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Malaysia will not renew contract

Malaysia will not be seeking to renew its contract once the current agreement expires in 2018. After weeks of speculation, organisers in Malaysia have confirmed that the contract to hold the Malaysia Grand Prix will not be renewed once it expires in 2018. 'After 2018 no longer,' the Malaysia the tourism and culture minister Nazri Abdul Aziz told reporters in parliament when asked about the future of the event. 'From the longer term perspective, it's probably the correct decision because it's more expensive and no longer that attractive,' he insisted, according to Reuters. Talk of the event being dropped first emerged last month when sports minister Khairy Jamaluddin took to Twitter to...
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