From GMM
Hockenheim's boss says he is "1,000 per cent" sure the German grand prix will return in 2016. After failing to rescue this year's event, Bernie Ecclestone said recently there is also no guarantee Hockenheim will return to the 2016 calendar, despite its bi-annual contract. But when asked about the 2016 German grand prix, Hockenheim chief Georg Seiler said he is "100, even 1,000 per cent sure" it will happen. "For next year we have an agreement and we always respect our contracts," he told the German news agency SID. As for Ecclestone's claim that Germany might in fact not be back in 2016, Seiler answered: "I have a good relationship with Bernie Ecclestone," indicating that there are no official signs of a problem. But he also said it is up to formula one to put on a good show. "Formula one has to be good, then the spectators will come," said Seiler. "No one comes for the support programme." "We still have a contract for next year," Georg Seiler told the Swiss newspaper Blick in Barcelona, "and we will honour it." Hockenheim only became embroiled in the 2015 saga when the originally-scheduled German GP host, the Nurburgring, ran into its now well-known ownership troubles. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone held talks with Hockenheim about standing in at short notice. "For many people," Seiler explained, "we were now the bad guys because of what happened to the German grand prix for this year. "But if the Nurburgring suddenly cancels and we are the only alternative, it is simply too late for us to make a reasonable organisation in March," he added.
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