Madrid’s 10-year tenure of the Spanish Grand Prix, taking over the moniker from the now biennial Barcelona race, is Formula 1’s latest effort to bring its series to urban population centres.
It does so for 57 laps on a two-headed monster of a circuit that will take drivers and teams some time to wrap their collective engineering minds around.
Initial concept renderings of the so-called Madring drew mixed reactions with fears the Spanish GP’s move from Barcelona’s permanent circuit to the Valdebebas area near Madrid’s main airport would see F1 add another generic street circuit, a concrete jungle that would soon
