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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.10.2016 - 8:14 pm
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This course is located near Montreal's St. Lawrence River, in a location
not far from the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve out on the man-made Ile
Notre-Dame in the river, will host the doubleheader season finale of
Formula E's third season. This downtown course races around the Maison
Radio-Canada, a skyscraper that serves as the headquarters of the
Montreal portion of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).


  2.   Seibaru posted:
  12.18.2017 - 3:19 pm
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The Montreal ePrix has been cancelled after only one running. Montreal's
mayor called it a 'financial fiasco'.

Considering Montreal made it pretty clear when dropping the NASCAR race
that they only want one weekend of racing, you have to wonder...what
were they thinking with this ePrix?


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.12.2018 - 2:20 pm
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Track location: Montreal, Quebec

This was the first track in Canada to host a Formula E race. Canada was
the third North American country to host an ePrix, the United States had
already hosted street races in Long Beach, Miami, and Brooklyn while
Mexico had a round at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.


  4.   Canadianfan posted:
  04.19.2021 - 2:40 pm
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From Norris McDonald:

Article excerpt

It had its first chance in Montreal in 2017. The mayor of the day, Denis
Coderre, rolled out the red carpet. Formula E wants only to race on city
streets, so it turned up its nose at racing on the city's permanent
Grand Prix course on the Ilse Notre-Dame. Coderre said okay and agreed
to block off many of the streets in downtown Montreal, which angered the
people who live there.

He signed a contract agreeing to pay the series $24 million over six
years, plus expenses, to show up. He paved the streets so the formula
cars could race on a smooth surface. By the time F-E left town, $6.2
million earmarked for suppliers hadn't been paid and a line of credit
had been tapped into for $9.5 million.

Coderre was soundly defeated in that autumn's municipal election, which
was fought, in large part, over the Formula E race. But the new mayor,
Valerie Plante, had no idea how deep the damage ran. She nearly suffered
a breakdown when she discovered Montreal was on the hook for $35 million
to bring Formula E back to the city in 2018.

Take a hike, she said. We have a contract, F-E said. They are still
arguing in court.


  5.   Unser1 posted:
  04.20.2021 - 7:08 am
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@4
It's interesting to see just how much what looked like a good idea on
paper fast turned out not to be so. That's an interesting update. I
certainly can't see this track coming back no matter how it turns out in
court.

Montreal has had some tough luck with sporting events. While Formula E
was a fiasco it pales in comparison to how much the 1976 Summer Olympics
overran its budget; the main cutting edge Olympic Stadium was supposed
to cost $250 million but ended up overrunning to $1.4 billion and it
still never quite worked as initially planned.


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