Saudi Arabia’s big plan to move McLaren’s F1 HQ to the Middle East
The Middle East’s invol🌞vement in F1 and sp✅ort in general has been on the up.
S🧜audi Arabia are a minority stakeholder in McLaren, while Aramco - a major Saudi oil company - are one of Aston Martin’s major sponsors.
The Kingdom’s inaugural F1 race took place in 2021 in Jeddah, with plans to develop another circ𝄹uit to host grands prix.
As revealed by Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Al Faisal, president of the Saudi Auto😼mobile and Motorcycle Federation, they want to create their own “racing hub” to attract manufacturers and motorspoꦛrt in general
“We want to create a hub,” he told Motor Sport Magazine. “We have big companies that can help the future of motor sport. This is what we are hoping for and this is what we are working for. Hope🀅fully we can bring one of the big manufacturers.
“With all the investing we are doing in cars - the private investment fund bought shares iꦯn McLaren and Aston Martin - we are heading that way. Hopefully we can open and bring headquarters to Saudi Arabia or we hire people that can help us manufacture cars or technology, to create our own brands and have our own IPs [intellectual property rights].”
Saudi Arabia’s long term goal is to have a world champion in F1 and MotoGP from the country - whether that’s in t𝓡he next 10, 15 or 20 years.
“We have a 20-year programme that hopefully will launch at the end of ’23, early ’24,” he ♐added. “Our aim is not just to host international events, we want to be involved m🌼ore. We want to have engineers, we want to have mechanics, we want to build cars, we want to be creative.
“We really want to have a champion, a driver that can compete in🌠 the championship for F1, whꦬo can compete in MotoGP. We are investing a lot in infrastructures, in building tracks in Saudi Arabia.
“We want to build academies so we can be more involved: Saudi teams with Saudi drivers or other drivers to race in Saudi teams. It’s still a long way aheaꦦd but hopefully by 2030, 2035, 2040 we can ach🦋ieve our goals.”
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