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No sooner had Normand Legault said Monday that Grand Prix F1 du Canada Inc. and F1's governing body had reached a settlement in their financial dispute, then Mayor Gerald Tremblay and Finance Minister Raymond Bachand both said that this type of statement was premature.

A press conference was supposed to take place last Thursday confirming the reports that the F1 would indeed be back in Montreal for the next five years starting in 2010, however many different issues caused a delay in said conference.

I had a chance to speak with Pierro Facchin, formerly the host of Sportivi, an Italian language sports talk show on CJNT Global. He has been following the F1 all his life and had been chronicling the evolution of the sport as well as it's growth right here in Montreal.

We spoke of the issues that made the F1 pick up and leave Montreal as well as what was set up as far as terms for them coming back to Montreal. We also debate whether the F1 needs Montreal more than the other way around and I ask him the question extraordinaire: F1 or Nascar!

Here is the 16 minute conversation we had together, which previously aired on our show, "The Franchise" on Montreal's Team 990.

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