Lippo Village street circuit fails to meet deadline
Round Five of the 2008/09 A1GP World Cup of Nations championship was supposed to take place at a new street circuit in Lippo Village in Indonesia. Ths event will now be dropped from the calendar as the street circuit has failed to meet the requisite completion deadlines in some aspects and as a result the FIA will not be able to issue the necessary circuit licence on time for the event to proceed.
The A1GP CEO Pete Da Silva comments: “Obviously it is extremely disappointing for all concerned and not the news any of us wanted. The bottom line is, for safety reasons, A1GP cannot race on a circuit that does not meet or has not received the necessary licence from the FIA, so we have no other option but to cancel all plans to bring the A1GP show to Indonesia in three weeks’ time.”
