Hello Mini fans, uh, as you can imagine from the title of this video, the announcement that I'm going to make is not as good as you can imagine. And unfortunately, yes, many Mini drivers and Mini bikers will end today. I know it's something unexpected.

But there are some reasons that I'm going to explain to you that I took this decision. So, first of all, I want to say sorry because I'm not giving a proper ending to many drivers because there are still three races left and a possible season finale. But some personal reasons made me

make this choice. And well, this decision came too early for me and also too late because when I started the series in 2008, uh, my first idea was to make Mini for only 10 years. But there was a great community that grew up with the series and I love

the, the fans, the support that I had. So after those 10 years, I decided to continue until 20 years, but as you have seen, it was only 16 years since I started and this is the, the end of the, the series. The reason is, there are a few reasons, but

the most important is because I need to stop, to stop for my, for my mental health. And, and I want to explain this because you know that this is just a hobby for me and I have a work at a hospital. And when my daughter was born, I

even changed the hospital that I was working at to have my weekends free so I could spend more time with my wife and my daughter. And I even found a way to make some of the videos faster, like the qualifying or the spring sessions, and I'm really proud that I was

able to make the chapter so fast thinking when I started that it took me so many days to make a simple animation now in just one hour I couldn't make all the sessions but is it true that even working as fast I'm not having the time that I deserve with my family and it's costing my relationship with my wife and daughter so I had to take some decisions and one of them is to decide what was going first if my family or the series and you can imagine that

the decision was clear it's my family go first and this is my future right now my present and my future so again I'm really sorry for not giving the ending that you deserve of the series but this last weekend was really horrible for me there was so many

problems that uh I have from things that happen in my personal life with my family with my work and all together was a bomb that had to explode and I saw that one of the things that caused that explosion was the amount of work

that I made with the minis because as I said I work really fast with the chapters but I have the feeling that I'm not giving the quality that you deserve and I have seen that in the last years the series were not having the

same amount of fans that views that had years ago and I saw that it was dying so I prefer to stop it before it's too late and again I'm sorry that I'm not giving the ending that you deserve a good ending with

mini Forest speed8, but I hope you can understand my decision to stop. Uh, well, maybe this can feel like a goodbye, and I hope that maybe in the future, I don't know if I will return with the Minis, but for now, I have

to move on, to stop, to reorganize my mind and go, go ahead. So again, saying sorry to all of you that you were expecting the next chapters of Las Vegas, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, and the season finale to know who was behind the helmet of Dark Mini. And I'm sorry to

disappoint all of you, but I need to, as I said, I need to think a bit of myself, to my family, and I have to stop. So again, and sorry to all of you. I want to say that maybe the chapters will end right now, but

there is a community that grew up with all of you thanks to all of you that will continue. The groups of Telegram, Discord will stay there. I will stay on Twitter, maybe not talking about the series, but maybe I can talk about the races or who knows if I will give

my opinion there, but I will move on with the animation, the designs. I know that you don't deserve this because you deserve something good, something that was given with a lot of love. That is what I started, why I started making the Minis, to bring

another view of races, and I hope that in those 16 years I made you see the races in a different type of way. I hope you started to love the Moto GP, Formula 1, Formula E, uh, as I love to, and I'm proud of what I made, all

these years and I'm really proud of what I've achieved, where am I right now because nothing of this would be the same without all the fans and there are a lot of people who I have to thank, a lot of teams, riders, drivers in Formula 1, of course I have to

thank Saber and HRG for giving me the chance to work with them and give them some exclusive content that I'm really proud of, especially in Moto GP. There are a lot of teams who I have to thank, like

Leopard Racing, LCR, who, why I'm making still designs for them, and a lot of writers who use the Minis as a way to support, like for example, Jeno, because Mini Bikers started thanks to him, or Alvaro Bautista, that was the

only writer that made me see that there are even writers watching the series, something that I wasn't expecting. And there are, I said, a lot of people who I have to thank, like the collaborators that I had during all these years with the scripts of the

chapters, like Victor Abat, F. Rory, Formula 1, Ariana Roio, Mara in Moto GP, the people who were writing in my website the articles when I wasn't able to write them as a way to make things even faster. And there are two more persons I

have to thank, like for example, Ivan from Ivanovic Games for making this video game of The Minis, something that I'm really proud that I could bring to all of you because when I started, I didn't think that I was able to make a Mario

Kart game with my cartoons and there is also another special person, which is Gonzalo Serano, who was for me the voice of Formula 1 in my childhood. He gave me the chance to bring the mean drivers to TV, something that made me

again proud of what I made because it was something that I wasn't expecting. Looking backwards, it was a long road, the one that I made with the minis. This road was possible thanks to all of the fans that I have around

the world. I wasn't expecting that I receive love from the other side of the world, from people from Japan, Australia, Indonesia, from America, from Latin America too, from Mexico. It's something that for me is incredible, and as I said, I'm really proud of what I achieve. And also, I'm

really sorry for not giving you the proper ending. As I said, I hope this is not a goodbye. This is only... uh... I see you soon, and I hope in the future I can bring back the minis, bring you the

quality that you deserve. I so I hope that I could reorganize my mind and feel better with myself to solve all the problems that I have. And as I said, to change again the way to view the races. I want to thank all of you for

being here all these years, and I wish you all the best. As I said, it was a long journey. It was great to stay with you, and I wish you all the best. Enjoy the future of Motorsport, which is great. Enjoy the races, and I hope that I'm going to

see you soon bye-bye to many fans and remember mini-good

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