{"id":214338,"date":"2025-10-21T00:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214338\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:41:09","slug":"madrids-f1-preparations-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214338\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid&#8217;s F1 preparations ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date\">OCTOBER 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Madrid&#8217;s preparations to host the Spanish GP from 2026 are &#8220;progressing faster than expected,&#8221; according to regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who visited Austin at the weekend to observe how Formula 1 events are run on a global stage.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandprix.com\/display\/photo?photo_caption=Fernando+Alonso%2C+Spanish+GP+2025&amp;photo_copyright=%C2%A9+Aston+Martin+Racing&amp;photo_url=https%3A%2F%2Fphotos.grandprix.com%2Fjpeg%2Fraces%2Fpspa25%2Fsun%2Famr%2Falonso6-lg.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/alonso6-rd.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso, Spanish GP 2025<br \/>\u00a9 Aston Martin Racing<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to DAZN from the Circuit of the Americas &#8211; where F1 announced a new deal securing the United States GP until 2034 &#8211; Ayuso confirmed that construction of the new Madring street circuit is moving swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>The work is going well &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s going faster than expected, she said. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start paving the stadium in the coming days, and then what we&#8217;re doing is looking at the access points, trying to make it as comfortable as possible for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>She said the visit to Austin provided valuable insight into the logistics of hosting such a major international event. We&#8217;re very happy to be here and see firsthand the organisation of an event like this, Ayuso explained. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impressive what it moves throughout the city &#8211; the atmosphere, the scale, the magnitude of an event like this &#8211; you have to see it from within to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Ayuso added that excitement in Spain for the 2026 race continues to build, noting that Spanish driver Carlos Sainz has become an unofficial ambassador for the project.<\/p>\n<p>We see a lot of excitement about the Grand Prix in Madrid, she said. Everyone has talked to us about it, they&#8217;ve asked us. And then, since Carlos Sainz is among them &#8211; being an ambassador for everyone &#8211; it makes it even more interesting, more exciting. There&#8217;s a lot of expectation.<\/p>\n<p>The new Madring circuit, based around the IFEMA exhibition complex in the northeast of the city, has endangered the future of Barcelona&#8217;s long-running F1 event.<\/p>\n<p>(GMM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCTOBER 20, 2025 Madrid&#8217;s preparations to host the Spanish GP from 2026 are &#8220;progressing faster than expected,&#8221; according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8630,8552,8581,8607,8594,8540,7984,8588,8627,639,8616,8561,8565,7816,891,8571,8602,8593,1687,8538,8600,8545,6542,831,8097,372,7318,6537,8564,8573,8590,8541,8542,8536,8604,1373,8557,8605,8622,8609,1348,8583,8625,8535,8537,8555,386,8572,8558,8547,8567,8551,8596,8563,8543,8577,8629,8585,8575,832,8578,8560,8624,8626,8606,8556,1469,6864,8617,8620,8592,8619,8580,8628,6865,3005,8597,8568,8549,8546,8584,8569,8587,8610,3004,8539,3803,8611,8554,8576,8589,8566,8623,8582,7386,8544,8579,8548,8562,8618,8098,3718,8621,101,8614,8615,8598,8559,8613,8612,8570,1644,56,54,55,8601,8608,8591,8550,8553,8574,2922,8599,8595,8603,8586],"class_list":["post-214338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-adrian-sutil","tag-albers","tag-alesi","tag-ammermuller","tag-autoracing","tag-autos","tag-badoer","tag-bahrain","tag-barcelona","tag-benetton","tag-bruno-senna","tag-button","tag-cars","tag-china","tag-david-coulthard","tag-davidson","tag-doornbos","tag-f1","tag-f1-racing","tag-fauzy","tag-felipe-massa","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-ferrari","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-giancarlo-fisichella","tag-gilles-villeneuve","tag-glock","tag-grand-prix","tag-grandprix","tag-grandprix-com","tag-hakkinen","tag-hamilton","tag-heikki-kovalainen","tag-hill","tag-hockenheim","tag-honda","tag-hungary","tag-ide","tag-indianapolis","tag-inside-f1","tag-insidef1-com","tag-jaime-alguesuari","tag-japan","tag-jaques-villeneuve","tag-jarno-trulli","tag-jenson-button","tag-juan-pablo-montoya","tag-kamui-kobayashi","tag-karthikeyan","tag-karun-chandhok","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-klien","tag-korea","tag-kovalainen","tag-kubica","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-liuzzi","tag-lucas-di-grassi","tag-magny-cours","tag-malaysia","tag-mansell","tag-mark-webber","tag-mclaren","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-minardi","tag-monaco","tag-montagny","tag-monte-carlo","tag-monteiro","tag-montreal","tag-monza","tag-motorsport","tag-nakajima","tag-nick-heidfeld","tag-nico-hulkenberg","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-paffett","tag-pedro-de-la-rosa","tag-piquet","tag-prost","tag-racing","tag-racingcars","tag-red-bull","tag-renault","tag-robert-kubica","tag-rosberg","tag-rossiter","tag-rubens-barrichello","tag-san-marino","tag-sato","tag-sauber","tag-schumacher","tag-scott-speed","tag-sebastian-vettel","tag-sebastien-buemi","tag-senna","tag-silverstone","tag-singapore","tag-spa","tag-sports","tag-spyker","tag-super-aguri","tag-sutil","tag-timo-glock","tag-toro-rosso","tag-toyota","tag-trulli","tag-turkey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-valles","tag-verstappen","tag-vettel","tag-vitaly-petrov","tag-vitantonio-liuzzi","tag-webber","tag-williams","tag-winkelhock","tag-wurz","tag-yamamoto","tag-zonta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}