While the roaddipsintovalleys and the occasionalmarket town, for the most part it snakes its way over mountain passes andthrough barely inhabitedareasofstunninglandscape.
Of the five teams running in Portugal, only Toyota installed Kers over the first two days - although even the company whose Prius car leads the road-car market place in "hybrid" cars employing similar systems cannot guarantee they will run it in the season opener in Australia on 29 March.
It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.