GOVERNMENT ALLOCATES RESOURCES FOR F1 GP IN MONZA: SATISFACTION OF DEL SETTE AND TOMBOLATO
Rome, May 20, 2025. “Great satisfaction.” This is how Tullio Del Sette and Giovanni Battista Tombolato – respectively, Extraordinary Commissioner and Sub-Commissioner of the Automobile Club of Italy – commented on the approval, yesterday morning in the Council of Ministers, of the Infrastructure DL, which provides, among other things, resources for the organization of the two Italian stages of the Formula 1 World Championship (5 million euros per year, for the period 2026-2032) and 5.25 million for Imola 2025, which, last Sunday, at theAutodromo Internazionale Enzo and Dino Ferrari, marked a record-breaking edition, with more than 240 thousand fans and supporters crowding the stands and lawns.
According to Commissioner Del Sette, “the allocation of funds for the organization of the two Italian rounds of the Formula 1 World Championship – Monza and Imola – is a very important signal. The government’s attention, in fact, confirms the importance of the GPs for the economic induced on the respective territories and the promotion of the image and Made in Italy in the world, and it is also an implicit recognition of the quality and seriousness of the commitment of the ACI – Italian Automobile Sports Federation – in working to ensure our motorsport a future worthy of its extraordinary past.”
“A non-formal thanks to the Ministry of Infrastructure for this crucial step,” said Sub-Commissioner Tombolato – both for the world of tricolor motorsport and for the very economy of two of the most active and productive regions of our country. Monza and Imola, in fact, represent not only two exceptional sporting events loved and followed all over the world – only in Italy, last Sunday, the Imola GP glued to the TV more than 3 million viewers, with a share of 24.7% – but two extraordinary economic drivers, for the territory and the whole country, whose total induced activities touch, every year, the 600 million euro “.
(ACI Press Release)