Remember the KL City Grand Prix, the launch of which we covered in December? Yup, between August 7 and 9, Kuala Lumpur is set to see GT racing teams, their drivers and their cars do battle on her streets, within a specially-designed 3.2 km street circuit in the KLCC area.
With the action only five months away, organiser GT Global Race (M) Sdn Bhd has released a TVC outlining the event and its highlights. The KL City Grand Prix is estimated by PricewaterhouseCoopers to draw 100,000 new visitors to the country, create over 6,300 jobs from the first event and raise RM750 million in national income.
We’ve also included a video of the proposed circuit from a driver’s view. The planned 11-turn circuit starts at KLCC Suria and proceeds through Jalan P Ramlee, Jalan Ampang, Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan Pinang before returning to the chequered flag. It should certainly make for quite a spectacle.
Chaired by YAM Tunku Naquiyuddin ibni Tuanku Ja’afar and headed by president and CEO M. Arrasu, GT Global Race has engaged Shanghai Top Speed to stage selected rounds of certain international race events in KL, including the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Cup, Formula Masters and Scirocco Cup.
Partners include DBKL (for exclusive rights to hold the KL City Grand Prix for five years), AAM (for race organisation and FIA homologation), plus UK-based APEX and Australia-based KBR (for street circuit design and development).
Horsepower-bristling GT machines thundering through the streets of KL? We can’t wait!
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Hmmm… Wondering out … Sepang is for what? Cycling? Another ‘money making’ project ar? GST sudah samnpai … don’t try to fool Malaysian again … maybe someone always watch movie of Fast & Furious ….
ok what. this is something different.
than why build swimming pool leh?just go port dickson loh.this is ‘CITY GRAND PRIX’.you want them to do a ‘City’Grand Prix at sepang?seem legit….
tbf, city/street grand prix is all about hype but the racing itself most of the time is boring and processional
Then what’s the use of Sepang circuit ?
This is’City Grand Prix’ ofcourse it will held in city lah.sepang is race track not ‘CITY’
xyah la.. kasi jam je…
‘Creates 6300 jobs’ but disadvantages hundred thousands
better fix the potholes…
okay after work later can go try recce do TT at Jalan P. Ramlee. set best time, see lambo trofeo cup can beat or not.
WTF..this will cause massive traffic jam leading to the race wt road closure etc..etc…why do u need this? We already have world class F1 circuit in Sepang!!!!!!!!
This track doesn’t look attractive, so many left turns and one only for right turns, the bends is also minimal and long stretch of straight track. Boring…
Hahaha…. Raise RM750million in national income? For whom? Selected few?
6300 jobs? Really? Goes to whom? Malaysians or mostly foreigners? Care to elaborate…
Btw, Messrs PwC what about lost time and productivities of Klang Valley residents due to traffic jams and gridlock over that weekend? Care to tell the world about that also? Aiyooo if tell one side of story sure everything can go ahead one…. But in this case the net impact is more negatives than positives…
Skilled job goes to Bangla, Nepal, Indon
(local people lazy- the rude rich said)
Highly paid to European/Japan and maybe China..
(local no experience – faile to plan -rude rich said)
Middle man to Local Con-man Croney
(that is me & my blessed family- rude rich said)
total = 6300 jobs
most challenging circuit in the world with massive potholes…monorail wheels that could fall anytime…and the random sudden mat rempit
Another point to add… If u want to copy Singapore bcos of their street circuit GP then havent u organisers realised first and foremost they have a better public transportation ?
So copy that first before coming up with this street circuit GT racing idea….
kami x nk Supercar lumba atas jalan raya..
kami nk kancil turbo, wira turbo..
ini aku suka!
how much the ticket price? if cheap good lah. no need to pay for f1 anymore. very mahal.
tv ads using shots from gran turismo and other intelectual properties… good luck getting sued
No need la…
Wth… Stay out of d city… Ppl got some living to do…
Please get rid of such event in KL, go to Sepang or better still Putrajaya. The occasional marathon etc in KL is enough to spoil my weekend.
Commercial using video game and formula 1 intellectual properties. Geez, can these guys be creative?!?!
anyone here actually go to Sepang Circuits race events regularly? as spectators.. and not just for F1, motogp, and SBK. Sepang has always been very poorly spectated in comparison with other circuit events in the region.. I see this KL GP as a good “experiment” to see if a street circuit in the middle of the city can fulfill whats been missing from Sepang.
When they setup the formula-e in Putrajaya, it took them quite sometime to put the barriers (probably a month) and then there’s also time for them to take the barriers down. This is Putrajaya where the traffics is not so bad other than the short period of rush hour in the morning and evening. Do it in the heart of KL and this going to be a nightmare for commuters leading to the events and also after.
750millions?? Seriously? Or some mathematics error there? 100,000 “new” visitors? Wow! Oh really? Even Lousy Sepang management couldn’t made that, but AAM can? Not only takes time to set up but the cost to install/barricade the area with those FIA-approved gates is NOT CHEAP! Not normal fence will do, ok? I can see another money-wasting “event” just to “TUNJUK MUKA” regardless of the event is worth to invest or not… I guess DBKL earn quite a lot $$$ from this event since they proposed to build their EXTREMEly EXPENSIVE building that exposed recently?
more kids will die on the road under influence of this kind of so called ‘motorsport’ shit
Nothing better to do??….
KL oredi jam crazy during the day, and now this stupid KL CITY GP???? Siapa syoik sendiri nie??