officially signed.
F1 drivers were initially sceptical about a Grand Prix in Las Vegas. According to them, it would be too much about putting on a show and not enough about real racing. In the end, the race in the US state of Nevada was perhaps one of the most exciting races of the past season. Indeed, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc managed to keep up with, or even overtake, the Red Bulls for much of the race.
After the race in the gambling city surprised many, the circuit is therefore more than welcome on the F1 calendar. A three-year deal was reportedly struck between the Grand Prix organisers and Formula 1, but the Las Vegas Review-Journal has brought out that no deal was ever officially signed.
No official contract for Las Vegas
Clark County, the region in which Las Vegas is located, did give permission to host the Grand Prix for 10 years, but it never signed a contract to guarantee the hosting of the Grand Prix every year. Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom thinks it is important that this will still officially happen. "It turns out that we never signed a contract — that was all with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. So everybody keeps saying that we’ve got three years. We never committed to three years, to my knowledge.”