I don’t see Formula One Cyprus as a viable option

Sir,
While the proposal for a Formula One circuit in Cyprus is an interesting costly exercise, the crowded calendar makes it very unlikely that an event could be staged here, and the cost would be prohibitive without government funding.

This could only be a pipe-dream with the EU constraints giving the Finance Ministry a hard time in making ends meet. The mind boggles at the prospect of 70,000 spectators being released on to our highway system at the end of a race meeting.

Providing accommodation could be a problem, too, we have about 100,000 beds in hotels and apartments and they usually have an occupancy of near to an average of 60 per cent.

Mr Anastasiou is quite right in his remark that a glass-bottomed bridge does not exist in any other circuit, for the simple reason that the FIA would never sanction it.

Were a bridge walkway necessary at a circuit it has to be so constructed that it does not provide a viewpoint for static spectators, to avoid physical overloading by the public using it as a vantage point.
Maurice Sokel,
Paphos

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