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Mexico misses initial deadline to stay in F1

The Mexican Grand Prix is under increased risk of crashing out of the Formula 1 world championship in 2020 after missing a major deadline. The future of the event has been in doubt ever since a new federal government indicated that it would not continue to provide public funds to support the race, despite the money it brings into the region. “I do not know how the F1 contracts are. If they are not signed, we will not be able to," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said last month. "We are going to review them." He indicated that funds previously earmarked to support the event are now being diverted into the flagship Mayan train civil construction project. Perez: Loss of...
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