India promises affordable F1 tickets 20/05/2010 |
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Indian Grand Prix organisers have promised affordable tickets and tight security when Formula 1 makes its debut in the country next year.
A new circuit is being built 35km outside the capital New Delhi by industrial conglomerate the Jaypee Group, with a race pencilled in for October 2011.
Mark Hughes, vice-president of Jaypee subsidiary JPSK Sports, told Reuters that organisers were carrying out market research on ticket pricing.
"We are looking at the range of tickets for the high end of cricket games, the international Test matches, the IPL games," he said. "We are looking at the ticketing for the Commonwealth Games and we are also looking at the other races and trying to find a balance.
"There will be a reasonably affordable general admission and there will probably be about 25,000 general tickets.
"I'd like to think that we can make it affordable in the same way that Malaysia did. Malaysia have a very good, affordable entry ticket price."
Hughes added that security would be tight in a country where sporting events have already been targeted by bombers.
"We will have things like built-in underground scanners so when a car drives in every vehicle will get scanned," he continued. "At the same time, we will look at how we integrate that with the CCTV systems.
"We will have a reasonably sophisticated ticketing system that will be very difficult to forge. There will be a turnstile system at every entrance and every ticket will be electronic. Security will be ramped up – it has to be."
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