For the moment, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix It is not the protagonist neither because of the pilots nor the adrenaline of the Formula 1. The weather has put Red alert to the Italian region.
During this Tuesday the Imola circuit was evacuated, and this Wednesday it is closed with the F2 and F3 paddock flooded with two days to go before free practice, which means a great risk for the event to take place.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Salvini, bet on the cancellation of the Grand Prix this weekend to make it postponed.
Salvini explains that all troops must be focused on evacuations: “Let’s dedicate ourselves to the rescues”stood out in ‘Gazzeta Motori’.
It is necessary and important to concentrate all the forces to fronteggiare the emergency, avoiding other problems such as the sovraccarico of traffic in a hard-hit area that has many people.
Attendiamo i pareri ufficiali, ma nel caso del rinvio del Gran Premio di Imola… pic.twitter.com/h6YLftALIV
— Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) May 17, 2023
“In this phase it is necessary to concentrate all the efforts to deal with the emergencyalso avoiding traffic overloads in a badly affected area“, expressed
“He postponement of the Imola Grand Prixscheduled for the weekend, It’s appropriate before the emergency for bad time that plagues Emilia Romagna“, he added.
In the event that the postponement is decreed at two in the afternoon in the new update, Minister Salvini believes that the Grand Prix could be held at “a later stage”.
“The hope is that the Grand Prix can be recovered at a later stage. Formula 1 fans will understand and share this choice,” he stressed.
alarming situation
Nello Musumeci, Minister of Civil Protection, stressed that “twenty-four municipalities are floodedall rThe rivers of Emilia Romagna have unfortunately overflowed“.
“The average rainfall is 200 millimeters in 36 hours, but in some zones has reached the 500 millimeters. If we take into account that in a year the rainfall in that region is 1,000 millimeters, we will realize how strong the rains have been in the last 36 hours,” he added.
