The last German GP was held at Hockenheim in 2019, while the Nurburgring hosted the one-off Eifel GP during the first COVID-affected season in 2020.
The latter event happened only because cheap deals were available to circuits at the time to fill holes on the calendar, but any future event will have to be commercially attractive to F1.
Hockenheim is known to have expressed an interest in filling the September date left open this year by the cancelled Russian GP, although logistics mean that it’s impossible to use a European venue immediately before the Singapore and Japanese GPs.
Asked about the possibility of a race in Germany, Domencali made a clear reference to the VW Group’s entry.
“The German landscape is for sure a very interesting landscape,” he said in a call with Wall Street analysts. “No matter who will be the promoter, we need to see what could be the action, if needed, that we can recover that in the calendar.
“I’m sure if you want to be specific on that, something that could happen soon could be very important [for it] to be back on the calendar.”
However, former world champion Sebastian Vettel remains doubtful that one of the German venues can afford to hold a grand prix.
“I think in the end it you look at the places where we are going Germany is not prepared to pay that sort of money to have the grand prix,” he said. “Other regions and other countries in Europe are struggling.
“It’s a shame losing out in Germany, it would be a shame losing out in Spa, it would be a shame losing out in Spain, which there was a lot of talk about. If those countries are not ready to pay the high entry fees any more, they will fall off that list.
“We’ll see what will happen in the next years, but it would be great if Germany was back on the calendar.”
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG F1 W10, and Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB15, lead the field away at the start
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