Belgian GP’s fate in doubt in licence row

THE future of the Belgian Grand Prix would again appear to be up in the air as the Spa-Francorchamps circuit has had its operating licence suspended for the next 17 years.

The decision comes from the Council of State, effectively Belgium’s supreme administrative court, after a noise complaint was made by a board of local residents in 2007.

It resulted in the track operators being ordered to undertake an environmental impact study, which has been described in a Council of State ruling as “seriously inadequate and incomplete”.