In the midst of your daily hustle and bustle, President-elect Gustavo Petro has been contemplating various sports issues.
In the first place, for the configuration of his cabinet, three big names appear in the rattle for candidates for the Ministry of Sport:
– Carlos Gonzalez Puche: Executive director of the Colombian Association of Professional Soccer Players (Acolfutpro).
–Maria Isabel Urrutia: the first Colombian athlete to win an Olympic gold.
– Javier Suarez Alonso: current deputy director of the District Sports Recreation Institute of Bogotá, who was also the head of this same entity at the time when Petro was mayor of Bogotá.
Waiting for an announcement on this matter, The biggest echo of Petro’s position regarding sport has to do with an idea that surprised us at the beginning of the year and still seems to be taking flight: Formula 1 in Barranquilla. Above all because, from the outset, his opinion is diametrically opposed to that of the outgoing president, Iván Duque.
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Will there be Formula 1 in Barranquilla?
The idea of Formula 1 in Barranquilla was shared in January by President Duque and the city’s mayor, Jaime Pumarejo.
“Dreams, as a team, we are capable of making them come true. Mayor Pumarejo says that there is an option to present a project to have a circuit in Formula One. That seems far away, but the mayor has already been in talks with the Formula One team,” President Duque said on that occasion.
“There are twenty-two cities in the world that can say they have a Formula 1 circuit. These circuits are attended by 320,000 spectators in three days; they spend an average of 600 dollars a day and travel from more than 100 countries. 60 thousand international tourists enter in an (average) period of 10 days. That is almost doubling the number of international visitors who come to the Atlantic in three days and in a single event”, Pumarejo explained at the time.
President Duque, in a show of support, noted: We support Mayor Jaime Pumarejo’s dream that Barranquilla be linked in the Formula 1 circuit calendar with a Grand Prix in Colombia, which would bring enormous economic and tourist benefits to the city. You can count on our support.”
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We accompany the dream that he has @alcaldiabquilla, @jaimepumarejo, that Barranquilla be linked in the Formula 1 circuit calendar with a Grand Prix in Colombia, which would bring enormous economic and tourist benefits to the city. Count on our support. pic.twitter.com/J6Cc7C5ZDg
– Ivan Duke 🇨🇴 (@IvanDuque) January 22, 2022
Although many things are missing for the tourist income from the supposed Grand Prix to be as Pumarejo said in his initial statement, things seem to be taking more and more shape. Especially since the campaign slogan ‘Come Live Barranquilla, Live Atlantic’, an initiative of the department and its capital, It has been seen recently in scenarios such as the Bogotá International Book Fair and the circuits in which the young driver Nicolas Baptiste runs, who competes in the European Regional Formula.
Although there is still no greater knowledge of the role that the public administration will have in the project, the president-elect Gustavo Petro was questioned by the journalist Felipe Reyes about it.
“What do you think of Formula 1 in Barranquilla? Yes or no?”Reyes asked.
Petro, after releasing a slight smile, replied:
“First you have to solve hunger. Without solving hunger, what we would have is like an insult to the poorest society”.
“Solving hunger, Formula 1, 2, 3, whatever you want,” concluded the president-elect today.
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To date, without any confirmation, it has been known that the project contemplates a semi-urban circuit and that, according to a video that circulated on networks, it could be called the ‘Caribbean Grand Prix’.
So far there is no more information about the Formula 1 project in Barranquilla.
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