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Valencia Street Circuit

The Spaniard faces the European Grand Prix with options to overcome. Remember the last Grand Prix in Valencia with bad taste in the mouth. Clayton Morris pursues this goal as well. He believes that improvement in the last two races places them among the best. The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) has declared four days before the start the European Grand Prix, at the Valencia Street Circuit, that his team has already clearly demonstrated in the last two races that has the potential to win. In a few days starts the weekend of the Grand Prix of Europe, the second race of the season which takes place in Spain. It is a very important appointment for the Scuderia Ferrari and me. It will be a new opportunity to run in front of my audience, writes Alonso in his journal on the website of the Italian team. The truth is that I haven’t been very lucky the times that this test was played at the Valencia Street Circuit, especially last year, when, despite having a very competitive car, I ended up in eighth place.

Everyone remembers of what What happened when the safety car came out, but already not worth the return to the matter, recalled Alonso. Last year, the Spanish champion was Valencia with an eighth position after a controversial departure from the safety car which gave to the fret with the work of Alonso and benefited the British Lewis Hamilton (McLaren). The exit of the safety car at Valencia, motivated by an accident at the Australian Mark Webber (Red Bull), resulted in a series of nonsense that directly influenced the performance of Alonso, who happened to be in the middle of traffic on a circuit with little chance to advance of his struggle with Hamilton for second place. I’ve always thought that bad luck and good luck are compensated at the end of the season, and perhaps this unwritten law serves also for racing.

National Institute of Statistics

According to the latest data from the National Institute of statistics, free housing fell by 4.1% in the first quarter of this year. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, the price drops 3.5%. The prices of the flats began to fall in the second quarter of 2008. Free housing prices fell by 4.1% in the first quarter compared to the same period of 2010, more than two points lower than the rate recorded in the previous quarter (- 1.9%), according to the price index of housing (IPV) the Institute Nacional de Estadistica (INE). In this way, are already twelve consecutive quarters in which housing prices have negative annual rates. The housing prices began to fall in the second quarter of 2008 (- 0.3%) and bottomed out in the second quarter of 2009, when fell by 7.7%, to start the path of moderation. Thus, the annual reduction of prices during the first quarter of the year occurs after registering a negative variation throughout the past year, with falls that ranged from 2.9% in the first quarter and 1.9% in the fourth.

On quarter (Q1 on Q4), free house prices fell 3.5%, against the decrease of 0.1% experienced between October and December. Housing type, the price of new housing declined in the first quarter a 1.9% annual rate, two-tenths more over that recorded in the previous quarter (- 2.1%). Used housing experienced an annual reduction of 6.3%, representing a decrease of almost five points from the fourth quarter of the previous year, when fell 1.6%. All the autonomous communities declined in annual rate, housing prices in the first quarter. In particular, larger interannual falling prices them scored are La Rioja (- 7.8%), Navarre (- 6.4%), Aragon (- 6.2%), Cantabria (- 6.1%) and Catalonia (- 5.5%), while minor descents corresponded to Galicia and Murcia (- 2.4%), Asturias (- 2.6%) (-3%).