Turkish Automobile Sports Federation Istanbul Park announced that they will open the doors of the track to Turkish sports again.
In this regard, the statement made by the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation includes the following: was given: The gates of our country’s only international race track, İstanbul Park, will be opened to Turkish athletes, race teams and spectators again with the second and third legs of the AVIS Turkish Track Championship to be held next weekend. After a long break, in the races to be held on September 7-8, classic cars will also take to the track in addition to Formula 3 and karting shows. In addition, rally tests will be held on the dirt stage at the İstanbul Park track on Saturday and Sunday. Eren Üçlertoprağı, President of the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED), said the following before this new period that will begin at İstanbul Park: “As a federation, our only wish for İstanbul Park was for our athletes to be able to use the only international race track in our country in order to ensure their development and to better represent Turkey abroad.
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“We are excited to start a new era with the races to be held on September 7-8 and, as we promised, open to the public,” he explained. The first national race weekend to be held in Istanbul Park in nine years will feature qualifying rounds on both days between 14:00-18:00.”
Eren Üçlertoprağı, the president of the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED), said that after the track was taken from Intercity, “Istanbul Park was liberated from occupation” Intercity vacated the runway, the company’s signs were completely removed. There have been many developments for the runway recently. For example, in the past months Published in Hürriyet Following the completion of the tender process for the Istanbul Park land in Tuzla, where the Formula 1 track is located, all eyes turned to the developments regarding the re-organization of F1 races in Turkey, as stipulated in the tender.
The Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED) and the company that won the tender agree that Intercity, whose lease agreement expires in 2023, not vacating the track makes it difficult for Turkey to host F1. Intercity, on the other hand, did not make a clear statement about the evacuation process, but reminded the tender specifications that ‘the new tenant must sign the F1 management within 30 days for the race to be held in Istanbul’. On this issue, TOSFED President Üçlertoprağı said, “It is not possible to sign a contract with F1 without the track being evacuated” he had said.