The German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring is an immensely popular event, attracting over 100,000 fans on race day and some quarter of a million visitors over the three days of the MotoGP weekend. So it comes as something of a surprise to learn that 2011 could be the last year that the German MotoGP round is held at the track in Saxony, as according to the German tabloid Bild, the race could be moved elsewhere in Germany, if Dorna and the track owners - the Saxon branch of ADAC, the German equivalent of the Automobile Association - cannot reach agreement on the sanctioning fee for the event.
The Sachsenring's contract with the FIM to host the event runs out at the end of 2011, and according to Bild, Dorna is looking to double the sanctioning fee, raising it from 2 million to 4 million euros from 2012 onwards. That may put the event out of the financial reach of the Saxon branch of ADAC, leaving the German Grand Prix to move to another location. The Sachsenring is very keen to host the event, the ADAC's spokesperson Klaus Klötzner told Bild, but not at any price. Preliminary talks had been started, Klötzner reported, but the outcome was far from certain.
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http://www.bild.de/regional/dresden/moto-gp/moto-gp-auf-dem-sachsenring-...
http://www.racesport.nl/MotoGP/MotoGP/einde-voor-grand-prix-op-sachsenri...
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