The Weekly Grapevine
FOM has made no secret of its desire for 20 races on the calendar. Dieter Rencken wonders whether it could really happen
Calendar Blues
It has long been known that Formula One Management is putting the squeeze on teams to accept 19 or even 20 grands prix per year. In the past the maximum number of dates the teams were obliged to accept was 17, where after Bernie Ecclestone's then-group of companies was forced to substantially compensate teams for their extra travel costs.
But, with the expiration of the 1997-2007 Concorde Agreement, Formula One is acting in limbo on many fronts - not least on matters pertaining to the calendar - and thus Ecclestone has no contractual power over the teams to accept 20 dates.
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