Hi folks...
We have just had quite a long break, but now we are ready to go again and Spain is the destination this coming weekend for the fourth round of the championship and the first European event of the year.
So far, we have been blessed with a pretty exciting first three grands prix and I’m hopeful we will get more of the same in Barcelona.
Obviously, we have had the situation with the two guys at
Ferrari -
Kimi Raikkonen and
Felipe Massa - battling it out and trying to secure the #1 role while, at
McLaren, they have made real progress.
Fernando Alonso and
Lewis Hamilton are turning out to be a formidable duo.
Then we have had the likes of
Renault falling by the wayside, so it has been pretty interesting to watch. So far so good, but I think everything hinges around everyone wanting to see Lewis win a grand prix very early in his career - and the possibility is there.
The Circuit de Catalunya, as normal, will host the Spanish GP this Sunday, and it is a great circuit, even if it is quite tough in a number of ways. There have been a few revisions there since the last
Formula 1 race in 2006, and it will be interesting to see how that affects proceedings.
Barcelona is probably now the second biggest race on the calendar after Monte Carlo - and I say that from a corporate point of view, because everyone wants to go there. It is packed out.
It was a struggle to get people through the gates several years ago. You would go there before and no-one in Spain was really interested in
F1, it was all rallying and bike racing. F1 really didn’t figure on the radar. But now things have changed. Now that Alonso is doing his stuff, it has really turned the whole thing around. There is a lot of passion in Spain for their double world champion and, believe me, they will show it this weekend.
To date this year, we have had three different winners from the first three races and, while there is a slight chance that might happen again, the probability is more that Alonso will come out top on home turf.
