SEPTEMBER 7, 1998
Another battle in Beirut
IT seems that there are not one but two projects to run a Grand Prix in Beirut in the year 2003.
Another Lebanese businessman Khaled Altaki claims, however, that he has been promoting a Beirut Grand Prix for the last four years on a circuit which would run beside the sea and has asked Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Al-Hariri to adjudicate in the dispute.
Al-Hariri owns one of the countries largest construction companies - called Solidere - and this has the contract to rebuild Beirut city center...