A plan to host a grand prix in the centre of Copenhagen in 2020 has edged closer to reality as talks continued in Singapore between Danish business leaders and Formula 1 bosses.
As reported earlier this summer, a consortium of Danish businessmen led by Lars Seier Christensen presented a plan to host a race in the centre of Copenhagen with money from a public-private partnership.
The plan has since advanced with meetings recently held in Singapore. Christensen, a former owner of Saxo Bank who sponsored the Lotus F1 team and Helge Sander a former Danish Minister, met with F1 bosses over the weekend to discuss the plan further.
“We have had some very positive meetings with Formula 1 Management and my feeling is that they would love to have a grand prix in Copenhagen,” Sander said.
More details of the plan have also emerged. We already knew the circuit would be designed by favoured architect Hermann Tilke, but the latest update from motorsport.com has confirmed former F1 driver Jan Magnussen helped with the design.
He described the layout as ‘Baku- like’, which features long straights and a tight city centre section, suggesting it would be ‘one of the most spectacular in F1’.
Although backed by the Danish government, it has received opposition from the Danish green lobby and has yet to achieve the funding needed to host the race.
