Baku Beyond.

[J.U.]

I enjoyed to watch the race, the track isn´t bad, that´s for sure! However, the lack of atmosphere is typical for Baku. I was there in may this year and almost everything in the city-centre is artificial. I doubt if there will ever be a kind of atmosphere. The facades are perfectly renovated, everything is clean and reminds you of other cities in Europe. It´s kind of soulless. That´s not bad, but it doesn´t fit when you consider that most people in Azerbaijan are still very, very poor (one of the reasons why there aren´t many spectators). I talked to some people and they didn´t care about F1 and/or aren´t able to afford the prices.