De Marianna Giannoni / Corsedimoto.com
The Igora Drive circuit is located in Russia, near Saint Petersburg. It should have been completed in July 2022, after the extension of the route. The work to extend the track was entrusted to the San Marino designer Giuseppe Muscioni…
Igora Drive is located in Russia, near St. Petersburg. It should have become the most beautiful and complete mechanical complex at the international level. Inaugurated in 2019, it should have been much more than a circuit but the only facility in the world capable of hosting World Motocross Championship races, Formula F1, MotoGP and World Superbike races.
It could have but it won't.
The war in Ukraine froze everything, a few months after the end of the work, with the lengthening of the runway. Igora Drive was designed by German architect Hermann Tilke. The San Marino designer Giuseppe Muscioni, known as the one who designed the Imola circuit, before the restyling of Tilke himself, also worked on the installation.
« At Igora Drive, I was specifically concerned with the extension of the track,” explains Giuseppe Muscioni, “it would have exceeded 5 kilometers with 2 beautiful straight lines, very long and with a considerable difference in altitude. The motorbikes there would have exceeded 325 km/h. The work was almost finished, only the last details were missing and it would have been ready next summer. Now they were finishing making the wards. From 2023, it should have hosted the Formula 1 Grand Prix and in subsequent years also motorcycle races. »
Now everything is at a standstill?
« Liberty Media canceled the contract and as far as the motorcycles are concerned everything is frozen. Nothing more is done. For now, Igora Drive is intended to become a facility for Russian national races. What can I say ? It would have been one of the most beautiful circuits in the world, but things have happened that are much worse than us. We can't do anything about it. When there is a war, the result is always negative, in all areas. »
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