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MONTREAL, Aug 8: The Canadian Grand Prix has been taken off next season’s Formula One calendar, race promoter Normand Legault announced here on Thursday.
Legault told a press conference that he had received a letter from F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone confirming that the Montreal race did not figure on the 2004 Formula One menu.
The omission of the race at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit is due to tough new laws curbing tobacco advertising at sporting events set to be introduced here on Oct 1.
News of Canada’s demise came one week after the 2004 Belgium GP at Spa-Francorchamps was reinstated a year after it was stripped of its F1 status.—AFP
