As if to emphasise the scale and enormity of the proposition at hand, it was 2017 and the inaugural year of Liberty Media’s game-changing takeover of Formula 1 when conversations first took place with stakeholders in Madrid about hosting a grand prix.
Following the American train of thought with a modern-day city-centre circuit and extravaganza, could the Spanish capital go where no Western European capital had gone before? Nine years on, the end-product will be showcased to the world this weekend. Forty-five years after
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