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Cómo conseguir que los pilotos vuelvan a ser el centro de las carreras de F1

16 October 2026 at 21:01

Cómo conseguir que los pilotos vuelvan a ser el centro de las carreras de  F1

El GP de Singapur volvió a dejar esa sensación de haber visto demasiado antes de llegar al domingo: un viernes que anticipa las fuerzas de la clasificación y un sábado que enseña buena parte de lo que después será la carrera. Lo analiza el Podcast Técnica Fórmula 1

Se acabaron los fines de semana con carrera sprint de esta temporada de F1 y cuesta disimular el alivio. El GP de Singapur volvió a dejar esa sensación de haber visto demasiado antes de llegar al domingo: un viernes que anticipa las fuerzas de la clasificación y un sábado que enseña buena parte de lo que después será la carrera. Más sesiones competitivas no están garantizando más incertidumbre. El segundo episodio del Podcast Técnica Fórmula 1 aborda esa discusión: cómo recuperar incertidumbre y dejar que los pilotos vuelvan a ocupar el centro de la carrera.

Nos gusta la Fórmula 1

Precisamente por eso resulta deprimente verla reducir el suspense mientras multiplica los procedimientos, los controles y las explicaciones que el espectador necesita para entender qué está pasando. Marina Bay añadió otro ingrediente al malestar: los incidentes con el manejo de los controles durante la clasificación sprint y su repercusión en el resultado de algunos participantes.

Después del retraso por el fallo de software de Sepang, la categoría volvió a quedar atrapada en una discusión tecnológica cuando debería estar hablando de pilotaje y competición.

El sábado enseña demasiadas cartas

Una carrera corta puede tener sentido si aporta una situación distinta, una lucha propia o un resultado que merezca la pena por sí mismo. El problema aparece cuando funciona principalmente como una demostración anticipada del domingo.

En Singapur, donde adelantar sigue siendo complicado y la posición en pista pesa tanto, esa limitación resulta especialmente visible. Los pilotos tienen que valorar el riesgo de atacar entre muros, el coste de un daño y la recompensa disponible. No basta con acortar la distancia para que todos decidan asumir más peligro.

Mientras tanto, el aficionado obtiene información que antes se iba descubriendo durante la carrera principal. Se aclaran ritmos, fortalezas y debilidades. El domingo puede confirmar lo que ya se ha visto, con menos espacio para la sorpresa. Esto no significa que todos los fines de semana sprint sean idénticos ni que la carrera larga carezca de interés. Significa que conviene evaluar el formato por lo que añade a la competición, además de por las horas de emisión que genera.

Cuando los controles también deciden

El episodio de la clasificación sprint exige distinguir responsabilidades. Un error humano al manejar un control y un fallo de software no son la misma cosa. Tampoco podemos adjudicar a una única causa todos los incidentes tecnológicos de esta temporada.

Pero el problema deportivo permanece: el funcionamiento de esos sistemas está teniendo un peso demasiado visible en lo que ocurre en pista. El aficionado acaba preguntándose si una diferencia viene del coche, del piloto, de una elección de energía o de una operación que no se ha ejecutado correctamente.

La tecnología siempre ha formado parte de la Fórmula 1. Lo preocupante es que ahora su complejidad termina dificultando la comprensión de la competición y convirtiendo algunos momentos decisivos en una discusión sobre procedimientos.

La FIA tiene una responsabilidad directa en la claridad de las reglas y en su aplicación. Los equipos y los pilotos tienen la suya en el manejo de los coches. Explicar dónde empieza y termina cada una sería un primer paso para recuperar confianza.

Ni las neutralizaciones rescataron la incertidumbre

La carrera del domingo también dejó ejemplos de lo mucho que pesa el contexto. El coche de seguridad virtual provocado por la parada de Gabriel Bortoleto no le dio vidilla a la prueba. El abandono de Franco Colapinto tampoco necesitó una neutralización que alterara el orden.

Más adelante, el incidente de Lance Stroll sí abrió otra ventana estratégica y perjudicó a Russell. Hamilton decidió mantenerse en pista, por su cuenta, y el desenlace de Ferrari acabó siendo muy diferente para sus dos pilotos.

Son decisiones que merecen análisis (en el Podcast lo tienen), pero una carrera no debería depender de que aparezca una neutralización en el momento adecuado para ofrecer una pelea que por sus propios medios cuesta construir. La parte final nos permitió despertar para ver el adelantamiento de Antonelli a Norris y... poco más, nada que permitiera cambiar un guion bastante aburrido.

Hay cosas que todavía funcionan

Sería injusto borrar el trabajo de Verstappen, la velocidad de Leclerc o la regularidad de Antonelli. Singapur tuvo actuaciones de mucho valor, eso no se puede negar. También confirmó que el rendimiento entre equipos puede moverse y que Red Bull está aprovechando mejor esta fase del año.

Precisamente esas fortalezas deberían ayudar a revisar lo que está fallando: el formato sprint merece una evaluación deportiva, la reglamentación necesita sistemas fiables y comprensibles y la comunicación debe permitir que el público siga la carrera sin reconstruir después lo que ha sucedido. Hay margen para mejorar en 2027. Pero la primera condición es reconocer los problemas de esta temporada y trabajar sobre ellos.

Denmark asks EU to ‘examine’ Spain’s plan to legalize migrants

16 October 2026 at 19:01

The fact that Spain is swimming against the tide on European immigration issues became more evident than ever on Friday, when several EU leaders led by the prime ministers of Denmark and Italy — Mette Frederiksen and Giorgia Meloni — strongly criticized the Spanish government’s decision earlier this year to grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants.

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Danish PM Mette Frederiksen and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in Brussels.

Endangered heritage: Why Spanish palaces are collapsing

16 October 2026 at 15:24

On September 1, the small town of Almazán, in Spain’s Soria province, found itself robbed of a large portion of its heritage. A section of the palace of the Hurtado de Mendoza family collapsed. Twenty days later a further section fell into ruin, prompting an emergency intervention. The disintegration of part of the façade, the gallery and the roof has affected the interior of the 15th-century Gothic building in which the Catholic Monarchs once temporarily took up residence. It is not the only palace that has crumbled. Its decline flags up an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in Spain.

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The façade of the Villagómez palace, in Villagómez La Nueva in Valladolid.Palace of the Condestables, Casalarreina in La Rioja. The Villagómez coat of arms, one of the last elements that have been preserved in Villagómez la Nueva in Valladolid.Drawing of the Palace of Valsaín.

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The Hurtado de Mendoza Palace in Soria, after the collapse it suffered on September 21.

Paula Colubi confiesa que estaba "harta" de Nico y se sincera sobre su acercamiento con Nacho: "No podía verlo así"

16 October 2026 at 16:52

En el ecuador de la emisión de La isla de las tentaciones 11, Paula Colubi ha sido una de las invitadas de El debate de las tentaciones. La tentadora VIP se ha sincerado sobre su paso por el reality, en el que comenzó acercándose a Kico, pero ha terminado siendo uno de los mayores apoyos de Nacho.

"Lo veía sufrir tanto, pero tanto, que me rompía yo por dentro con él. No podía verlo así", ha asegurado Paula, que aunque al principio prefirió no acercarse al novio de Náyades por haber tenido algo fuera previamente, ha terminado viviendo su experiencia en Villa playa junto a él.

Al que empezó tentando fue a Kico, sobre el que ha hablado sin ningún tipo de filtro. "Yo de Kico ya estaba harta. Me trató fatal. Me tuvo dos días llorando. Decía que había pasado sus límites, pero él no tiene claro ni sus límites", ha asegurado la tentadora.

Sobre su relación con Nacho antes de su paso por La isla de las tentaciones, Paula ha aclarado que nunca llegaron a ser novios, pero estuvieron de idas y venidas durante cuatro meses.

"En los momentos en los que no estábamos yo me liaba con chicos. Pero es que él también se liaba con chicas", ha asegurado Paula, motivo por el que no comprende que tanto Náyades como Nacho aseguraran en el reality que ella le llegó a hacer mucho daño.

"Yo a Nacho le hice daño, pero él a mí también. Él dice que le he hecho daño porque me he liado con otros, pero es que él también se ha liado con otras, estamos en la misma posición", ha aclarado Paula.

Colombia’s left flexes its muscles in first street protests against De la Espriella

15 October 2026 at 13:29
Protest against the government of Abelardo de la Espriella in Bolívar Square, Bogotá, on Wednesday.

Colombia’s left took to the streets on Wednesday against President Abelardo de la Espriella and fared better than expected. Despite doubts about its ability to mobilize people, fears of police repression stoked by the president himself, the threat of rain and the fact that the protest fell on a weekday, thousands of Colombians demonstrated peacefully for hours. The marches, seen in the country’s main cities, were the first test of the ability of a battered left to mobilize the grassroots after losing power to a right-wing outsider allied openly with the United States and who embodies everything that progressives abhor.

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Protesters in Bogotá on October 14,2026.Former president of Colombia Gustavo Petro (center) at the protest against the government of Abelardo de la Espriella in  Bogotá on October 14.

Pressure mounts on Maduro’s inner circle after Álex Saab ally is turned over to the US

13 October 2026 at 12:34

The government of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez has handed Álvaro Pulido — Álex Saab’s Colombian-born associate who had been held in Caracas since 2023 — over to the United States. The transfer was announced Sunday on X by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, while the Venezuelan government has remained silent on the case.

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Mugshot of Álvaro Pulido.

Students recruited via Telegram, amateur saboteurs and hitmen: How Russia outsources its operations in Europe

11 October 2026 at 05:00

On the night of March 20, 2024, unusually humid and mild in London, three people in their twenties pulled up at an industrial estate in the east of the city in a cherry-red Kia Picanto. They went inside, set fire to a warehouse, and filmed the blaze on a cellphone. The video of the flames consuming the premises ended up in the hands of another 20-year-old, Dylan Earl, who was reached via the Telegram messaging app by the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner, linked to the Kremlin, which had in turn recruited others to do the dirty work. One of the burned units contained humanitarian aid and Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine. According to the British investigation, the three young men who lit the fuse did not know they were actually working for Russia.

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German police on August 5 after the failed attack on Leipzig airport.

The story of a divided Brazil, as told from a Copacabana apartment building

9 October 2026 at 17:46
Portrait of Ângela Valério on the rooftop terrace of her building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ten years ago, a 92-foot banner hung from the rooftop of an Art Deco building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro’s iconic beachfront neighborhood. “Fora Cunha” (“Cunha Out”), it read in white letters against a black background.

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Ângela Valério walks alone down the hallway of the building where she lives, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.At the center, the façade of the building where Ângela Valério lives, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock muse whose career spanned nearly eight decades

7 October 2026 at 10:29

Eva Marie Saint, one of the last great actresses from Alfred Hitchcock’s universe, died on Tuesday, October 6 at her home in Los Angeles, family representatives said. She was 102.

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Eva Marie Saint with Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest', directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Kaliningrad, the Russian militarized exclave surrounded by NATO that triggered Putin’s nuclear threat

Aerial view of Königsberg cathedral in Kaliningrad, 2023.

Kaliningrad, the militarized Russian exclave wedged between NATO and EU members Poland and Lithuania and a constant flashpoint between the Kremlin and the Atlantic Alliance, has become the center of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threat against Europeans. Last week Moscow accused NATO of seeking to block Kaliningrad and threatened to use nuclear weapons if the military organization moves forward with that alleged plan. For the Kremlin, the exclave, which gives it a strategic outlet to the Baltic Sea (it is the only port it can use year-round) and is a key node in its hybrid war against Europe, is an advanced bastion. For NATO, it is a piece on the board that shapes any crisis in the Baltic because it could hinder allied military movements.

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Europe fortifies itself against Russia’s hybrid war

3 October 2026 at 05:00

Russia is stepping up its hybrid war against Europe. From sabotage, drone incursions, and arson to plots (mostly foiled) to assassinate pro‑Ukraine activists and Russian dissidents on European soil, the Kremlin is testing the allied response, and incidents against NATO’s European partners are becoming more serious, such as the explosive‑laden drones found this summer at Leipzig Airport in Germany. That gray line between a hybrid attack and a conventional one is blurring, and several European intelligence sources warn of the risk that one of those incidents could escalate — either by a deliberate Kremlin decision or a miscalculation.

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Rescue teams carry the body of a woman killed in a Russian attack on a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, last Saturday.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Tom Cruise loved this film because it freed him from the handsome, strong man that he is’

2 October 2026 at 09:45

Digger is like a mango. It’s an acidic film, but also a bit sweet; outwardly it seems one thing but inside it contains surprises, and it needs time to ripen. Like a mango, its flavor can’t be explained. In fact, it’s better not to even try, says its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu: “The only way to know what a mango tastes like is to put it in your mouth. And you have to put this film in your eyes to understand it, because if I explain it to you, you won’t get it.”

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Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and actor Tom Cruise at the premiere of 'Digger' in Mexico City on September 25.

Johnny Cross, ‘the vegan butcher’: ‘I’ve been in the world 34 years and I’ve never eaten meat or fish, and I’m alive, I’m healthy’

29 September 2026 at 15:04
Johnny Cross at his home in Seville.

In another life, Johnny Cross (Clovenfords, Scotland, 34) might have become a sports journalist covering British football teams, but an Erasmus year in Seville during his final year of university changed everything. There he met Marta, his partner, with whom he now has two children, and he decided to stay in Spain. He also realized sports journalism wasn’t for him, so he began teaching English to make some money — “very typical of the guiris [a Spanish term for British people] here,” he says with a laugh.

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Johnny Cross is known on social media as The Vegan Guiri or “the vegan butcher,” the title of the cookbook he published in 2025.

Kast faces internal resistance for having added Chile to Trump’s Shield of the Americas

29 September 2026 at 14:46

One week after Chile joined the Shield of the Americas, the regional alliance promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump, domestic resistance against the move has not let up. On the contrary, the membership documents ratified by the government of José Antonio Kast in New York on September 22, along with 14 other countries, have raised new questions about the scope of the initiative.

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José Antonio Kast and Francisco Pérez Mackenna in a Shield of the Americas meeting in New York on September 22.

Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn’t it causing a scandal in the United States?

29 September 2026 at 10:57

All three are well-known, globally recognized, and outstanding women in their fields. All three became mothers just days ago, almost simultaneously. All three had children without giving birth to them: one adopted, two used a surrogate. And all three, despite their different methods and the ways they told their stories, received the same warm congratulations. But are the three cases the same? In the United States, for a large majority, the answer is yes.

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Khloé Kardashian with her son, born via surrogacy, in a moment from the reality series 'The Kardashians,' in 2022.

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Lady Gaga (left) and Lena Dunham.

Madonna and Taylor Swift, queens of an MTV VMA ceremony steeped in nostalgia for Dolly Parton, Nirvana and George Michael

28 September 2026 at 07:39

It has been 42 years since MTV began honoring what it knows best and what, at the time, few people valued: music videos. Four decades have passed and much has changed in the industry. There is no self-respecting artist today who does not present their projects visually, especially in this internet era. A lot has changed since 1984, but only to grow bigger. On Sunday night, artists once again proved it.

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Taylor Swift accepts the award for video of the year for 'The Fate of Ophelia' at the MTV Video Music Awards held on September 27, 2026 in Los Angeles.

Fuad Gaši, coordinator of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: ‘We have more than 1.4 million samples and the door is only opened three times a year’

27 September 2026 at 05:00

It has been referred to as the “Doomsday Vault” or the “End of the World Vault.” But Fuad Gaši, who has been in charge of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s coordination since June of this year, prefers to speak about this seed bank in a somewhat more poetic and hopeful way. He sees the institution — which is located in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — as a repository of knowledge that ensures the biodiversity of our planet’s crops.

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Fuad Gaši, pictured last week during his visit to the ftalks Food Summit in Valencia, Spain. 

‘Forgotten Island’ turns children’s animation into a song to friendship and roots: ‘Diversity makes us stronger’

25 September 2026 at 18:13

There is nothing a good plate of lechón (piglet) can’t achieve. So can a story that has been in the works for a decade and speaks of friendship, migration, change, roots and food (yes, lechón too), one that is animated and aimed primarily at children, yet carries a message not only for kids. It was over dishes like that and other traditional Filipino foods that Forgotten Island was cooked up for years. Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, who are friends, colleagues and something like compatriots, have been passionately shaping the story all these years, and finally on September 25, 2026, it is opening in movie theaters worldwide.

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Jo and Raissa, the lead characters in 'Forgotten Island' (DreamWorks, 2026), directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado.

Darth Vader alongside Picasso and Banksy: George Lucas’s ambitious museum opens in LA

22 September 2026 at 16:03

Explaining the world through images. Humanity has been doing it for millennia: from cave paintings to photography, cinema, living-room television and the omnipresent screens of today. Over the past decades, if there is anyone who has known how to create emotion through images, that is George Lucas, 82, director, writer, producer and the creative mind behind phenomena that have shaped contemporary culture, such as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. And his eye for visual narratives has not been limited to film: for decades (funded by the lucrative returns of cinema), he has also devoted himself to art collecting, and possesses an immense collection of roughly 40,000 works that he has now decided to share with the world.

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A drone view of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at Exposition Park in L.A.

Luis Planas es ya el ministro de Agricultura que más tiempo ha ocupado el cargo en democracia

16 September 2026 at 12:58
El valenciano Luis Planas Puchades, exinspector de Trabajo, exembajador de España ante Marruecos y ante la Unión Europea y uno de los posibles aspirantes a dirigir la Organización para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) a partir de 2027, se ha convertido este miércoles en el ministro de Agricultura más longevo en democracia, tras superar los 3.023 días que ocupó la misma plaza el socialista Carlos Romero entre 1982 y 1991.

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