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That Time When: Spain Hosted Two F1 Races

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4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We take a short view back to the past as 'That Time When' returns! It's all about when Spain hosted two F1 races thanks to the success of Fernando Alonso, but if you thought Catalunya was a dull track, the Valencia street circuit was on a whole new level.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to the WTF1 podcast that time when edition. Now it feels

0:11.5

weird to be doing an intro like that and not have a video. This is just for audio so welcome

0:17.5

everybody. I am welcoming my voice to your ears. We are here with that time when and of course

0:23.7

alongside me you heard his little aww. It's the founder Tom Bellingham and new father. He's

0:30.0

still a new father. It's still new to me. I'm just going to keep announcing it. How are

0:34.4

you my friend? The father. I'm good. Thanks. Yeah. Looking forward to reminiscing about my

0:40.5

childhood maybe there's going to be there's going to be some people that weren't even, well

0:44.7

no, they would be born when this race was on. I hope they weren't. And no, Tom is childhood

0:49.1

wasn't 2015 just so you're aware. I know he's got a baby face. But you are how old, Tom?

0:54.8

33. What a joke. What a joke. You've paused time. Anyway, let's talk about, well let's talk

1:03.4

about Spain and the history as we are coming up to race week. We are in race week. Wait,

1:09.4

I think it's in the race week. It's difficult to say quickly for the Spanish Grand Prix. So we thought

1:14.6

we'd look back over some time where the Spanish Grand Prix basically got popular. And I know

1:21.2

that's weird to say for Formula One fans that absolutely despise the Catalonia circuit. But

1:27.2

imagine such a thing. So popular. It hosted two races and people actually cared that much.

1:34.6

I know. Yes. So it hosted two races. Spain hosted two races, both of which were

1:40.7

the... Imagine the outrage. Not well. Yeah, it is kind of outraged. I know they're now three,

1:47.5

but even when there were two people were like, why are there two races in America at the outrage

1:50.8

of that? Imagine now of all the races Spain being obviously. It's a great country with some

1:58.0

multiple heritage now. But yes, not exactly the most popular people don't look forward to

2:06.9

Spanish Grand Prix. Do they? They don't set their calendars for that race. No, they don't. You just

2:12.8

look on social media. And all you have to do is change one corner and all of a sudden it becomes

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