New Formel 1 Thai Grand Prix in Bangkok in the year 2014 ?
Thailand has not only a relatively new and active young lady prime minister, the government is also fighting for big international events. Should be done not only to attract new tourists, should also be done for the own inhabitants of the country. So TCEB ( Thailand Convention and Event Bureau), the official government related promoter of Thailands MICE Business, has the order from the government to bid for the World Expo 2020, the new Thai Formulare 1 Grand Prix in 2014 or 2015 and a new Lego-or Disneyland

At the World Expo bid Thailand is fighting against Antalya (Turkey) and the selection committee of the BIE, International Fair Office, will decide in early 2014 after a sideinspection in the year 2013.
For the Lego and Disneyland are just starting the conversation.
Before there was a quit rumor about the Thai Formel 1 but since a few days this Information becomes official. Dietrich Mateschitz, the Austrian Red Bull and Red Bull Racing owner and Sebastian Vettels Boss emphasizes and promotes a Thai Grand Prix, the former TCEB President Akapol Sorasuchart confirmend the bid and discussions with Bernie Ecclestone, he supposedly should have been approved – but only the contracts is missing.

Also the FIA President Jean Todt – also honorable Tourism Ambassador of Malaysia – will support the race in Bangkok.
Negotiations are under way for a Formula One Grand Prix in Thailand, confirmed Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz. The idea is good and we are in the middle of conversations, but I can not disclose any further details because it is not my responsibility. Bernie Ecclestone was not averse to this idea and it could soon be a contract signed. Would be in one or two years, a Formula One race in Thailand is possible, he said.
Mateschitz is also involved in the talks between Thailand and Ecclstone because Thailand is an important market for Red Bull. Mateschitz holds a 49% interest in the beverage company, a Thai family also 49 %.
In late 2010, showed the Red Bull driver Mark Webber with a Formula 1 race car this racing on a specially built street circuit on the Ratchadamnoen Avenue, a simulated race before thousands of cheering motorsport spectators.

Thailand has an existing venue for FIA-licensed races, the Bira Circuit, which was named after the only Thai Formula One driver, Prince Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanubandh who died in London in 1985. It is located in Pattaya and need significant and very expansive renovations in order to get a new FIA license. A street circuit in the capital seems to be the better option. Mateschitz still remembered the many viewers (100,000) visited the Formula One Show, so such a race could be guaranteed to succeed.
Thailand should receive encouragement from Bernie Ecclestone, Bangkok would be the second to Monaco street circuit, which would be in the F1 Race schedule. But if another course will be put in the F 1 schedule is not known. Ecclestones enthusiasm for racing in many different countries is wellknown and this opiniont could support his solution.
With 300 km/ in Bangkok

During these discussions, agreed Thailand Tourism and Sports Minister Chumpol Silpa-archa, the Governor of the Sports Authority Kanokphand Chulakasem, the Red Bull industry leader Chalerm Yoovidhya, as well as a Formula 1 representatives that a race on a course on Ratchadamnoen Avenue should be held instead to renovate a very expensive race track in Pattaya and adapt the current safety standard, Thailand should be taken as another street circuit in the formula 1 calendar.
Akapol Sorasuchart, the former president of the TCEB, Thai conference and exhibition office, hopes in front of a street race in Monaco or Singapore. “I think that a road race in Thailand could be interesting,” he told the Bangkok Post. As possible venue for a Formula 1 race in Thailand, he brought Bangkok into the discussions. “The Ratchadamnoen Avenue would be a good location because the atmosphere there is very good,” said Akapol. The historical Ratchadamnoen road connects the Royal Palace and the Grand Palace
Road course in the discussion
Thailand could be the next street circuit on the F1 calendar. Bernie Ecclestone was already in agreement, a contract could be signed soon, say insiders.
Are currently many points have to discussed, but “Ecclestone has agreed to the idea. Maybe we have to sign an agreement soon,” said Mateschitz, who is often in Thailand

On 7th. of March the Minister for Tourism and Sport, Chumpol Silpa-archa, announced that they had submitted an application to participate in the Formula 1 in 2014 to the President Bernie Ecclestone
After several meetings, the government confirmed that Thailand had planned to begin no later than 2014 as host of the Formula 1. In addition to various vehicle manufacturers and the PTT were also Red Bull, which has always been a strong relation to Thailand, delighted as the main sponsor of the reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel, are welcoming the proposal.
pictures : Red Bull Racing, one picture Tourism-Insider
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