{"id":173562,"date":"2025-06-10T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173562\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:05:09","slug":"new-madrid-gp-faces-legal-challenge-as-circuit-construction-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173562\/","title":{"rendered":"New Madrid GP faces legal challenge as circuit construction begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The all-new Madrid Grand Prix is facing a legal challenge on two fronts as efforts ramp up ahead of its inaugural event next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The High Court of Justice of Madrid has accepted an appeal from Mas Madrid against plans to build the Madring circuit around the IFEMA exhibition centre in the Spanish Capital.<\/p>\n

Court accepts legal challenge against Madrid GP<\/p>\n

Announced in January 2024, organisers in Madrid have secured a 10-year deal with Formula 1 to host an event from next year.<\/p>\n

That will see the Madring join the calendar as Round 16 of the F1 2026 schedule, the final European leg of the 24-event calendar announced by the sport\u2019s commercial rights holder.<\/p>\n

Its position on the calendar is subject to circuit homologation, a standard qualifier for any new event, but one that appears to have additional caveats in this instance.<\/p>\n

In April, Madrid\u2019s mayor, Jos\u00e9 Luis Mart\u00ednez-Almeida, announced that an urban planning licence needed to allow work to commence on the circuit would be issued \u201ctomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a position to issue the license tomorrow and, therefore, to continue moving forward so that F1 comes to Madrid,\u201d Martinez-Almeida announced.<\/p>\n

That was quickly followed by comments from Rita Maestre, the leader of political group Mas Madrid, who has now followed that up with a statement off the back of the appeal filed with the High Court of Justice of Madrid last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a plan without an adequate environmental impact assessment or public health evaluation, despite the noise and pollution that the surrounding areas will suffer with the circuit passing less than 40 metres from homes,\u201d Maestre said.<\/p>\n

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A long-term opponent of the Madrid Grand Prix, Mas Madrid highlighted a number of concerns with the Special Plan that allows the circuit\u2019s construction.<\/p>\n

Mas Madrid has argued that there is an \u201cabsence\u201d of key environmental information, including a lack of an environmental impact assessment and public health studies.<\/p>\n

Further, it claims the process \u201cwas carried out without individual notification to the surrounding residents, contravening urban planning regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also alleged more than 700 trees could be destroyed as a result of the circuit\u2019s construction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appealed this urban plan, just as we are going to appeal the license judicially and we are not going to stop asking for explanations for each public euro of the 190 million euros that have already been committed to everyone\u2019s taxes, although they said that everything was going to be free,\u201d Maestre stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis hit is going to be difficult for the PP because from M\u00e1s Madrid we are going to defend, above all, the general interest of the people of Madrid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, efforts to build hype surrounding the all-new event continue, with Carlos Sainz performing a demonstration run at the site with Williams last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Read next:\u00a0F1 2026 to begin in Australia, beloved circuit axed as 24-race calendar announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The all-new Madrid Grand Prix is facing a legal challenge on two fronts as efforts ramp up ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,225,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-173562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114660397769510757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}