Bulgaria Interested to Host Grand Prix
Sports | October 30, 2004, Saturday
Sliven Mayor Yordan Letchkov has invited investors to build up a Grand Prix track, equipped with hotels and casino, near the town. Photo by online.bg
Bulgaria can soon have a F1 track in the town of Sliven, to the south outskirts of the Balkans Chain.
The town's Mayor Yordan Letchkov, the legendary Bulgarian footballer, has launched negotiations with representatives of the company GLC acting as intermediaries and making up the construction draft project of the prospective track and facilities.
According to Mayor Letchkov, the consortium is hoping to have the track, which will feature a hotel and a casino, ready by early 2006. The ambitious project to offer a track for world Grand Prix events is estimated at about EUR 200-250 M.
German architect Herman Tilke, who had designed tracks in Malaysia, Shanghai, Bahrain and Turkey, has drafted the project in Sliven envisaging also tracks for carting, autocross, hotels, training and medical facilities and a casino.
For the needs of the F1 track, the local airport will go under renovation works and a linking road of 20 km will be laid down to make connection to the Trakiya highway.
The interest to host a Grand Prix in Bulgaria emerged amid increasing threats over the tracks at Silverstone, Imola, Magny-Cours and the Nurburgring, world news sources commented.
The town's Mayor Yordan Letchkov, the legendary Bulgarian footballer, has launched negotiations with representatives of the company GLC acting as intermediaries and making up the construction draft project of the prospective track and facilities.
According to Mayor Letchkov, the consortium is hoping to have the track, which will feature a hotel and a casino, ready by early 2006. The ambitious project to offer a track for world Grand Prix events is estimated at about EUR 200-250 M.
German architect Herman Tilke, who had designed tracks in Malaysia, Shanghai, Bahrain and Turkey, has drafted the project in Sliven envisaging also tracks for carting, autocross, hotels, training and medical facilities and a casino.
For the needs of the F1 track, the local airport will go under renovation works and a linking road of 20 km will be laid down to make connection to the Trakiya highway.
The interest to host a Grand Prix in Bulgaria emerged amid increasing threats over the tracks at Silverstone, Imola, Magny-Cours and the Nurburgring, world news sources commented.
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