iWitness in Spain: Thursday

Posted on Thursday 07 May 2009 and tagged with iwitness, barcelona, spain.

Nico Rosberg took his first victory of the year on Tuesday, when he won a poker tournament in Aosta, northern Italy. He beat F1 stars Michael Schumacher, Giancarlo Fisichella, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Eddie Irvine to the 25,000 euros first prize, which he has donated to charity. A good omen for the Spanish Grand Prix?

This being the first European race of the season, the team motorhomes are back. Ferrari have a new multi-storey block of flats on show and McLaren have revamped the inside of their Comms centre, but AT&T Williams have taken a more conservative (more British? Ed) approach: we have the same motorhome as last year, albeit with a new floor.

Of all the unlikely things. The Circuit de Catalunya, in the heart of Fernando Alonso’s homeland, is to honour Lewis Hamilton this weekend by unveiling a statue of the 2008 World Champion. No hard feelings about 2007, then…