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The Formula E is looking like an event without a home.

Administrators at Société Parc Jean-Drapeau said Thursday the race won’t be held on Île Notre-Dame where the Formula One race is held annually.

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“It won’t be in 2018, and the (Plante) administration is aware,” said Geneviève Boyer, the communications chief for the city-owned organization that runs events on Île-Notre-Dame and Île-Ste-Hélène.

During the election campaign, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante promised to move the race, held downtown last July, to Parc Jean-Drapeau.

Boyer said it is not possible to hold the race on the man-made islands next year because of a $52-million project to renovate the paddocks and garages for the Formula One race that will start right after that event is held in Montreal June 8-10. The 10-month project must be done over the course of the summer, and that means it won’t be available for the Formula E race, scheduled for July.