Until recently it was a fiction, one of those Fast & Furious-style sagas, the kind that never end and that offer a worse and even more difficult product every time. Since yesterday, the Tenerife Motor Circuit it’s looking more like a project, although there are still many parts to shoot.
The plenary session of the Cabildo approved an item of 5.1 million euros to give continuity to the little that has been done on the Atogo land, where the Tenerife motor house is planned, something that started on October 30, 1990 with an expedition to Barcelona led by Adán Martín, then president of the Tenerife Councilwith Paulino Rivero among his squires, to sign the drawing up of the circuit project with the TN company from Barcelona, the same company that had done the Albacete or Montmeló circuit.
Almost 32 years later, with the project presented in 2012 and the first stone of the works laid in 2016, the Tenerife Motor Circuit has been able to be unblocked with the approval of this economic item, which will be used to resume some works, those of the first of the three phases of the project, which include the construction of the track, the completion of the north access to the circuit, the construction of the paddock and the channeling of some ravines, which was not contemplated in the initial project.
“It would have been unfortunate if this project was blocked due to a matter of political tactics,” Pedro Martín, president of the Island Council, said in the morning, after seeing how on the 4th the proposal was rejected by the CC and PP, whose position, yesterday, it was radically different. In a few months the works will begin and a monitoring commission will also be created with representatives of the political parties and the motor world, and a multi-year economic plan that guarantees the completion of a project whose first phase could be settled in 2023.
“With this agreement, a crucial step is taken for the start-up of the works of a first-class sports infrastructure”, highlighted Enrique Arriaga, vice president of the Insular Corporation and visible head of this chapter of the project.
