Spanish GP Organisers Say New Madrid Track Will Be Ready Despite Hurdles
- Formula One's new Madrid Grand Prix circuit, Madring, was publicly unveiled with officials confident it will be ready for the September race despite ongoing construction.
- The 5.47 km track features a mix of fast and slow sections, including a 24% banked curve, but permanent pitlane garages and grandstands remain incomplete.
- Madring's Chief Operations Officer Carlos Jimenez stated construction is in its 11th month, with temporary structures to be built soon and night shifts planned due to summer heat to meet deadlines.
- The race, scheduled for September 11-13, is Madrid's first Formula One event since 1981, highlighting sustainability and easy access to the city center as key features, according to General Manager Luis Garcia Abad.
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The presentation yesterday of MADRING was on wheels. It is the urban circuit that will host the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Spain from 11 to 13 September, a weekend that will turn the capital into the world epicenter of high speed. The hotel sector is already preparing for the flood of amateurs, mostly of high purchasing power, developing thematic experiences to attract this visitor profile. One of the most ambitious proposals is that of VP Plaza Es…
After the anthem, the largest Spanish flag ever made of 420 square meters and 54 meters high and an event full of folkloric winks, with that version of the official cousin of the F1, in flamenco mode that he likes so much. Carlos Sainz is already stuck in his Williams and driving along the new track, which he tried with a street car, which in dynamic terms is another dimension compared to a 1,000 hp booster.
The Madrid president and the mayor of the capital have participated in Ifema in the official presentation of Madring, the circuit that will host the Formula 1 Grand Prix.
Spanish GP organisers say new Madrid track will be ready despite hurdles
F1 driver Carlos Sainz spoke of his hometown excitement at the official presentation of the Madring circuit in Madrid, Spain. (EPA Images pic) MADRID: Formula One’s new Spanish Grand Prix circuit held a showy public unveiling on Tuesday with organisers confident all would be ready for the September race in Madrid despite construction being far from finished. The largest Spanish flag in the country was raised at the first corner before government…
The asphalt of the Formula 1 circuit heats up engines in Madrid. This Tuesday the official presentation of the 5.47 kilometers, the 22 curves and for the first time has been able to travel the entire route in a bus of the EMT. It is an investment of 450 million, that from the beginning of the project the opposition questioned the return that will generate.Continue reading...
The Madring, the semi-urban circuit that will host, on the second weekend of September, the Formula One Grand Prix of Spain -which 45 years later, returns to the capital-, raised its flag this Tuesday on the track built in the surroundings of IFEMA (Ferial Institution of Madrid), during the act of presentation of it, which had the presence of its ambassador, the Spanish pilot Carlos Sainz. Read more]]>
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