The Cabildo awarded the first phase of the motor circuit Tenerife to the Temporary Union of Companies (UTE) Sacyr Construcción SA-Contratas y Servicios Bahillos SL, for 44,165,489 euros. The works will consist of adapting the scope of action to the Avenues Defense Plan with the channeling of three ravines, the removable stands and the speed track, as well as the proposed improvements that consist of executing parking lots for the public and executing the autocross circuit. .
The works have a term of 40 months for its realization, with an additional guarantee of four years once the Cabildo proceeds to its reception, as stated in the resolution of the Highway and Landscape service of the insular Corporation, in which the proposal of the Contracting Table is accepted, as published today in the Public Sector Contracting Platform.
Approved by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) -has the support of Formula 1 driver Carlos Sáinz- and the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) the Tenerife Motor Circuit will be prepared for racing and training Formula 1 and MotoGPthe highest categories in both modalities.
Some features
LThe runway will be 4,050 meters long, with a width of 12 to 15 meters and its route will be done in an anti-clockwise direction, one of the few circuits in the world that has this characteristic. Your design includes 11 curves to the left and five to the rightwith a radius of 21 meters to 100 meters, with the longest straight of 800 meters and a slope of 5%, which becomes 1% in another minor line.
top speed It will be 320 kilometers per hour, in the case of cars, and 315 kilometers per hour in the case of motorcycles. The minimum speed is established between 95 and 80 kilometers per hour in cars and motorcycles, respectively. It is estimated that the lap time for the cars will be 1’15” and 1’35” for the motorcycles. The paddock (grading and installations for removable stands) will cover 72,000 square metres. It will have 15 boxes for cars and 45 boxes for motorcycles.
The tender for the first phase of the Tenerife Motor Circuit had a budget of 48,563,471. On July 19, 2022, the project was presented in the Symphony Hall of the Tenerife Auditorium in front of 900 people, most of them involved in the automobile and motorcycling activity on the Island. An act that was moderated by the journalist Antonio Lobato and that featured the pilot Carlos Sainz Juniorthe motorcyclist Carlos Checa and the Italian-Tinerifician Christine Giampaoli Zonca (GZ).
“We are in the process and this time is the most serious in which the Circuit is faced. We have the item in the budget and it is only a matter of time,” said the then island councilor for Highways, Enrique Arriaga. “This is not an occurrence, but to fulfill a commitment and an electoral promise,” the president of the Cabildo during the previous term, Pedro Martín, declared in the act.
A long story
The history of the Tenerife Motor Circuit began on October 30, 1990, when the Cabildo and the company TN, from Barcelona, signed an agreement to draw up the project, which it developed from 1997 to 2000, but it will not be the one that will be built. On March 25, 1995, the Tenerife Island Corporation opened the file for the Motor Sports Center (first name of the complex), definitively approved by the Plenary on March 12, 2008. It would not be until May 18, 2015 when the The Cabildo awarded the work to the company Kiti Trans SLU, which laid the first stone on October 28, 2016. Almost eleven months later, in June 2017, the works were paralyzed and the Cabildo terminated the contract with the winning company. In October 2020, the works of the North access began while the project was being finalized. The Tenerife Motor Circuit will be built in the Los Duques de Atogo area, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and a few kilometers from Tenerife South Airport. Its award budget reaches 47,247,443 euros with the application of 7% of the IGIC.
