The new Madrid Formula 1 circuit He has already had his first accident, and he has not even raced a single-seater on its asphalt yet. A van with four occupants he sneaked into the construction siteand at high speed ended up going off the track. Although they had a good scare, it seems that there have been no serious injuries.
What happened. A person who was walking through the Valdebebas area, next to the IFEMA exhibition center where the MadRing is being built, heard a loud noise coming from inside the circuit. When he looked out he saw a van driving along the already paved part of the route at a very fast speed, especially for a construction site. He took out his cell phone, recorded, and He sent the video to the ‘MadriZonaNorte’ account in X.
In the images you can see how the vehicle ends up overshooting a curve and crashing, triggering the airbag. The four occupants, according to El Motor, were workers working on the construction of the circuit, and they all left on their own.
rolling. The MadRing is still far from finished. The asphalting process should be completed by May 31and that includes three layers: base, intermediate and tread. Right now there is only a first layer on a good part of the route. Filming at high speed inside such an enclosure, with the work underway, has been irresponsible that, in this case, ended without serious consequences due to pure luck.
A project against the clock. To understand the magnitude of the nonsense, it is worth taking into account the pace at which the work progresses. The Director of Operations of IFEMA Madrid, Carlos Jiménez, counted to Motorsport media that the works are even going a week and a half or two weeks ahead of what was planned for the track.
The construction companies ACCIONA and Eiffage Construction are working non-stop to meet a deadline that does not allow for delays, since after the delivery of the circuit, the FIA homologations will come, with two official visits planned during the works, and all of this must be ready before September arrives.
Taking into account that the bun oven is not there, any carelessness within the premises is an unnecessary risk that could further complicate a work that has already caused quite a few headaches.
What’s to come. When completed, the MadRing will have 22 curves and 5.4 km in length, the estimated lap time is 1 minute and 32 seconds, and on the 589-meter finish line, drivers will be able to reach up to 340 km/h. The jewel in the crown is La Monumentala 550 meter long curve with an extreme bank of 24%, the highest on the calendar, in which the drivers will have to face an inclination of up to 10 meters high for six seconds. A particularity that does not exist in any other circuit in the world in the competition.
The when. The Madrid Grand Prix is scheduled for the weekend of September 11-13 this year. More than 80,000 tickets have already been soldwhich is equivalent to 72% of the total capacity. A few weeks ago, A Red Bull car traveled the tracks of the Madrid Metro as part of an advertising campaign for the event. Now the route has made headlines again, although for very different reasons.
a test. Before the debut in F1, IFEMA is working on organizing an internal race, probably without an audience and in a lower category, to verify the state of the circuit. The real cars will arrive in September, so the fewer vans there are testing the Stranjis layout, the better.
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