Confusion about WTCC race during Macau Grand Prix sponsorship presentation

There is contradictory information about whether or not the Macau Grand Prix will host the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in its upcoming 64th edition, scheduled to be held from November 16 to 19 this year.
Speaking on the sidelines of a press conference held yesterday to announce that junket operator Suncity Group will be the event title sponsor for the fourth consecutive year of the Macau Grand Prix, the President of the Sports Bureau, Pun Weng Kun, said in addressing an enquiry from the media that the WTCC race is not a done deal this November.
“We have not committed to anyone in addition to the World Cup GT [Cup] and the [FIA] F3 [World Cup]. We have not committed to the other race,” he said.
Yet, on both the WTCC website and the website of the International Federation of Automobile (FIA), the touring car race appears as scheduled to take place in Macau this year.
We tried to contact the WTCC Media Centre in the U.K. by email and telephone but could not get a confirmation before this story went to print.
Pun said several races are willing to come to Macau, acknowledging that WTCC may be among them, adding that while “those from outside Macau have their [intention] the [Macau Grand Prix Organizing] Committee has still to deliberate if those [races] have an interest for Macau.”
“As I said earlier, we only have two World Cups. The Macau GP is well known. So many races want to be part of it, and our committee has to consider and decide which ones are more beneficial to Macau,” the Sports Bureau President concluded.

Smoothing out operations
Pun Weng Kun also told reporters that the budget for this year’s Grand Prix, of some MOP200 million (HK$194.17 million/US$24.92 million), is similar to that of 2016.
In addition to Suncity Group, the main sponsor of the event, the other two principal sponsors are Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM), which will sponsor the Macau GT Cup, and Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau (CTM), sponsor of the Macau Touring Car Cup.
In reply to questions by the press, the Sports Bureau President said that they are working this year to improve the infrastructure.
“In fact, last year, after the GP, the Committee initiated meetings to discuss which aspects, and what situations, should be improved. We will add more movable doors to facilitate people’s arrival and exit so that when the races finish we can move in a faster fashion to open the roads to the population,” Pun explained.