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Countries that don't have a Grand Prix, but should (30 posts)

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Fixy said 2 years, 7 months ago:

Faroe Islands.

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jihelle said 2 years, 7 months ago:

France (of course). Always thought having a Grand Prix de France at Le Mans would be great but sadly no one else over there seems to think so. The track would only require minor adjustements and it would be soooo fast. Otherwise Finland and Austria.

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Sutil-M said 2 years, 7 months ago:

France and mabye Finland.

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JPedroCQF1 said 2 years, 7 months ago:

As a portuguese, I say Portugal. Since Formula 1 left Estoril in 1996 because of the improvments that were promised by the Portuguese Government but that never came reality, Portugal is fighting for it. Although the stupid government doesn’t sees the benefits of having a Grand Prix, I remember that some teams saw the Portimao circuit as good venue for Grand Prix racing back in the beggining of last year.

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SteveMovieVoice said 2 years, 7 months ago:

F1 did race at Le Mans, but on the Bugatti layout. I got GT PSP and drove the Ferrari F1 car on the Sarthe, scary.

Wales deserves a GP, I’m sure Terry Matthews could use his millions to build a new circuit around Newport. Maybe replacing a Golf Course, or building it on the huge steelworks site. And according to the media, rain all year round (ITS NOT TRUE, THAT RAIN WAS BIBLICAL EVEN FOR WALES), what could be better?

On a more serious note, France is the obvious one, followed closely by Finland. They love there rallies and there F1. Watching the WRC Finland rally was amazing, the fans are passionate about driving.

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Icthyes said 2 years, 7 months ago:

Oops, I forgot France.

The way Greece is going I doubt there’ll be a GP and I have no idea where they’d put it. But it would be nice.

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damonsmedley said 2 years, 7 months ago:

Somewhere totally impractical.

I can play that game: Greenland. Zanzibar. Bhutan. The Congo. Chechnya. The West Bank. Bermuda. The Moon. Tibet. Kamchatka. Chernobyl. New Zealand.

A Grand Prix in Kamchatka would be epic! Instead of the drivers having cold air blown on them, they’d have heaters! And I’d love to hear over the team radio, “snow in 5 minutes!” The 2012 Grand Prix of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky or “2012 ????-?????????????-??????????” would be very interesting. :P

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TomD11 said 2 years, 7 months ago:

I was thinking of New Zealand too, I mean I know you’ve got Australia right next door but they do have quite the racing heritage. Perhaps they could have a night race or twilight or something.

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Girts said 2 years, 7 months ago:

I think that there should be a Formula 1 race in every continent. Well, maybe not in Antarctica. But Africa should have a GP, maybe in South Africa or in Morocco. I guess the latter one hosts a WTCC race. Another country, which should be considered, is Poland because it is a big market (38 million inhabitants) and they already have a big star – Robert Kubica.

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Søren Kaae said 2 years, 7 months ago:

Scandinavia needs a Grand Prix, to get more people interested. The logical place to place this is Finland because the inagural interest here would be biggest. For the 2010 WRC Rally Finland it is estimated that about 500.000 finns showed up at the various stages. Then there were all the foreign fans on top. I do not say that the same people will pay 50$ for a ticket to a 2015 Fiskars Suomii Grand Prix. But I genuinely think that you could attract 400.000 paying scandinavian people. Remember that people here normally are some of the richer in Europe, and even though not many here spend the 300$ that an entire Belgian Grand Prix weekend would cost. The thing is that for people here in Denmark it would cost the same to go to Finland, but as long as its in Scandinavia people will think: “Oh thats just around the corner”.

A Suomii Grand Prix would fit in perfectly in June or July where most scandinavians have their summer vacation, and so would be more than happy to spend two weeks around the F1 GP in Finland.

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Felipe Bomeny said 2 years, 7 months ago:

Well, they do have that new Ordos racetrack in Inner Mongolia, China for Superleague. But if there can be a San Marino and Luxembourg GP, can there be a Mongolian GP? I would think yes. Ordos City is more wealthy than Beijing, has a lot of thriving energy businesses, is growing fast, and could reply for the need of Prisoner Monkey’s central Asia grand prix suggestion.

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Prisoner Monkeys said 2 years, 7 months ago:

The problem with Ordos is that it’s very slow and very narrow. I’ve seen a few videos of it, and while there’s a nice long straight and a pair of fast sweepers on the back half of the course, everything else puts the Hungaroring to shame.

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Fer no.65 said 2 years, 7 months ago:

As an Argentinean I say Argentina.

We have always loved motorsports around here. Juan Manuel Fangio was just one of the many brave guys that started racing in Turismo Carretera in 1937, a motorsport series that’s still going and is Guiness Record for the oldest one living.

Argentina finished 1-2 in 1954, with Froilan Gonzalez coming 2nd to Fangio; the same Froilan that took a Ferrari to the win for the first time ever.

Argentina build once of the greatest tracks in F1 when they extended the original Oscar Alfredo Galvez Number 9 circuit and allowed F1 fans to enjoy drivers going nearly flat out through that very long loop after the esses, a proper speed circuit.

WRC, IRC, Dakar, World Sport cars, FIA GT, 4 national series racing every other weekend, one of the best touring series in the world (TC2000)… and a circuit that should allow F1, because it was done using the streets from a town in San Luis that go around a lake near an inactive volcano.

Just saying it sounds epic.

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VettelS said 2 years, 7 months ago:

Russia
France
somewhere in Scandinavia
Czech Republic
USA
Morocco
Poland
Saudi Arabia
South Africa

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sbl on tour said 2 years, 7 months ago:

ireland,the pheonix park or better still nw200 circuit , now that would sort the alonsos from the torro rosso pair

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