Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"F1 is supposed to be motor racing in its purest form"
This was the third Turkish Grand Prix, and at last the penny has dropped with me: stay in Istanbul, by all means, and go to the race, if you wish, but do not - under any circumstances - attempt to do both. Every trip to and from your hotel makes a breeze of tackling the M25 on Friday afternoon.
Istanbul may be an enthralling city, and the Istanbul Park circuit (curiously named, given that it is nowhere near Istanbul) sensational by contemporary standards, but by the time I flew out of Ataturk Airport on Monday morning, I felt the profoundest wish never to visit either again.
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