No Lugano ePrix in 2016
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Formula E won’t be going to Switzerland in 2016, according to local media. Organisers have been unable to raise the funds needed to host the ePrix by the November deadline.
Local promoters haven’t been able to secure the 12.5 million Franc needed for the event, according to Ticino News. Lugano city hall explained that “it is hard to find the money needed for events of this magnitude in such a short space of time”. The deadline to raise the money was already extended by a month to the 30th of November back in September.
Though plans for the ePrix, which would be have been held between the Paris and Berlin rounds of the 2015-16 season, have failed, there is still hope Lugano will join the calendar in season three.
If and when Formula E heads to Switzerland, it will be the first time a motor race has happened in the country since the sport was banned after the 1955 Le Mans disaster. The laws were relaxed earlier this year to allow electric racing.
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