# El Grand Prix del verano

El Grand Prix del verano (transl. The Grand Prix of the summer) is a Spanish prime-time television summer competition between small towns created by Francesco Boserman and produced by Europroducciones. It was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española (TVE) nationwide for eleven seasons from 1995 to 2005, and on some regional broadcasters of the Federation of Regional Organizations of Radio and Television (FORTA) in their respective regions for three seasons from 2007 to 2009. In summer 2023, TVE resumed the program for one more season, and, due to the good reception, it was confirmed for the summer of 2024.
With the same premise as French television show Intervilles, it features mixed teams representing small towns in Spain competing in a series of games –usually funny physical games played in outlandish costumes, though none-the-less technically difficult, but also general knowledge games where mayors and celebrity godparents are put to the test–, some of which involve live heifers (referred to as the vaquillas). Due to the animal welfare law coming into force in 2023, for season 15 the vaquillas were replaced by an anthropomorphic heifer portrayed by a person in a full-body costume who hindered a team at the request of the opposing team.
The show had a version for children, Peque Prix, a competition between schools that aired on TVE for six seasons between 1998 and 2000 and a special aired on Canal 9 and Telemadrid in 2007. It also had a version for Portugal, Todos Gostam do Verão (transl. Everyone likes summer), which featured Portuguese towns, was filmed in the same studio with the same sets of the Spanish version, and was broadcast for one season on SIC in summer 2009.
On 31 December 2024, a controversy concerning the Grand Prix heifer occurred, when Spanish actress and comic Laura Yustres showed during La 1 emissions of New Year's Eve a picture of the cattle imitating the Sacred Heart.

## Hosts

| Hosts | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons |
| Hosts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | |
| Ramón García | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Host | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Host | Host | Host |
| Bertín Osborne | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear | Host | Host | Host | Does not appear | Does not appear | Does not appear |

## Episodes

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released | Originally released | Avg. viewers (millions) | Avg. share | Winning town |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First released | Last released | Network | Avg. viewers (millions) | Avg. share | Winning town |
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 17 July 1995 | 18 September 1995 | La Primera | 3.160 | 27.0% | Cudillero |
| 2 | 13 | 13 | 21 June 1996 | 13 September 1996 | La Primera | 3.877 | 36.6% | Guijuelo |
| 3 | 13 | 13 | 27 June 1997 | 19 September 1997 | La Primera | 3.160 | 33.4% | Murchante |
| 4 | 13 | 13 | 1 July 1998 | 25 September 1998 | La Primera | 3.025 | 27.7% | Tordera |
| 5 | 13 | 13 | 5 July 1999 | 27 September 1999 | La Primera | 2.874 | 27.0% | El Bonillo |
| 6 | 11 | 11 | 10 July 2000 | 21 September 2000 | La Primera | 2.811 | 24.5% | Suances |
| 7 | 13 | 13 | 25 June 2001 | 17 September 2001 | La Primera | 2.837 | 24.7% | Nuevo Baztán |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | 15 July 2002 | 2 September 2002 | La Primera | 3.258 | 30.1% | Griñón |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | 25 June 2003 | 3 September 2003 | La Primera | 2.875 | 27.2% | Los Molinos |
| 10 | 8 | 8 | 16 July 2004 | 30 August 2004 | La Primera | 2.575 | 23.3% | Falces |
| 11 | 13 | 13 | 15 June 2005 | 11 September 2005 | La Primera | 2.205 | 19.2% | Carrión de los Condes |
| 12 | 14 | 14 | June–November 2007 | June–November 2007 | FORTA | 0.604 | 12.0% | Ricote |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | June–September 2008 | June–September 2008 | FORTA | 0.760 | 13.0% | Ador |
| 14 | 13 | 13 | June–September 2009 | June–September 2009 | FORTA | 0.758 | 9.8% | Renedo de Esgueva |
| 15 | 7 | 7 | 24 July 2023 | 4 September 2023 | La 1 | 1.691 | 19.2% | Alfacar |
| 16 | 10 | 10 | 8 July 2024 | 6 September 2024 | La 1 | 1.092 | 12.2% | Olvera |
| | 3 | 3 | 23 December 2024 | 3 January 2025 | La 1 | 0.712 | 8.0% | Aguilar de Campoo |

## Accolades
### Tp de Oro

| Year | Category | Recipient | Result |
| 1995 | Best Presenter | Ramón García | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Presenter | Ramón García | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Presenter | Ramón García | Nominated |
| 1998 | Best Presenter | Ramón García | Nominated |
| 1999 | Best Presenter | Ramón García | Nominated |
| 2003 | Best Presenter | Ramón García | Nominated |

### ATV Awards

| Year | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
| 1999 | Entertainment: varieties and game shows | | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Best Show (Entertainment) | | Nominated | [13] [14] |
| 2024 | Best Presenter (Entertainment) | Ramón García | Nominated | [13] [14] |
| 2024 | Best Direction (TV Shows) | Gabriela Ventura | Nominated | [13] [14] |
| 2024 | Best Camera Direction | Valerio Boserman | Nominated | [13] [14] |
| 2024 | Best Screenplay (Entertainment) | Javier Pilar / Carlos Soria | Nominated | [13] [14] |
| 2024 | Best Production (Entertainment) | Patricia de Orive / Engel Serón / Cristina Benavente | Nominated | [13] [14] |