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Turkey, Greece eye spots on F1 calendar
By Editor on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Turkey could return to the F1 calendar.
Between 2005 and last year, despite poor spectator attendance, drivers enjoyed the Hermann Tilke-designed Istanbul layout, featuring the unique quadruple-apex Turn 8.
But the race was not included on the 2012 schedule, after organisers and F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone disagreed over the sanctioning fee.
81-year-old Ecclestone, however, said on Wednesday that he, the teams and the FIA are 'happy' to go to Turkey.
He told the major daily Haberturk: 'If we can solve this (fee) problem, Turkey can return to the F1 calendar.'
It is not known if the news is linked with recent reports that, amid Greece's...
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