Petronas not managing ticket sales for F1 race at Sepang in October – company only holds naming rights to circuit

Petronas has clarified that portion it holds the naming rights to the Sepang International Circuit (SIC), it does not ain the contention way located successful Sepang, Selangor. Instead, the circuit is owned by Sepang International Circuit Sdn Bhd, a institution nether the Minister of Finance Incorporated (MOF Inc) and is operated by an bureau nether the ministry of younker and sports.

As such, the institution is not the lawsuit organiser for the Formula 1 contention acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Malaysia astatine the Sepang International Circuit (SIC) successful October this year. In an official release, the institution stated that it does not manage, power oregon person entree to summons allocation, income oregon distribution.

It added that summons income for the upcoming lawsuit are managed solely by the lawsuit organiser and its authorised channels. For now, we’re are inactive waiting for authoritative details regarding summons income – ‘Madani tickets’, anyone?

On July 26, it was announced that the Bahrain Grand Prix volition beryllium relocated to Malaysia, with the lawsuit officially called the ‘Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix successful Malaysia’. This takes spot implicit the play of October 2-4 and slots successful betwixt the Azerbaijan Grand Prix (September 24-26) and Singapore Grand Prix (October 9-11).

As antecedently reported, a Malaysian halt connected the Formula 1 calendar was heavy rumoured to regenerate the Bahrain GP, which was primitively scheduled for April 10-12. The West Asia struggle forced Formula 1 to denote successful March that it would cancel the Bahrain contention on with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix (April 17-19).

The cancellations shortened the play from the primitively planned 24 races to conscionable 22. While Saudi Arabia’s contention volition not beryllium rescheduled, Malaysia’s statement to big the Bahrain contention without bearing the afloat fiscal burden means we are present up to 23 races. The past clip Malaysia hosted a Formula 1 contention was successful 2017.

This isn’t the archetypal clip wherever a Formula 1 contention isn’t held wherever the determination successful the lawsuit sanction suggests. There was the 1982 Switzerland Grand Prix that really took spot astatine the Dijon-Prenois circuit successful France, portion the Luxembourg Grand Prix successful 1997 and 1998 was held conscionable implicit the borderline astatine the Nürburgring successful Germany.

Old rules restricting countries to 1 expansive prix per twelvemonth besides saw the San Marino Grand Prix beryllium held astatine Imola, Italy from 1981 to 2006. Under Liberty Media ownership, Formula 1 nary longer adheres to this limit, hence wherefore the United States has 3 races (Miami, Austin and Las Vegas).

The station Petronas not managing summons income for F1 contention astatine Sepang successful October – institution lone holds naming rights to circuit appeared archetypal connected Paul Tan's Automotive News.