'Noises, Fellings and Nuisances': Neighbors Face the Formula 1 Circuit in Madrid

Families of neighborhoods of Hortaleza or Valdebebas are concerned about how the future urban circuit of Formula 1 of Madrid, which aims to host the Spanish Grand Prix since 2026, can affect them. They talk about noise, felling hundreds of trees and "waste of public funds". Therefore, together with various associations and citizen entities, several dozens of neighbors have constituted the Platform Stop Formula 1 Madrid.

This article was originally published in Noticias para Municipios. Various citizen and social groups have formed the STOP F-1 Madrid Platform with the aim of stopping the installation of the F1 urban circuit in the capital. In a statement, the neighbors have announced that they will carry out legal actions and mobilizations to express their rejection of the Formula Grand Prix project in Madrid. The platform denounces the high levels of acoustic …

The future urban circuit of Formula 1 of Madrid, which aims to host the Grand Prix of Spain since 2026, will run between the pavilions of Ifema and the large plot of Valdebebas where in the future the fairgrounds will be expanded, but the bulls will also cross public roads where there are houses, like the Francisco Umbral street of the neighborhood of Las Cárcavas-San Antonio. The families of this neighborhood and others close to the circuit, li…