The category Tourism Competition 2000 (TC2000) will make history by debuting a new street circuit in the city of Buenos Aires after more than a decade without urban races in the capital.
This is a competition that is part of a broader plan by the Buenos Aires government to promote Drive a car and the southern part of the city.
The competition is scheduled for March 14 and 15, 2026with a route that runs in the southern quarter of the Villa Schlachti district and uses two main streets as an axis and is intended to offer riders a challenge by combining fast sections with technical curves.
The total route will be 2,790 meters long and the route will pass through Avenida Coronel Roca and Escalada and also cross the Municipal Park, with a main straight on Coronel Roca that will have an extension of 720 meters.
In the case of Boxes and paddockswill be installed in the parking lot of the city park and extends over 200 meters. In addition, a large temporary infrastructure will be put in place to ensure the safety of the public and competitors.
Temporary replacement
To achieve this goal, 1,500 retaining walls will be installed along the route and 12 stands will be built to welcome spectators, while a team of 1,800 people will be responsible for the organization and logistics of the event.
What will the route of the new city circuit in Buenos Aires look like?
There will also be 300 chemical toilets, four giant LED screens, 15 ambulances, two field hospitals and a helicopter for emergencies.
The new street circuit occurs simultaneously with the Autodrome of Óscar and Juan Gálvez will be closed for several months over the next year due to a larger size Renovation work.
This is a plan to modernize the circuit to potentially host major international events such as MotoGP and adapt it to the requirements of Formula 1 in the future.
This process is scheduled to begin in early 2026, with a closure of the property to begin large-scale road and infrastructure works, with reopening planned for February 2027 following a multi-million investment..
It is estimated that the work will take around a year, so the circuit will be closed for much of 2026 and the project will require an investment of around 1.5 million euros $150 million, The tender for the pits is already underway.
Bet on the south of the city of Buenos Aires
Although it is not the first time that the Motorsport at the highest level The Argentine runs through the streets of the capital, his return comes after 12 years since the last time in 2013, when the “Ronda de Buenos Aires” took place in the Recoleta and Palermo area through Avenida Del Libertador and Figueroa Alcorta, in front of the Law School and Plaza Francia.
Today the choice of the new Villa Soldieri circuit is seen as a bet on the development of the southern part of the city, having a great economic impact and bringing the passion for motorsport to a sector with great potential.
To carry out all this work, the government led by Jorge Macri has just published Resolution No. 393 in the Official Gazette this Friday, December 12th.
The standard informs them Basics of the city’s tender to build the urban circuit, recalling that the Sports Secretariat, in collaboration with the TC 2000 category, organizes the event “The city is the circuit”, which requires the development of a 2,880-meter circuit through the streets of the southern part of the city.
“It is a big sporting event which will be deployed in the southern area of the CABA, all as part of the promotion of the south of the city as a new sports center and as part of the election of the city of Buenos Aires as the World Sports Capital 2027,” the rule adds.
In this sense, it is declared that the Buenos Aires Sur SA Corporation will be responsible for organizing and regulating the tender, recalling that the company aims “to develop industrial and commercial activities, as well as the use of public services, in order to promote the human, economic and comprehensive urban development of the area called “Southern Development Area of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”.
Important sporting event
Based on this premise An agreement was signed between this company and the Sports Secretariat of Buenos Aires, in which the official body is entrusted with “carrying out the necessary actions to carry out the “TC2000 Street Circuit” works..
The process must ensure the safety and competitive conditions required by international regulations and “in accordance with the Guidelines for the Determination of Construction Works – Buenos Aires Street Circuit prepared for the event scheduled to take place on March 14 and 15, 2026.”
It will be the first time that a competition of this type will be held in the southern part of the city, with a street circuit over several streets, “representing a major sporting event, not only because of the relevance of the category, but also because of the positive impact it will have in the southern part of the city in terms of visibility, urban development and sports promotion.”
To carry out all the work provided for in the agreement, the resolution announced on Friday, December 12, sets a budget of $2,498 million.
In this context The company will outsource assembly of the circuitand organized a tender process to contract the work, but with a smaller budget of $1,736 million and a period of 60 days for execution.
The decision also set the opening date for offers as December 29, 2025, 12:00 p.m. A deadline of two months is set for the completion of the work.
Tour of the street circuit for motorsport at the highest level
The work to be carried out is located in the parking lot of the city park and on Av. Escalada and Coronel Roca.
The subject of the tender is the provision of materials, skilled workers and the technical management of the work as well as the completion with an asphalt layer
The work is being carried out to trace the circular route, which makes its journey clockwise on Av. begins. Coronel Roca, in front of Parque Roca Sector C, after turning onto the boulevard in front of the YPF gas station, take Av. Escalada against the usual traffic.
Then you get to the parking lot of the city park, where the Race track streeta road to exit the pit lane and the pit area itself.
The tour then continues through the inner streets of the city park to finally reach Av. to return. Coronel Roca and start the tour again.
The assignment also includes the execution of the implementation project, the calculation and engineering of details of the preliminary project documentation, which is part of these tender documents, in order to meet the purpose of the work.
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