F1: Red Bull Open to hosting F1 at A1 Race

The energy drinks company has renovate the venue, now known as the Red Bull Ring, and its motorsport consultant Helmut Marko has exposed that he has been in touch with the FIA to make it aware of the occasion available. 

The FIA declared earlier this week that a European Formula 1 race would be held on July 21 next year at an undetermined venue - with France and Turkey the favorites to protect the spot. However, Marko consider the Red Bull Ring is more than competent of protected a return of F1 to Austria for the first time since 2003. 

"We made the FIA aware of the detail that there is the Red Bull Ring and it holds a full rating F1 license," Marko said. 

Although the current 40,000 capability for the Red Bull Racing would make it hard for the event to make a profit, Marko advice that funding could also be approaching from the Austrian national government and the region of Styria. 

"It worked in the 1970s and 1980s too," he said. "And we have a full quantity of hotels in Graz." Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz is at present on vacation and occupied for observation about the possibility of there being an Austrian GP in 2014. 

Austria has held 26 world contest races. An event in 1964 took place on a military airstrip at Zeltweg before the Osterreichring was used from 1970 to 1987. The modify A1 Ring held grands prix among 1997 and 2003.

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