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Analysis: Azerbaijan's plan to make the F1 race pay off
Azerbaijan will be joining the F1 calendar next year but, without any racing culture and very limited availability of tickets, can the new European GP become a success story? Kate Walker investigates. The current era of Formula 1 can be seen as a period of expansion, with the sport adding new countries to the calendar on a quasi-annual basis since the turn of the millennium. The next new entry on the F1 calendar will be the Grand Prix of Europe (Azerbaijan), set to take place on the streets of Baku in 2016. F1's new venues have had varying degrees of success, with modern classic Singapore the shining example of how to get it right and a long list of white elephants (India, South Korea,...
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