''I congratulate Singapore on joining the club''Malaysia's Grand Prix will not be affected by Singapore winning the right to host a race, the head of the Sepang circuit said today.
Singapore today announced that it had won the right to hold a Grand Prix, which will
be held either in September or early October on a street circuit.
"I congratulate Singapore on joining the club of Formula One hosts. Next year will be their first year and it will be our tenth," Mokhzani Mahathir, Chairman of the Sepang International Circuit, told AFP.
"The people in Southeast Asia will have a chance to see both now, a city street circuit and ours, which is a race circuit, so it will be interesting," he said.
Malaysia's sports minister Azalina Othman said last month said there should only be one F1 race in Southeast Asia, but Mokhzani said the development would promote the sport.
"It will not affect F1 in Malaysia, instead it will promote F1 in the region," said Mokhzani. "Theirs... will be towards the end of the year and ours will be at the beginning, so we will get to see how the season starts and ends," he added.
Last month Mokhzani announced that Malaysia had won the right to host Formula One races until 2015.
Source AFP
