A top FIA official has played down “noise” suggesting Madrid is in pole position to replace the current Spanish GP host at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. “The first request would be to the Spanish federation and then to the FIA. Then the commercial proposal would go to FOM,” said de Barros. He also said Barcelona’s Spanish GP is not in doubt at all because “both the FIA and FOM have the habit of fulfilling our contracts”. In Spain we had two, with Barcelona and Valencia, not so long ago,” he said. “In fact, there could be two and even three,” the FIA president smiled, referring to his meetings in Barcelona with a delegation from Jerez.

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