21/06/2007
NEWS STORY
A Formula One race in Tunisia?
Why not, everyone else seems to be getting them these days.
A group of investors is understood to be looking at a 250 hectare site close to the town of Enfidha, where a new airport is currently being built, with a view to building a new F1-spec circuit.
In addition to agriculture, mining, energy, petroleum, and manufacturing, Tunisia, which is on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, has a thriving tourism industry, though - like so many other nations - it might be thought that this could only benefit from the prestige which F1 would bring.