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Montreal ‘missed opportunity’ with potential October event – promotor

by Phillip Horton
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Montreal ‘missed opportunity’ with potential October event – promotor

Montreal city atmosphere. Canadian Grand Prix, Thursday 7th June 2018. Montreal, Canada.

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The promotor of Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix believes an October event would have been a “great opportunity” for Montreal, and criticised local officials for a lack of support.

The Canadian Grand Prix has been held at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve since the late 1970s and its June round was initially postponed, rather than cancelled, back in April.

Organisers remained hopeful that the event could be rescheduled for October, prior to the onset of winter in the region, but proposals ultimately failed to reach a successful conclusion.

Last week Formula 1 confirmed that all four of its events in the Americas were cancelled for 2020, with rounds instead scheduled in Germany, Portugal and Italy.

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The grand prix is one of Montreal’s leading annual events, with the city playing a role in its funding, and its contract currently runs through 2029.

“People are talking about the difficulties of downtown Montreal,” Canadian Grand Prix President Francois Dumontier told French-language publication La Presse.

“Here [there] are no activities, the hotels are practically empty – and I believe that a race in October could have put Montreal back on the map.

“F1 still travels with 2,000-2,200 people every race weekend, so 2,200 hotel rooms could have been rented during that time.

“It would have been a great opportunity to promote Montreal.”

Dumontier expressed understanding that any trans-Atlantic trip had to be financially viable for all involved, but hit out at local authorities for a perceived lack of effort.

“For the moment, we know that the ban on sporting or cultural events is valid in Quebec until August 31,” he said. “Will it be extended? We don’t know yet.

“What I find unfortunate is that we worked for weeks on a plan, fleshed out, after consulting the plans of American and European organisations, but that we did not receive any local support to do so.

“What I regret is that as of today, no one has called me back to tell me whether the plan was good or not, to make recommendations or not. And this will add to the missed opportunity.”

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  1. Neil Henderson says:
    5 years ago

    ahhhh montreal & quebec politics; such a joke and a shame, but as it stands no way should montreal be holding an F1 race. montreal ( and most of quebec ) have completely screwed up with respect to covid protocols. as of this writing i believe that montreal is – per capita – one of the worst managed covid regions in the entire world ! some of it circumstantial i know but most of it was just a terrible horrible & absolute disaster from stem to stern. estimates of out of town revenue run at approximately $100 Million and apparently province wide locals contribute that much again. revenue estimates in austin have been as high as $700 Million. too bad so sad.

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  2. Dennis Linden says:
    5 years ago

    Right Neil. My group of companions will NOT be visiting Montreal anytime soon. Covid is rampant in Quebec but more importantly, the hotels where reservations have been made, the BW Ville Marie in particular declines to offer any refunds to those of us who booked last year! They are using the non cancellation clause, but WE didn’t cancel anything. We can’t travel there, there is no “high demand event” there and yet they simply refuse to offer refunds. That attitude means Austin and even Mexico City become more interesting to a whole lot of the American Audience. The hoods and thieves of Montreal wont get a piece of our purse again.. too bad, it is a lovely place, just corrupt as hell.

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