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Article: No GP for Donington.(Sport)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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MOTOR RACING: Bernie Ecclestone categorically confirmed there will be no British Grand Prix at Donington Park.
"There's no Donington,'' the Formula One supremo said.
"They've missed the deadline which we kept extending for them."
Donington's final deadline is understood to have been midnight on Tuesday, despite earlier suggestions it was noon on Monday.
As far as Ecclestone is concerned, the ball is now in Silverstone's court to agree a deal they shied away from 18 months ago and which resulted in Simon Gillett, chief executive of Donington Ventures Leisure, poaching the race from their grasp.
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