Aragón is first of all a nothing, but a big nothing.
I had the chance to inaugurate this circuit during the first event that was run there, the Renault World Series (which sent a bunch of drivers to F1…) I was following the thing for Eurosport, it was in 2009.
It's simple, in this corner there's... nothing...
Except the tar and the pits. The circuit is so lost that we spotted it from the road because there were still gigantic bulldozers working on the construction…
Not a stand, Coluche would have said “not a harbor, not a millstone”, the lost corner in the middle of nowhere.
It's simple, the province of Aragón has three important cities, Zaragoza (it's far), Huesca (it's very far) and Teruel, it's even further.
Aragón is far, but very far.
To get to this circuit, you have to leave Barcelona by the highway to Tarragona (100 km) and then it's like the Tour de Corsica, for 153 kilometers, a mountain of incredible beauty, a brilliant road for the guy who drove (the others just have to refrain from making raoul) and then we said to ourselves that there wouldn't be a peking on the day of the race.
Aragón is a miracle, a big miracle…
Because on Sunday, the spectators were there by the thousands, by the tens of thousands...
This is the miracle of these desert oasis towns on market days, we see a crazy world appear without really understanding where they came from or how...
In 2018, the Aragón GP had 114 entries…
It's certain, as spectators we're not at the French GP or in Thailand, but it's still magical in the middle of nothing.
Aragón is a story, a dirty story.
And it stinks. Because of Fernando (not that of Abba, that of Isabella of Castile, Ferdinand in French) who just reinforced the Inquisition in Spain (1481) Inquisition which is one of the biggest bastards of humanity. Then he massacred the Sephardim, those who did not want to convert and then those who had converted... Huge error, Spain lost its doctors, its astronomers, its cartographers, its scientists... The same year, 1492, he sends Columbus away on three rotten caravels to dispossess him of all his possessions on his return from Central America.
Well, Fernando and Isabelle, it's old, it's unbearable, in our house there have also been some pretty filthy things, so no morals, just a reminder.
Aragon is a poet, an immense poet…
Set to music by Jean Ferrat, Léo Ferré, Brassens…
I know, these artists sometimes had strong convictions, but they themselves did not kill anyone, on the contrary, how many couples were formed on “Woman is the future of man”?
Aragon is finally a song, a phenomenon… (be careful, for very initiated people only) by Bobby Lapointe.
Finally, for a deserted place, it inspires things… Aragon…
Aragón is a medieval village. At the foot of the circuit. Nights as sweet as honey, three guitar notes floating in the sloping streets... After the sound and fury of the circuit, Alcañiz is magical...
Aragón is a treasure…
