Brno Great Prize? Hippos of tickets
The most expensive item is a breakdown fee every year before the Grand Prize. This year was about a hundred fifteen million crowns. "Mass of people who will come to Brno at the Grand Prix will spend money on accommodation, food or entertainment, which should more or less balance the costs associated with organizing the event, including the unifying fee," the economist Petr Pelc assessed.
According to him, the importance of the race is also in attracting tourists to the city. "Brno does not have so much world tourist attractions. The great price attracts visitors from abroad. For Brno, it is important as well as the tuir airport or the exhibition centre. And these are the projects that support from public money," the economist said.
Great price in Brno
- costs for the past five years: 686 million crowns
- profits from the past five years: 682 million crowns
- problem: lack of money for organizing, increasing unifying fee for the promoter company Dorna
- possible solutions: more money from the state, use of advertising area, increase ticket price
- current state: negotiations on the new contract for organizing races for the next five years
According to the director of the Institute of Public Administration Filip Hrůzy, the organizers must now evaluate whether the race is advantageous for Brno. "Grand Prix sucks money from public budgets to other matters. To some extent, however, it is political, and not an economic question," he thinks.
In the future, the cost of motoring event can be even higher. In the game there is a variant of increasing the paving fee almost twice.
"The situation is not closed, we have to try to negotiate the best conditions with Dorna. It also depends on what extent the state is ready to contribute to organizing the race. If the worst scenario is fulfilled, I am afraid that it is not realistic that the city and the region pay off the amount," the Mayor Markéta Vaňková admitted to the Brno Mayor.
As Deník Equality informed, representatives of the South Moravian Region and Brno, because of the difficulties of obtaining money at the Great Prize, also act on the possibility of using advertising. "The condition of Dorny is that advertising must be placed in places that do not occupy cameras. The limited selection of companies, because if Dorna has the general sponsor, cannot be the second sponsor of the company from the same area," Vaňková explained.
More money can also be obtained from tickets in the following years. "We have to sit down and say what costs they will actually be. And we have to adapt to the revaluation of tickets," said the Brno opposition representative for the ANO movement and former Mayor Petr Vokřál.
Accident on D5: The highway closed the collision of trucks
The event was reported around 08:00 on the 22nd kilometre in the direction of Prague. "Dálnice is closed, at least for freight transport. Personal cars can go through a petrol," police spokesperson Michaela Richterová said in the morning. Operation managed to recover around 14:30. According to Richterová, the preliminary damage is at least two million crowns, the cause of an accident of police officers investigates.
The spokesperson for Central Bohemian firefighters Petr Svoboda said that one truck transported passenger vehicles and the second plastic granulate. "Due to the great impact, the transported vehicles were shifted, which had to first ensure the firefighters against any fall," he added.
One of the cars had a damaged fuel tank, from which it escaped about 200 liters of diesel. Another 200 liters have managed to draw firefighters. For the accident, the environmental department of the Beroun Town Hall was permitted due to the escape of fuels. The planting of crashed vehicles and passing through the motorway secured a private company, which took advantage of the contaminated soil.
