Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Formula 1
Formula 1 Photo: digitalstorm/DepositPhotos
Business
Sports
Formula 1
Zandvoort
Circuit Zandvoort
Jan Lammers
Formula One Management
Formula One Group
Grand Prix
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 08:44
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

F1 set to return to Netherlands in five year deal; too early to celebrate, director says

The Zandvoort circuit reached a five-year agreement with the Formula One Group that will bring the Grand Prix back to the Netherlands as early as next year, magazine Motorsportweek reports based on sources. Jan Lammers, the intended sporting director of the Dutch Grand Prix, calls the news premature. 

According to Motorsportweek, the first Formula 1 race at the Zandvoort circuit since 1985 will likely happen in the spring of next year. A source also confirmed this to newspaper De Limburger. The deal is expected to be officially announced next week, the newspaper writes. 

But according to Lammers, it is too early to celebrate. "That is still premature. We are on the right track, but we are still working on the details", he said to ANP on Monday. "I hope that it is a very reliable source. It is also very nice to hear these rumors. But I think they're a little bit ahead of the troops. It is not up to us to announce this. You have to do something like this carefully."

Lammers stressed that the Formula 1 is not only about Zandvoort. "They have 21 or 22 races. When everything is complete, we will probably come out with the news together. But it is not there yet. We are optimistic though."

The organization behind the Zandvoort circuit also could not confirm the Motorsportweek and De Limburger reports. Sources around the management told RTL Nieuws that the reports are premature and that talks are still ongoing. 

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Man harasses 13-year-old girl at basketball court
  • Witnesses sought in mistaken identity assassination
  • Gov't won't pay damages in poison egg scandal, court rules
  • Vitamin D's effect on Covid-19 still unclear, Health Council sais
  • Coronavirus average hits new five-week high
  • Torture chamber suspects were planning at least 7 murders: Prosecutor

Top Stories

  • Coronavirus average hits new five-week high
  • Explosion at Covid test center in Noord-Holland town
  • Dutch Health Min: All who want Covid vaccination can get first shot by July
  • Hairdressers open again as lockdown measures relax
  • Weekly figures show 26% rise in 1st Covid vaccinations, 52% rise in 2nd doses
  • Dutch Covid hospitalizations up for third day with further increase expected

© 2012-2021 NLTimes.nl, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact