Final Up to date on 11 Feb 2022 11:53 am (UK Time)
Bahrain will proceed to host a Components 1 Grand Prix till 2036 after an extension of the contract was once agreed with the Bahrain Global Circuit.
The deal is the longest settlement out of any monitor at the calendar, with it additionally protecting the 2022 Respectable Pre-Season Check and the hole Grand Prix of the season.
Bahrain become the primary Center Japanese state to race in its nation again in 2004, and it has later been adopted through races in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.
Components 1 CEO and President Stefano Domenicali, mentioned: “I’m overjoyed we can be racing on the Bahrain Global Circuit till 2036 the place extra fantastic racing and pleasure shall be on display to delight our lovers. Since 2004 we’ve had some implausible races in Sakhir and we can not wait to be again there for the beginning of the 2022 championship as we start a brand new technology for the game.
“Bahrain was once the primary nation within the Center East to welcome Components 1 and it has an overly particular position in our recreation, and I in my opinion need to thank HRH Prince Salman and his group for his or her willpower and difficult paintings right through our partnership and stay up for the various years of racing forward people,” the 56-year-old added.
The 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix was once well-known for having the very best temperatures recorded at a grand prix, with an air temperature of 42.5 levels Celsius on race afternoon, seeing Fernando Alonso win through a relaxed 13 seconds in tricky prerequisites.
To start with held in sunlight, it was once shifted to a twilight timing in 2014 in an try to beef up its attraction.
The promoter has introduced measures that can give a boost to the development’s environmental affect, with all of the power utilized by the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix set to come back from sustainable assets, aligning with Components 1’s project to be carbon impartial through 2030.
Sheikh Salman bin Isa Al Khalifa, Leader Govt of Bahrain Global Circuit, mentioned: “After 18 years of F1 racing, we’re proud to have performed a component in F1’s wealthy historical past and we now taking a look ahead to proceeding to construct on that heritage smartly into the long run. The expansion and pastime in Motorsport in Bahrain and the Center East has vital momentum, with a brand new technology of lovers embracing our nice recreation and we stay up for proceeding that development.”
