Ecclestone: India Will Host F1 In 2011
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that India will definitely host a Grand Prix in Delhi in 2011.
Work on a new circuit on the outskirts of Delhi was meant to begin in October 2008 but was postponed however Ecclestone insists he and Indian company Jaiprakash Associates Ltd are ‘fully committed’ to the project.
‘Of course we will deliver… otherwise we wouldn’t have entered into an agreement,’ said Ecclestone.
It is thought that work on India’s track will now begin this summer, with completion expected at the end of 2010.
Ecclestone added that this was because he has issues with the global calendar of sporting events and ‘certain contracts elsewhere to fulfil’.
Ecclestone is keen to bring F1 to a country with a population of over one billion and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies – even in the current global downturn.
