Inside the event: The Hanoi Street Circuit, built to host the 2020 Vietnam Grand Prix before the event was cancelled, finally hosted its first race yesterday.
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Vietnam’s abandoned F1 circuit will host its first racing action.
The Hanoi circuit was designed to be a 5.6km circuit with a mixture of city streets and a fixed corner sequence in the final sector. However, in the year The 2020 inaugural race was canceled due to the pandemic and has been unable to return to the calendar due to a series of problems, including the arrest of Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman Duc Chung, who was closely involved in the race.
Construction of the permanent section of the track was completed but remains unused. That is until Honda Vietnam hosted Honda’s Thanksgiving Day New Year event at the venue yesterday. A series of motorcycle races were held around a modified version of the circuit, with the first corner cut into S-bends that would form the third sector of the Grand Prix circuit.
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Former DTM champion Matthias Ekström will pick his first place for the opening main stage of the 2023 Dakar Rally after setting the fastest time in the car category in the qualifying stage in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Ekström was fastest in the 13km preliminaries, second to nine-time World Endurance Champion Sébastien Loeb. Reigning World Rally Raid Champion and 2022 Dakar winner Nasser Al-Attiyah was fourth fastest, while Carlos Sainz was sixth in the standings.
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