Scott Mitchell-Malm

Exactly.

It's got to be that.

This has been something that Istanbul had worked towards for a really long time and definitely from the circuit side, the promoter side.

they did not think that it was a stopgap in terms of the COVID.

It was an opportunity.

It basically got them in the shop window, and then they were really hoping it would translate into a kind of full-time slot on the calendar permanent return.

It didn't quite happen, but it's impressive that they've worked away at it in the background because I think there have been murmurs here and there, but it hasn't been something like...

You know, it's not been one where they've made, you know, a really big thing of it and then it's just taken ages because it hasn't amounted to anything.

So, for example, I think we will get a Thai Grand Prix sooner or later.

But that, you know, delegation visits and big official statements in government and stuff like that.

And then it's like radio silence for a really long time.

Actually, what's gone on with the Turkish race is...

that they've just kind of got on with getting it done and now it's announced and it's official.

So I hope that a long-term deal does genuinely mean a really good opportunity to build it back up again because I was there in 21, if that was the second of the two, wasn't it?

And Ed, we were both there for that, weren't we?

We weren't alternating COVID races by that point.

Can you remember what the support races were at that event?

I have a memory of it being like Renault Clios or something as one support and Caterhams in the other support or something like that.

It felt very much like the cars that you have at the circuit that you do your

your track day stuff in it felt a little bit like that and it was like i'm glad you put something together but this is um you know i love this sort of stuff but at the same time it's like this isn't really befitting of a formula one grand prix as a support race so yeah with a bit of time nice advanced planning and then some momentum over the few years i'll be i want to see that event in its pomp you know i i saw it a very you know it was great to go there and it was great to actually see it happen when it did it was opportunistic but