Hockenheim demise imminent?
The 2006 calendar could drop to just seventeen Grand Prix this week, with Hockenheim now believed to be financially unable to run a German GP.
With Belgium`s axed Spa Francorchamps reducing the schedule from nineteen races last week, it is now expected that Hockenheim`s July 30 date may be imminently scrapped.
The local Mannheimer Morgen newspaper in Germany has now quoted a participant of recent crisis meetings at the circuit as saying that, `without new money`, Hockenheim does not have the means to continue organisation for the race beyond February.

Hockenheim Mayor and circuit chief Dieter Gummer, however, reportedly rejected the claim, saying that a solution to the crisis is still being worked on.

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