Emilia-Romagna doesn’t quit
F1 formally introduced this morning the 2026 calendar, which doesn’t embrace the Emilia-Romagna GP at Imola. The contract was legitimate till 2025, and the 2023 version canceled on account of flooding was not recovered in 2026 as hoped by native authorities. The place of the Imola GP has been taken by the Madrid GP, whose circuit have to be homologated, and it isn’t sure that the work will likely be accomplished inside the set deadlines.
Because of this, the Madrid GP is included within the calendar with an asterisk. Imola can be the ‘substitute’ in case of a forfeit. Beneath is the joint assertion from the President of the Emilia-Romagna Area Michele de Pascale and the Mayor of Imola Marco Panieri relating to the provisional 2026 F1 calendar.
“The provisional Method 1 Grand Prix calendar for the 2026 season has been launched, and Imola is excluded. That is information we have been conscious of and that understandably raises questions, disappointment, and a way of bitterness exterior, as a result of over these years our territory has confirmed able to internet hosting a unprecedented occasion with file numbers, capable of mix worldwide status, promotion of Made in Italy, the Motor Valley, and tangible returns for the financial and tourism system of our land and the entire nation. Certainly, the Imola Grand Prix was one of the vital cherished and appreciated by followers and drivers alike, as strongly expressed even within the days following the occasion, and its uniqueness on the planet was evident: uniting the race on monitor with the encircling territory, beginning with a historic middle lively.
Nonetheless, we need to be very clear: this information doesn’t characterize the tip. For the Area and the territory, the trail undertaken by Imola and the Made in Italy and Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix doesn’t finish right here. We have been conscious of the complexity of the dynamics linked to the calendar, and the state of affairs was very difficult from the beginning. The contract signed in 2021 – which on the time few believed attainable – offered for the steady return of the Grand Prix to Imola till 2025. Because the Emilia-Romagna Area and the Municipality of Imola, among the many selling companions, we’ve got really completed every thing attainable at this stage. We repeatedly highlighted, in varied methods, to all of the actors concerned, the significance and strategic nature of the matter. We did this with transparency, readability, most availability, and institutional cooperation. Furthermore, the territory, as Emilia-Romagna Area and as Municipality of Imola / territorial Consortium Con.Ami, had for over a 12 months confirmed its availability and budgeted the required assets additionally for 2026, as requested by different institutional and sporting companions after the dedication made to get well the missed 2023 version because of the dramatic flood occasions. This territory, when it makes a dedication, is used to respecting it and being prepared when wanted: as in 2020, when, in a world blocked by COVID, the Imola circuit made itself accessible to assist a struggling Method 1. Nonetheless, this isn’t the time for controversies, finger-pointing, or giving in to resignation.
Now it’s time for everybody to take duty and resume discussions for a return to the calendar. That’s the reason, in latest days, as early as Might 26, we requested the Authorities and the sports activities authority for an Institutional Desk to exactly study phrases and strategies of assist and joint work to deliver the Method 1 Grand Prix again to Imola. Inside this Desk, and consistent with the eye the Authorities has at all times proven in direction of us, we’ll proceed the trail to return as protagonists, as a rustic, as Made in Italy, as a Area and as a territory within the Method 1 calendar. The imaginative and prescient of an ever larger multifunctionality of the Autodromo as a middle of development, sports activities diplomacy, improvement, innovation, and tradition stays a assure and retains the circuit’s calendar wealthy, enticing, and worldwide. As we speak we declare this imaginative and prescient, which has introduced the circuit again to the focus and curiosity. Over these years, we’ve got appreciated the extraordinary and distinctive alternatives we’ve got on the planet. We’ll proceed to nurture them. To those that stay and love Imola, Emilia-Romagna, and this Grand Prix, we are saying that at a second when it will be simple to provide in to ineffective controversies and disappointment, it’s as an alternative time for tenacity and more and more broad constructive dedication from everybody. The sport will not be over right here, and till now we’ve got completed issues that only some years in the past appeared inconceivable. We’ll preserve believing in it, with conviction and readability, with the pleasure of a territory that, along with different institutional companions, has proven it is aware of how you can dream huge and concretely construct alternatives.”
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