Thailand aim for Formula One race
The 2014 season is due to see two new races, at Sochi in Russia and at a New Jersey street circuit.
Reuters
December 23, 2012
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BANGKOK:
Thailand expects to host a floodlit Formula One Grand Prix in Bangkok in 2015 after plans were pushed back a year, said the governor of the national sports authority yesterday. “A Formula One race is likely to take place here in early 2015 instead of in 2014 in our initial plan,” Kanokphand Chulakasem told the Bangkok Post newspaper. The 2014 season is due to see two new races, at Sochi in Russia and at a New Jersey street circuit, on a calendar which already has a record 20 rounds, but Thailand would be a novelty for the year after. Red Bull’s Michael De Santiesteban, representative of the energy drink’s Thai co-owner Chalerm Yoovidhya, says talks with Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone were going well. “It is likely to be held in Bangkok. With Thailand on the calendar, a current race is likely to be removed,” said Santiesteban.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2012.
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