Welcome to a historic Spanish Grand Prix

Ang Formula 1 Pirelli Spanish Grand Prix It was presented this Wednesday in the unparalleled setting of Parc d’Atraccions Tibidabo in Barcelona, ​​the perfect place where you can see the whole of Ciudad Condal and almost the whole area of ​​Vallès. An action led by the Minister of Business and Labor and President of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Roger TorrentAccompanied by Joseph Mateu, president of RACC; Pere Rodríguez, mayor of Montmeló, Jaume Collboni, first deputy mayor of Barcelona and the general director of the Circuit, Josep Lluis Santamaria.

Some of them have been responsible for hoarding the difficult moments where the Circuitcat will soon be losing to Formula One GP, but the determination and commitment to the great four-wheel event and, at the same time, the desire to transform the facility into continuing to be the great motor showcase for another 30 years has been key to the continuation of the Spanish F1 GP in Montmeló even until 2026.

And so much desire for the F-1 after two years of the Spanish GP without an audience due to the pandemic that soon ran out of tickets for the event on May 20-22 and had to set up new extra stands and even the sale, at a reduced price, tickets with reduced visibility. The demand was mainly from the local public as compared to what happened before the pandemic when especially the French and Dutch public. And it was the desire to be included in what could be the first success of his career for Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, one of the championship cheerleaders.

“After two very sad years in which we have not been able to tell the atmosphere of the public, we have them by our side again and we have already hung the ‘no tickets’ sign. That is good news,” said the director general of Circuit Josep Lluis Santamaría.

And to meet that need, the circuit had to expand two grandstands and install a new one. “And we sold a package of chairs with slightly reduced vision at a special price,” he explains.

Despite the fact that this year standard activities have been reduced from Friday to Sunday, including Media Day, Circuitcat maintains a pitlane visit on Thursday 19 pm for everyone with a ticket, even without contact with riders for health reasons. F1 to keep its drivers covid.

“Not surprisingly, we are happy with the expected audience, it is very sad to start the race and just listen to the mechanics and not the public, drivers need the public and the public needs drivers and officials also need to feel public heat.

Santamaría said it will not be the same during Fernando Alonso’s blue tide because “the configuration of the stands is different, there are grandstands set up in 2006 and 2007 that are gone, the rise of turn. 7 and 9 they are ephemeral and no more, the pelousse has won, it’s different but it’s full “, he declared. In the ‘blue’ years, every Sunday they reached 130-140,000 spectators and the bar’s recovery of 100,000 again would be a milestone.

“We want to be key personnel not only in the decisions we make in many other areas, but also take advantage of the circuit as a springboard to make this change that the strategic plan we will soon present, steps we will take and help us.to project the circuit for at least the next 30 years.We’ve done 30, we’ve covered a part of history, but we want it to have a longer journey into the 21st century, with values ​​and principles that are different from those of the 20th century ”, explained Minister Roger Torrent.

Former F1 driver and now TV commentator Pedro Martinez de la Rosa manages to make the sporting story and enthusiastically recounted that “this is going to be a special, brutal, even historic GP. We have two Spanish drivers in two great structures, but most of all we have one who can win our Grand Prix and since it has never happened.For the first time in many years we have Carlos Sainz who can also win his first victory in F1.Improved product, home drivers who can win, fight for the podium, si Carlos finishes on the podium every race, Looks great, I’m excited “.