Lagos Marina GP Street Circuit Debuts Soon

Plans are in top gear to organise motor racing championship in Nigeria as GRC Motor sport is planning to stage a Street Circuit in Lagos very soon.

The motor racing championship, which will be called Lagos Marina GP Street Circuit, will hold next year if the plans which had been begun three years ago come to reality.

Nigeria Racing Eagle’ Team Principal, Ribi Adeshokan told journalists in Lagos while unveiling the five African drivers of the Racing Eagles, said that “a renowned street circuit designer was invited to Lagos three years ago to do the initial survey and Lagos Marina has been picked for the Street Circuit which is similar to Monaco.

Adeshokan noted that one of the reasons GRC Motorsport wants to bring Street Circuit to Lagos was that they noticed that Monaco Street Circuit has been of a great advantage to the residents of that city.

He said fifty thousand cars from the GT Series would be brought to Lagos with attending visitors of at least ten thousand people all over the world who would be coming to Lagos to spend their hard currency, adding that the race which would boost the city's tourism potentials would also serve as a good image laundering for the country.

It was gathered that if the plans to stage the Lagos Marina GP eventually come to the reality, it would compete with other Street Circuits in Africa such Ain-Diab, Morocco, F1,  Marrakech, Morocco, WTCC, Mellaha Lake, Libya and Durban, South Africa , A1GP.

The drivers of the Racing Eagle, who were unveiled included former Red Bull Test Driver, Adrian Zaugg, from South Africa. 

Christian Ebong from Cameroon and Gugu Zulu from South Africa while the Nigerians in the crew are Sam Collins, Nathan Wright and Ovie Iroro.