Scott Mitchell-Malm

I want to see a proper Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Park.

Mega circuit.

It should have a really vibrant atmosphere and it'd be interesting to see what they can pull off.

It just needs time because it occupies a sort of slightly weird place in the F1 spectrum, doesn't it?

As a track everybody remembers, but nobody really knows what a Turkish Grand Prix would be like in modern F1 because even when it did briefly reappear, there were hardly any fans there and it was all a bit short notice.

Yeah.

It's a COVID reunion tour.

It is a little bit, yeah.

Did anyone ask for one of those?

Nürburgring next.

Yeah, I think so.

I was surprised he never had a prominent public-facing F1 role from the start, given his importance within Audi.

He's always been a really good link between the Audi management side and then its race programs or whatever it's looking into from a motorsport side, because he gets Audi and I don't want to sound too covering an old

legend returning to a football club he knows the club kind of thing but he has been there for so long now he's got I wrote a piece on the on the website kind of getting into the gap I think he'll fill really usefully at Audi is he's got the clout within Audi politically because of who he is and what experience he's got and

But he's also just got the knowledge and the insight because he's been involved in some way in this F1 project from the very beginning.

So it's not like he's an alien to it.

He's run the FE team.

He's been there and done it in terms of winning Le Mans three times, the World Endurance Championship, American Le Mans Series champion, etc.

So he should have everything planned.

needed to actually improve the team help the team but also just one of the things Audi's done really badly so far is tell its story and also kind of explain the challenges that it's had and