Diego Mejia

Yeah, thanks for the invite, Ed and Jan.

It's great to be with you guys again.

Yeah, as you will say, I live in Madrid.

I've been based here for a few years, so I came for the first time to IFEMA, this expo place when they brought the F1X position that's going around the world.

That's the first thing that they did here way before there was...

serious talk about having a Grand Prix here.

And it's been like 74 weeks, like less than 600 days since the first stone was placed until the Grand Prix day, basically.

So it's a very short time frame.

It has gone by very quickly.

They've had many challenges, especially the weather.

There's been a lot of rainfall recently.

in the early part of the year, at the end of last year as well, and that has put back a lot of the work, especially on the racetrack.

And as you could see, there's still plenty of work to be done around the track, but it looks now like a racetrack.

Yeah, it's like the expo place where Formula E races in London, basically.

It's the same kind of place.

It has been having its expositions and all its usual events while the circuit has been constructed, and that has been one of the main challenges for them to...

be building everything for the track and still having the normal activity because this is state-owned so it has to keep going and yeah it's been a challenge to get all the work to the exact deadlines having all these events around for the whole year so I think I first heard about IFEMA I've been living in Madrid for nine years and I first heard of it

because there was some talk about a Formula E race way long time ago here.

It never happened.

But I think there has been talk about this Grand Prix here since 2019.