Ayuso embraces Formula 1 at Jarama the circuit with which he can take the race from Catalonia - Ripene Skip to content Ayuso embraces Formula 1 at Jarama the circuit with which he can take the race from Catalonia September 22, 2022 by Ripene 41 years have passed since the last race was held in formula 1 in Madrid. Few will remember it, especially the vast majority of fans of this sport who arrived at the hands of Fernando Alonso at the beginning of this century, but during the 60s and 70s it was Madrid, with the Jarama circuitthe venue for a Spanish Grand Prix that has been in Barcelona for 32 uninterrupted years (Montmeló) and that there will be at least 36 because until 2026 this track has a contract with Formula 1. It is that date, 2026, on which the Community of Madrid has put its plans so that the queen category of the motor returns to Madrid. And it is no longer a simple rumor or an old aspiration, It is a project that is underway, albeit very early. “Very early,” to be exact, according to Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who has confirmed that he wants F1 in Madrid because it is “an economic engine” since this sport “has a lot of fans” and “attracts tourism”. To this end, talks will be held with public and private institutions and an effort will be made so that one of the main annual sporting events has a place in Madrid. The Community has been letting itself be loved for some time. Already in June the regional government sent a letter to Stefano Domenicali, President and CEO of Formula 1, in which he explained that there is great interest and detailed something basic to host a Grand Prix: «An efficient transport system, good weather, cultural, gastronomic and natural environment attractions» as well as well as other fundamental parameters to host a Formula 1 race, such as “a good hotel infrastructure and a very diverse commercial offer with unique time freedom”. What was a letter are now “conversations”Diaz Ayuso has revealed. The main question is already resolved: if there is a race in Madrid it will be in the historic Jarama circuit, venue for nine F1 World Championship races – more than four decades ago – and the only circuit that meets the parameters to host a race… with many conditions. And it is that as it is now it would be impossible for it to host a race. It needs many changes, from more security to the most basic, the reform of a layout that remains the same as when it was created in 1967. It is necessary to completely modify the facilities, the accesses, add many more stands, make loopholes, even increase the layout and provide it with fundamental safety in Formula 1although this is fixed, to summarize it simply, with a large financial outlay, about 50 million euros, less than if it would be done in a new circuit (there was the idea of ​​making an urban one in the Ifema area). The Jarama circuit in Madrid, with an aerial viewRACE The Jarama circuit is owned by the RACE (Royal Automobile Club of Spain), which gives the ok the arrival of Formula 1. F1 itself also likes the idea, with Domenicali at the helm, which sees a new business area in Madrid. The current Formula 1 is very interested in opening new horizons, placing novelties on the calendar and attracting ideas that update the sport. All that money, in short, or more money than what they earn now. Contacts have already started there is tune and the date of 2027 is on the table. And it is that Spain is not expected to host two Grand Prix, something that now only has – and the calendar for 2023 has just been known – the United States and Italy. The mirror of the Netherlands Madrid looks at the Netherlandswhere a tremendous fondness for Formula 1 has erupted by having the best of all the drivers, the last and next world champion, Max Verstappen. The case is very similar. The Zandvoort circuit returned to F1 in 2021 after 36 years without appearing there and that route is similar to that of Jarama in the sense that it was ‘abandoned’ and that it returned after the approval of those who rule in this sport to open a new window. There is also the circumstance that the designer of the two circuits, Jarama and Zandvoort, is the sameJohn Hugenholtz. Jarama has a problem, yes, that it should solve. When it was created, in 1967, it was done in a bush areawith nothing next to it. Now it has adjoining urbanizationsbelonging to the municipality of San Sebastián de los Reyes, and it has even been prohibited that in some sections of the circuit the maximum decibels be exceeded for that reason. The battle with Catalonia Here comes the political issue. If Madrid has a Formula 1 race it will be to the detriment of Barcelona. Although Ayuso does not want it to be so. And it would be very rare, practically impossible, for it to be accepted that Spain had two races, only viable in the heyday of Fernando Alonso and when Valencia hosted the European GP for three years, a name that no longer exists in Formula 1. This sport is now open to Asian and North American business and in Europe it has its circuits and fixed dates. Madrid plays with an advantage: despite the fact that it was renewed until 2026, F1 does not like Montmeló, a circuit far from the economic and sporting performance that so many others give in a season. What could well be a political fight, in a Madrid-Catalonia battle to have the Formula 1 Spanish GP, Díaz Ayuso is in charge of stopping it: “We don’t want to compete with anyone in this regard”said the president, who specified that the idea of ​​bringing this sport to the Community of Madrid it is not done “to the detriment of Catalonia”. But undoubtedly it will end, if it goes forward, in an undoubted fight between one and the other, because there will only be one Spanish GP and because F1 is not interested in bicephaly in our country. 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