The governing council of the Council of Tenerife has approved this Tuesday the file for the contracting of the plays of the Tenerife Engine Circuitin Granadilla de Abona, which will have a bidding budget of €56 million and an execution period of 40 months.
Tenerife ignores a legal report that advises a new environmental assessment for the Motor Circuit
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The tender includes the execution of three projects: the channeling of the three ravines with the defense plan against floods, the leveling and installations for removable stands and, finally, the speed track.
The Motor Circuit will have an area of about 650,000 square meters. Once the works are finished, it will have a layout of 4,050 meters, with a main straight of about 800 meters long and a series of secondary straights designed to facilitate overtaking, especially in the case of cars, with various ramps for motorcycles.
The layout is developed with a total of 16 curves in plan, of which there will be 11 to the left and 5 to the right. All of them will have different base radii starting from a minimum of 21 meters to a maximum of 100 meters. Transversely, the curves will have a single slope that varies between 1% and 5% depending on the radius and speed of travel.
All this will be complemented with a 72,000 square meter ‘paddock’ prepared to accommodate all the needs required by any national or international competition. There will be 15 boxes for cars and 45 for motorcycles. The infrastructure will also have a grandstand with capacity for more than 5,000 people, a restaurant and a shopping area.
In addition, it will be characterized by being “one of the few circuits in the world to circulate in an anti-clockwise direction”, emphasizes the Cabildo de Tenerife in the statement.
The Environmental Impact Statement, one of the cons of the Motor Circuit
The tender has gone ahead with an Environmental Impact Statement that expired after being drawn up 13 years ago, in September 2011, the only one approved to date and from which a new one has not been issued.
The Tenerife Council has been valid since last February to tender the works of the circuit, but ignored a legal report from the Support Unit of the Tenerife Environmental Assessment Commission (CEAT) which advised making a new environmental evaluation because “it cannot be valid ad eternum”.
The president of the Tenerife Council calls this tender “a giant step”
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, pointed out in a statement that this tender, which represents “a great giant step”, will allow companies to present themselves to carry out the works, with which “this year we will be able to see machinery working”.
The First Vice President and Island Councilor for Roads, Enrique Arriaga, assures that “there are many difficulties that have arisen along the way, but we are very happy because in a few months it will be possible to start the works on this infrastructure so demanded by the thousands of fans to the motor that is on the island”.
Arriaga details that it will allow to celebrate “all kinds of competitions with quality and, above all, safely.” He points out that the layout has the approvals of the International Automobile Federation and the International Motorcycle Federation to host “top level races”.
In any case, this space will not be exclusively for “big events”, since the objective of the insular government, Arriaga assures, is that “the motor world continues to grow in Tenerife”, and for this reason it will have facilities dedicated to training around to motor racing and there will also be plots where companies related to this sector can set up to test components, competition materials, assembly of parts and repair.
