F1 plans for SCOTTISH Grand Prix revealed

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F1 plans for SCOTTISH Grand Prix revealed

Plans for a Scottish Grand Prix have been unveiled

Kerry Violet F1 News Editor

F1 editor and journalist covering motorsport since 2024.

Thursday 6 February 2025 13:42

Plans for a Scottish Grand Prix have been revealed by a former Formula 1 star as the ever-growing series ramps up preparations for its return in less than two months time.

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The sport has grown in popularity exponentially since the release of the Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive, most notably so across the pond.

The demands of this growing demographic have been met with the addition of the controversial Las Vegas Grand Prix, with the street race joining the US GP which is held in Austin and the Miami GP, which look set to remain on the lineup for years to come as the sport grows in north America.

Now, former F1 racer and pundit David Coulthard has spoken about plans which were kick-started by his fellow countryman Jackie Stewart to improve track facilities in Scotland.

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Jackie Stewart (left) raced in F1 between 1965 and 1973

Stewart is only one of two F1 world champions to have hailed from Scotland

Jackie Stewart Scottish GP plan unveiled

Speaking on the latest episode of the Formula For Success podcast, Coulthard responded to a question over the chances of the ever-growing calendar adding a Scottish GP return into the mix.

The former McLaren star recalled a story from the past, relating to three-time champion Stewart's plans to bring the pinnacle of motorsport to Scotland.

"Around 1990 Jackie Stewart was leading a consortium who had a plan to build what was going to be called New Ingliston. Ingliston was a small race track close to Edinburgh airport, which I raced at once. And it was tiny. It was a sort of Mallory Park, or Brands Hatch indy racetrack, so it would never be able to host any major races.

"And in typical Jackie style, this was was going to be a huge facility. It was going to be something that could be used, not only for motor racing, car launches, you know, official test sessions. It was going to be something that would be able to wet the track. Not that that would probably be a big requirement in Scotland. It would probably be wet most of the time. But anyway, it was going to be an incredible facility that would bring opportunity to that area of Scotland.

"Of course like in so many of these scenarios, it didn't get local support, didn't get Council, support, and the whole idea, died off and that really was the last opportunity I think to have any major racetrack in Scotland."

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