"I linked myself with this challenge because I saw a team that could make a step forward," Liuzzi said of Hispania.
Now, the country has three full-time drivers — one of whom is a double world champion — a test driver, two Grand Prix races and even its own Formula One team, which goes by the name of Hispania.
The story is inspired by the historical eighth-century Rodrigo, the last Visigothic king of Hispania.
The new system is also designed to encourage several teams, especially the three new ones: Virgin, Lotus and Hispania.
The Phoenicians were no more successful, although they bequeathed a memorable nickname to posterity: I-shepan-ha, "land of hyraxes" (more familiar as Hispania).
When the Romans took the peninsula from the Carthaginians (206 bce), they divided it into two provinces: Hispania Ulterior (present Andalusia, Extremadura, southern León, and most of modern Portugal) and Hispania Citerior, or Tarraconensis (all of what is now northern, eastern, and south-central Spain).
An army was sent to Judaea under Titus Flavius Vespasianus to restore order; but it had not completed its task when two provincial governors in the west rebelled against Nero Julius Vindex in Gallia Lugdunensis and Sulpicius Galba in Hispania Tarraconensis.
Hispania, in Roman times, region comprising the Iberian Peninsula, now occupied by Portugal and Spain.
March 1, 38 or 41 Bilbilis, Spain c. 103 Martial, Latin in full Marcus Valerius Martialis (born Mar. 1, ad 38 41, Bilbilis, Hispania [Spain] died c. 103) Roman poet who brought the Latin epigram to perfection and provided in it a picture of Roman society during the early empire that is remarkable both for its completeness and for its accurate portrayal of human foibles.
It was probably after this that the peninsula was divided into three provinces: Baetica, with its provincial capital at Corduba (Córdoba); Lusitania, with its capital at Emerita Augusta (Mérida); and Tarraconensis (still called Hispania Citerior in inscriptions), based on Tarraco (Tarragona).
Martial, Latin in full Marcus Valerius Martialis (born Mar. 1, ad 38 41, Bilbilis, Hispania [Spain] died c. 103) Roman poet who brought the Latin epigram to perfection and provided in it a picture of Roman society during the early empire that is remarkable both for its completeness and for its accurate portrayal of human foibles.
