Sitges was to be the location of the first attempt in Spain to build a permanent circuit. The one and a quarter-mile high-banked but irregular oval at Sitges-Terramar. This was promoted by the local racing hero of the era Frick Armangue. It took 10 months Unfortunately the funding of the construction proved to be its downfall and the circuit, with its curious dog-leg coming off the banking at one end, was closed soon afterwards although it is still there today, cracked and overgrown.

With the demise of Sitges-Terramar, racing in Catalonia lapsed while the Basque city of San Sebastian became the home of the Spanish Grand Prix.

It was not until the early 1930s that there was racing again near Barcelona with a track laid out through Montjuich Park, which overlooks the city. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 ended the racing and it was not until 1946 that another race Three years later Pedralbes hosted another Grand Prix race but the Le Mans disaster of 1955 meant stricter safety rules and Pedralbes faded into history.

It was not until 1966 that the Catalans revived the old Montjuich Park circuit, as a response to the construction of the Jarama circuit near Madrid. Montjuich held a Formula 2 GP that year - won by Jack Brabham. The event was repeated the following year w The alternation continued until the ill-fated Spanish GP of 1975. Safety had become much more of an issue in F1 and there were disruptions in practice while the F1 circus went around the track and fixed the BARriers, which had been only loosely constructe The accident marked the end of the road for Montjuich Park and it was not until October 1986 that the Catalan parliament voted to create an organization to build an international standard racing circuit in the Barcelona area. Fourteen months later the Roy The race was a big success and in the years that followed Barcelona has become the most important F1 testing facility and the undisputed home of the Spanish GP.