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paddock here at the sale International Circuit, where the sun has, thank goodness, finally set

and the plus 40 degrees that we've been experiencing this afternoon, is now a cool 30s

degrees or so and I'm thrilled to be joined by two big names of the F1 paddock from

racer and from Sirius Exermix, Chris Medland and F1 TV's Will Bucks and we've managed

to get hold, not actually got hold of wistiting on it, a sofa, which I have to say is rather

lovely to take in the atmosphere of this new paddock, what are we making of it guys, a

whole refresh rebrand. It's pretty damn different from last time, isn't it? I mean, it's completely

different. The time we were here two years ago looked nothing like this and yeah, the lights

are on, it's beautiful. People are at home. Yeah, like every team's got this huge screen above

each of their individual hospitality units that put out a load of branding. It's a very

cool place to be actually. It reminds me of a rather large shopping centre in London. What

they've done to this is astonishing, the circuit, they've resurfaced the circuit completely.

But everything surrounding the circuit, they demolished seven months ago and have rebuilt

literally everything, the medical centre, the media centre, the paddock, the paddock club,

the team buildings, everything that folks around the world will see at the track this weekend

is new and has been built in seven months. What they've done is, which frankly is

astonishing and it's all this beautiful kind of light stone. It does feel like we're in the midst

of an enormous shopping centre because you've got the light panels above each of the teams

showing that here you can buy your Pirelli tyres or purchase your landonaurus or whatever it

will be. Whatever you want to take home with you and they've got a barbecue going on of sorts

up and down the paddock at the moment. So people are being treated to a bit of

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