Inside abandoned F1 track that was £300m ‘spectacular flop’ with only four races

COSTING £300million and designed to bring Formula 1 to a whole new audience, this 120,000 capacity race track was not short on ambition.

But after just four Grand Prix it was abandoned with rubbish left to rot in the bins and the whole thing declared a ‘spectacular flop’.

The track was built in South Korea and made its debut 13 years ago.

Back in 2010 the first ever Korean Grand Prix was held in Yeongam in the hopes of increasing the profile of F1 in Asia.

1,000 acres of rice paddies were torn up to make way for a new 120,000 person capacity Formula One venue.