It is the third most used Grand Prix venue after Monza and Monaco. Quite apart from being the scene of Richard Seaman's death in 1939, it has made news in many other ways. Spa is a circuit that has seen history made.Instead, F1 went back for another go in September, this time successfully. Actually, F1 actually went to Spa twice in 1985: the track surface broke up the first time, on the Saturday June 1st, and the race was called off. In 1983, the race returned to the now rebuilt Spa again, then returned to Zolder again for a year before making its popular home in the hills of the Ardennes. The Grand Prix has been spread around four quite different circuits: the original, marvellous Spa which took in visits to Burnenville, Masta and Stavelot from 1956 through 1970, before the event went briefly to Nivelles and, for a slightly longer stay, to Zolder.Many others were better known, like Jacky perhaps, as sports car racers: Paul Frere, Olivier Gendebien, Willy Mairesse, even Eric van der Poele. Between them, Jacky Ickx and Thierry Boutsen have won 11 races. Of those 19 drivers, just two have won Grands Prix.
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But there haven't been that many Belgian Grand Prix drivers - just 19, and two who failed to qualify for a race at all.
A pair of fast chicanes - the Bus stop sequence - slow the cars down slightly before they return to the pit straight and start another lap of this most challenging of circuits.
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The straight is, in fact, a series of left hand, flat-out kinks - the toughest being the particularly tight Blanchimont. The third gear corner leads onto the main straight, so drivers slide their car wide in a desperate attempt to get their speed up. No time to relax, as there is only another short straight before the next corner, the tough right hand Stavelot. A brief straight, and the drivers follow the road right into the fast Les Fagnes chicane. If taken fast enough, the opportunity exists to out-drag an opponent along the Kemmel straight into the Les Combes chicane.Ī tight hairpin, Malmedy and nearly flat left hander, Rivage, lead the drivers into the fast Pouhon double apex left hander. The track is doubly wide on the exit, so expect to see a wide variety of lines in an attempt to gain extra speed on an opponent before the run in to the fearsome Eau Rouge.ĭriving steeply down hill, past the old pit lane that is currently used for support races, the track twists left, hard right and uphill, then left again. Fastest race lap: 1:51.095 (A.Prost, Williams, 1993) įastest Qualifying Lap: 1:47.571 (A.Prost, Williams, 1993)Īs the field crosses the start/finish line, the drivers brake hard before changing down to first for the tight La Source hairpin.
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