President Cristina Fernandez announced that Argentina will have a Formula 1 Grand Prix, which will run on a street circuit in the city of Mar del Plata, from the next three years.
Formula 1 in Argentina
“We are closing to bring Formula 1 in 2013, 2014 and 2015 to Mar del Plata,” said the President, in the event which honored a group of Argentine pilots who ran last year’s Dakar Rally and which was accompanied by Minister of Tourism, Enrique Meyer, among other officials.
The event developed in the Casa Rosada, Cristina said that the date for the race deck “is the end of November” and emphasized “that Argentina will again have to Formula 1 is something that Argentines deserve. Motor racing is a passion that lives very strong in many provinces. ”
Formula 1, which was last raced in Argentina at the Autodromo Oscar Alfredo Galvez between 1995 and 1998, will return to the country on a street circuit in Mar del Plata area of ??Playa Grande, which was studied by three architects sent by the director of the F1, Bernie Ecclestone.
Meyer said about “The circuit has already been studied some years ago by the organizers and will be used for Tourism Road Race.”
The first Formula 1 Grand Prix in Argentina ran in 1953, during the presidency of Juan Domingo Peron in a street circuit in the northern city of Buenos Aires and for the first time outside Europe.
The race was won by Italian Alberto Ascari, Ferrari, and Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio, to Maserati, left.
“The performances of these features, such as Formula 1, Moto GP Dakar or give us a spread around the world that is spectacular,” said the official, the main promoter of the three international events are played in the country.
The next year Argentina will host three international competitions of motorsports as the Dakar Rally, which will call for the fifth time in the country since leaving Africa MotoGP Championship, which will run in the province of Santiago del Estero, and Formula 1, to be held in Mar del Plata.
During the ceremony at the Casa Rosada, the President highlighted the work that met the pilots who participated in last year’s Dakar and congratulated them for “doing so well be the country.”
“This is a tribute we owed to those Argentines who have represented us so well and that more and more people are added to Dakar,` do `pole position, to put in a car terms,” ??said Cristina, his tone accomplice.
The event was attended Alejandro Patronelli second consecutive winner of the rally in the quad category, his brother Mark, runner, Lucio Alvarez, who with a sixth place was the best Argentine ranked in the car category, Thomas Maffei, and Luke Bonetto, between other.
Cristina walked the esplanade of the Casa Rosada, where vehicles had been installed some of the runners, as the quad of Patronelli Alvarez’s truck and motorcycle Pizzolito Javier, who had an accident in Chile and attended the ceremony with a crutch and in the process of recovery.
Finally, the tourism minister said that next week in Paris Dakar Rally organizers announced the route for next year and that it “is evaluating the day of rest is made in Tucuman.
