Alonso: "We can't lose Barcelona"

While Madrid will regain the Spanish Grand Prix next year, Barcelona is set to host a race that could prove to be its last. At the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, local hero, Fernando Alonso, was obviously asked about this. The new ambassador of the Barcelona circuit was very clear that Barcelona will indeed host a Grand Prix in 2026, as well as, in principle, winter testing. For the future, he is confident.

"I don't think we're going to lose Barcelona. That's my opinion and my wish," he explained at a press conference. "It's great to have new countries and new circuits interested in F1, but we also have to keep traditional circuits, where the history of F1 was written. Formula 1 is very linked to Barcelona, ​​we've been testing here for decades. If you asked all the teams to keep just one track for testing, I think they would all choose Barcelona. We'll be back next year with new cars and new regulations."

The pilot Aston Martin He also expressed satisfaction with the improvements made to the track that debuted on the calendar in 1991 in recent years. To counter the emergence of Middle Eastern tracks and upcoming semi-urban projects like Las Vegas, Miami, and Madrid, the "traditional" circuits must catch up. And the forty-year-old asserted that while the new circuits will only be there temporarily, Barcelona will still be there in almost half a century.

"I think the circuit has made some good changes to maintain the standards of Formula 1. Over the last few years, the whole paddock, the grandstands, everything has moved to a higher level. Barcelona has been there for the last two or three decades. Barcelona will be there for another ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. Some of the new circuits will only be there for a while and will certainly disappear again. We can't lose Barcelona."

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