2023 Season

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Originally Posted by bathurst77

Whatever happened to Vietnam

I think 2020 when it was due to first run it succumbed to the Pandemic, and although it had a long contract and backers in place the Mayor of Hanoi who was a major not to mention generous supporter and string puller, who I daresay gave a lot of green lights, got thrown in the slammer for a long stint on account of his involvement in a number of major frauds.

Without him the race had few supporters in high places, and little funding. IIRC the local Govt said it was not going to be even a consideration for many years yet.

I daresay the $60million hosting fees per year said mayor had agreed to is a bit of a stumbling block in his absence.

[S griffin]

It was never going to happen, especially after the pandemic. So we can forget about it. With one man behind it, no one was going to take over the project when he went down. It's consigned to the scrapheap. But it's no great loss either, I never felt it would be that good anyway