The makers at the Hockenheimring consider a future return of Formula 1 to Germany to be conceivable.
“Currently the pressure after a German Grand Prix is great, so that Formula 1 came to us and wants to talk,” said managing director Jorn Teske of the news portal “watson”: “There are signals from the racing series that something like this is conceivable in the future. But they are signals. Nothing more and nothing less.”
The last scheduled Grand Prix of Germany took place in Hockenheim in 2019, and the Nürburgring also found a place in the improvised Corona calendar for 2020.
For the two German circuits, however, the financial risk is now basically too high, since the organizers have to pay entry fees in the double-digit million range to Formula 1.
“The big problem is that we as the Hockenheimring could not refinance this entry fee through ticket sales. It would be a negative business,” said Teske.
It therefore needs partners who are willing to “spread the risk on different shoulders”: “It cannot be that all players want to earn money in Formula 1, only the racetrack makes a minus.”
So far, the necessary help has not come from politics either, although a German Grand Prix certainly offers opportunities. “All calls have faded away, across all political colors,” said Teske, “it annoys me because a Formula 1 weekend also creates added value.”
Audi’s entry as a factory team in 2026 gives a little hope. This could “enliven the debate,” said Teske.