After Rattanakosin ban, search for F1 site widens

Tourism Minister Somsak Phurisisak said that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration issued a law on May 16 which prohibits car racing in historic Rattanakosin, where organisers had wanted to locate the F1 circuit.

He added that efforts to launch a Thailand Formula One Grand Prix would not cease as the committee would look for a new site, focusing their search in the Chaengwattana Government Office Complex and Muang Thong Thani areas of the capital. “In fact many cities have shown an interest in hosting the race. We have no plans to build a stadium, as the circuit is expected to run through cultural sites,” Somsak said. 

 

Vettel’s win deceptive: Ferrari 

Ferrari team chief Stefano Domenicali believes Sebastian Vettel was flattered by the manner of his win in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix.

But Domenicali said he believed it would have been a completely different picture if two-time world champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso had started from the front row instead of sixth place on the grid.

“I believe if Fernando had been on the first row like Sebastian then it would have been a different story,” he said. “The main difference was that everyone, I believe, thought that the super-soft was the tyre for the race, but because the temperature was higher, then it was the other way around.”