The mayor of Vila Real launched this Sunday a “cry of warning” for the lack of support that puts the 2023 edition of the International Circuit and the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) at risk.
Rui Santos lamented the lack of support from the Government for the organization of the Vila Real International Circuit and also criticized the Portuguese Federation of Automobile Racing and Karting (FPAK), Eurosport and the companies that “inexplicably” increase prices and those who ask the organization a bracelet for which you are not able to pay 10 euros.
For all these reasons, the socialist mayor said, at a press conference, that, at the end of this edition, the organization that makes up the Clube Automóvel de Vila Real (CAVR), the Association for the Promotion of the Vila Real International Circuit (APCIVR ) and the municipality, will reflect and weigh all these facts.
Contrary to what I would like to guarantee here today that, next year, we would have the Vila Real International Circuit again with the circumstances that we have today or very similar, I cannot and do not want to guarantee that. I can’t and don’t want to commit to that and we’ll probably have to rethink all of this,” he stressed.
And he continued: “When our partners, all of them, do not want to dance with us, it is very difficult to complete the circuit in these circumstances.”
Asked if the 2023 edition, either of the circuit or of the only Portuguese stage of the WTCR, which features the Portuguese driver Tiago Monteiro, may be at risk, Rui Santos replied in the affirmative.
The warning from the mayor who resumed the races in the city of Trás-os-Montes in 2014, after years of interruption, was made public this Sunday, on the last day of the 51st edition of the Vila Real International Circuit and the main races of the WTCR.
Source: Observadora
