Diego Mejia

where the fan zone is going to be so it's the highest elevation place I think of the whole track and yeah it's I think it goes up like at eight percent from from the roundabout all the way up to turn eight and then it goes down at five percent which is not a lot but it

It gets a feel and it continues to go down after that before it starts going uphill again at La Monumental.

So, yeah, that's also a nice place.

And I'm curious to see how the sort of chicanes on the roundabouts are going to be set up, because that's going to dictate a lot of how strong the braking will be for those corners and how much of an opportunity to overtake will they be.

Although we don't need exactly very hard overtaking places with this generation of cars to have overtaking.

Yeah, I guess some people might think, okay, here we go, another street track after Miami, after Vegas, but this is nowhere near that.

It's a completely different concept.

I think Carlos has described it as a hybrid track, and it is effectively because of what John has mentioned, but...

Yeah, you probably have one or two corners dictated by the neighborhood, Valdebebas, which is the neighborhood right beside IFEMA.

But yeah, there are two corners, 90 degrees, that are inside IFEMA.

And then you have turns one and two, which is Chicane.

But the rest, it's been created with some freedom towards trying to make a...

A different track, an interesting track, and one that provides overtaking opportunities and different challenges for the drivers.

No, I think, I mean, many races you go to, you arrive at the airport, you get a feel of the city and some places you don't feel like F1 is happening.

Some places maybe used to be like that, but with the years they've grown and F1 is just part of the offer for people visiting the city.

I think at least at the beginning, it's a huge deal.

The local government is heavily invested into this Grand Prix taking place.

And yeah, it's something very, very important.

And there's this rivalry from many years in Spain between Barcelona and Madrid.

In Barcelona, for many years, I mean, 10 or 20 years ago, people would say it's the best city in Spain.