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Matt Warwick - BBC Sport Senior Journalist in Madrid
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'It started as a joke, a fantasy' - F1 heads to football-obsessed Madrid
After F1’s explosion in popularity away from its European heartland the sport is coming home. Why Madrid? Because it is beautiful… and has a very big expo centre on the outskirts.
You could never accuse Formula 1 of shirking a challenge.
Who else would consider competing for the attention of a football-obsessed country, home to the World Cup winners, in a city where a constan… [+8149 chars]
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