{"id":295159,"date":"2023-11-26T10:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=295159"},"modified":"2023-11-26T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:39:04","slug":"eerie-abandoned-grand-prix-circuit-cost-540m-but-was-axed-from-f1-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/racing\/f1\/eerie-abandoned-grand-prix-circuit-cost-540m-but-was-axed-from-f1-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Eerie abandoned Grand Prix circuit cost \u00a3540m \u2013 but was axed from F1 calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    F1 has always been partial to a cool street race taking place at night – they’re even more excited if it takes place in a country of 97.47million people. <\/p>\n

    The Vietnamese Grand Prix was supposed to be one of the funkiest races on the motorsport calendar, that guaranteed excitement and also expanded the sport’s reach in new territories. Taking place on the streets of the South East Asian nation’s capital city of Hanoi, fans were looking forward to seeing what the country has to offer. <\/p>\n

    Hundreds of millions were invested into creating a brand new track which zipped around the city after a ten-year deal with F1 was signed in 2018. However, instead of the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, cyclists, tuk-tuk drivers, motorcyclists and the occasional car drives on the track – Daily Star Sport<\/i><\/b> has a look at the abandoned Hanoi Circuit. <\/p>\n

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      In 2018, the Vietnamese Grand Prix was announced as the first new race since Liberty Media took over the sport in the previous year – a £54m ten-year deal believed to have been paid for by private conglomerate, VinGroup was agreed<\/span><\/p>\n

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