The spokesperson for the Government of Catalonia, Patrícia Plaja, announced this Tuesday that the Generalitat has authorized Circuit de Catalunya to sign the promotion contracts for Formula 1 and MotoGP for the period 2022-2026.
In a press conference after the Executive Council, he defended that the renewal of the contract is linked to a rethinking of the Montmeló circuit (Barcelona) to adapt it to the commitment “for sustainability and direct link with the territory.”
“Another Circuit de Catalunya is possible and that is what the Government will do”, has claimed, and has explained that this will be defined in the Strategic Plan of the Circuit de Catalunya to link it to sustainability and technological innovation, so he believes that the renewal of these contracts It will not affect the negotiations of the 2022 Generalitat Budgets.
Plaja has argued that The Generalitat wants to promote a “new paradigm” at the Circuit which will take place in the coming weeks and which will propose different uses of the circuit beyond the Formula 1 and Moto GP Grand Prix. According to her, the renewal of these contracts will allow to start “the transition period to a new Circuit”, Although it has not given details of what it will consist of.
The Formula 1 and Moto GP contracts at the Circuit de Catalunya have been one of the issues that the CUP has always rejected and, in fact, after the announcement of the renewal of these contracts, the CUP spokesperson in Parliament, Eulàlia Reguant, has criticized in a tweet collected by Europa Press: “They were not the Budgets of the macroprojects. They were transformative and green”, has ironic.