Interlagos facing Bernie’s axe

The Brazilian Grand Prix may have a contract until 2015, but all-powerful F1 commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone has warned that unless 'significant improvements' are made before then to the Interlagos circuit, he might not be prepared to honor it.

With an ever-greater number of Middle and Far Eastern countries vying for the honor of hosting F1 Рand offering increasingly large sums of government money in order to do so Рit appears the Brazilian Grand Prix's days on the sport's annual calendar may be numbered unless 'significant improvements' are made to the Ṣo Paulo circuit's dilapidated facilities.

“Long ago, in 1972, I believed in Brazil and brought F1 here," the Englishman told the Estada de São Paulo newspaper, “but I can no longer be questioned by the teams about the worst circuit in the championship. The future depends on significant improvements."