The future of the Mexican Grand Prix has been put in yet more jeopardy after it was revealed their claim to a 2020 calendar date has been lost.
Current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently claimed government funding the race receives will likely be stopped as part of a new austerity program with money to be diverted elsewhere.
But while negotiations over a new contract with Liberty Media continue, organisers have noted a key deadline has passed.
“We announce that the organisation of the Gran Premio de Mexico has lost the perennial right to keep that date within the 2020 championship,” a statement read.
“[This is] notwithstanding the negotiations with both F1 and the authorities of our country [which] continue with the best spirit of finding viable alternatives for the remainder of this competition in Mexico.”
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The race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City has become very popular in the four years that it has hosted F1 since returning in 2015 so to see its demise would be a blow for the sport.
This also comes in a big year for the future of many traditional Grands Prix too, with Silverstone, Monza and Hockenheim to name just three in the final year of their current F1 contracts.
