Gerd Ennser (62), the new sports president of the organizer ADAC, has a long-term view of the German Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. “We’re not going to earn any money this year,” Ennser told Bild-Zeitung: “We’ll have good years. You have to put up with one or two that are not going well.”
The major event, which attracted 230,133 fans over the entire weekend in 2011, will take place without spectators this time. But it is “extremely important to have the Grand Prix this year,” emphasized Ennser. In motorsport, however, the ADAC must “also keep an eye on economy”.
The fact that, unlike the European Football Championship games in Munich, no visitors are allowed to come is due to “technical reasons. In Munich there are seats that are marked and limited. However, the Sachsenring has no fixed grandstands. It takes at least eight weeks to install them “, says Ennser.
“So we should have started with the construction at the end of April. But at that time nobody knew how the pandemic would develop,” explained Ennser, “we had to make a compromise that we didn’t like, but that would save the Grand Prix.” The contract for the Sachsenring runs until 2026.
Judge Ennser succeeded Hermann Tomczyk (70) in May, who was not allowed to run for a seventh term due to age reasons.
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