Organisers of inaugural Indian Grand Prix hoping to avoid ticketing troubles – Formula 1 news
The Indian Grand Prix organisers have stated that they will do their best in making the tickets available to make sure the fans of Formula 1 in India do not suffer.
In the recently held ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, fans from all over the country struggled to get their hands on the tickets.
The company responsible for ticket sales for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix, Bigtree Entertainment chief Ashish Hemrajani stated that the fans of Formula 1 in India will get the best customer support available in the country for the race tickets.
Ashish explained the working procedure of his company. He said, “We do ticketing for events, concerts, plays... in the Indian Premier League (IPL) we do it for Mumbai, Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan. Even in IPL, there was tremendous rush but nothing went wrong.
We are used to handling it. Our system works seamlessly.”
Previously two major events in India were mishandled courtesy some bad management and customer support. The 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India was the first of the two major events which saw the fans being unable to get the tickets of the tournament.
Surprisingly enough, the stadiums were seen empty throughout the event.
A similar situation was observed when the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 was held in India. The stadiums were empty and the website of the ticketing agency crashed.
However, Ashish assures that the Formula 1 race will be handled professionally. He added, “You'd never face that kind of problem here. That's really our strength - excellent customer support, a robust system and the focus on technology. If you know that
you are going to get that kind of traffic, you have to learn to manage it.”
The Inaugural Indian Grand Prix is going to be held on October 30, 2011 and the sale of the tickets will start from July. The race was temporarily shifted to December when the World Motor Sport Council squeezed the Bahrain Grand Prix in the 2011 calendar.
This move of shifting the Bahrain Grand Prix would have made the 2011 season go beyond December which was unacceptable for the Formula 1 teams.
Firstly, the organisers of Indian race were happy about the delay, which could have given them more time to establish. However, after heavy criticism from Bahrain Human Rights activists and Formula 1 teams, the Indian Grand Prix was shifted back to October.
The Indian track is being built in New Delhi and is given the official name of Buddh International Circuit. The circuit consists of 16 turns and corners. The track length is more than five kilometres and a total of 60 laps will be contested on it.
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