“It’s going reasonably well,” said the mayor of the capital
The mayor of Madrid and PP candidate, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has considered this Wednesday that the Ifema negotiations and the Formula 1 for the capital to have a Grand Prix they are going “reasonably well”although he did not want to give a “percentage of possibilities” that the project will come to fruition.
It was at the end of March when the president of the Ifema executive committee, José Vicente de los Mozos, assured that the proposal for the Madrid Grand Prix was already on the table and that the automobile competition teams had “liked it”. “It’s going reasonably well. I think it’s one of the great sporting events out there, that cities are also going to stand out more internationally and globally due to their ability to attract these big events,” Almeida said at the informative breakfast organized by Europa Press that he starred in this Wednesday, and in which the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, has been in charge of presenting the mayor and candidate of the PP to revalidate the position on May 28.
With Moreno in the audience, Almeida has said that this ability to attract large events It is something that Andalusia has understood “perfectly”, with the Latin Grammys to be held in Seville in November and which are “extraordinary news not only for Andalusia but for Spain as a whole”. “(The Latin Grammys) give an idea of the attraction capacity they have in Andalusia at the moment, and Formula 1 follows exactly the same logic. It is a great sporting event. It has been negotiating for months by Ifema, presenting the projects to Formula. I am not going to give a percentage of possibilities (that the event ends up in the capital of Spain), but I do say that I think it is going reasonably well for Madrid to have a Formula 1 Grand Prix”, Almeida concluded.