Behind the scenes at Valencia
AUTOSPORT's group F1 editor Jonathan Noble brings more tales from the paddock after the European Grand Prix weekend
While the Valencia street circuit has very few fans, and its design helped play a part in perhaps the dullest race we will have this season, it is once the track action stops that the current home of the European Grand Prix makes up for itself.
Valencia is an amazing city and, just as it works for Melbourne and Montreal, when the Formula 1 community is packed into a fairly small area then it proves to be hugely social with plenty of get-togethers.
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