Usually retired GP riders get turns named after them, like Wainey Rainey at Laguna Seca, Alex Criville, Angel Nieto and Sito Pons at Jerez or Wayne Garnder and Mick Doohan at Phillip Island, but MotoGP’s Alvaro Bautista may be getting a whole racing venue named after him.
Bautista’s home town of Talavera de la Reina is planning to build a racing track for cars and motorcycles and even before laying down one stone, they’ve already decided to name it Alavaro Bautista in honour of the 2006 125cc champion.
Apparently the town’s ambitious plans which is backed by the regional government, is to put the center of Spain back on the racing map and substitute the now rarely used, but once famous track of Jarama, with a brand new track with FIM homologation, that will be located between highways A5 and N-502.
