Monza future still uncertain, says Ecclestone

LONDON: The future of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza remains uncertain after this year with Formula One’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone saying on Friday that a deal had become more complicated.

The historic circuit near Milan, which has been on the calendar every year bar one since the championship started in 1950, will host Italy’s only race in September but has no contract beyond 2016.”It’s Italian. A lot of conversations at the moment and not much action,” the 85-year-old Ecclestone told Reuters when asked about ongoing negotiations.

“They said to me a few months ago ‘everything is sorted out and we know exactly where we are and it’s all agreed and no dramas’,” added the Briton.

“And now I heard yesterday it’s become very political. They’ll get on with it. Nothing we can do about it,” he said.

Roberto Maroni, president of the Lombardy region, said in September that he was 99.9 percent sure a deal would be done by the end of 2015 after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lent his support.