By: fallen angel

Spa – ah… one of the most exciting circuits of the season! It’s the one of favourites among the drivers, has a beautiful view of nature throughout the circuit, and has one of the most challenging corners in all of Formula 1: Eau Rouge.

Quoting Wikipedia:

The most famous part of the circuit is the Eau Rouge / Raidillon combination. Having negotiated the La Source hairpin, drivers race down a straight to the point where the track crosses the Eau Rouge stream for the first time, before being launched steeply uphill into a sweeping left-right-left collection of corners with a blind summit. Properly speaking, the Eau Rouge corner is only the lefthander at the bottom. The following righthander that leads steeply uphill, which was introduced in 1939 to shortcut the original hairpin “Ancienne Douane”, is called “Raidillon” (fr:Raidillon de l’Eau Rouge). The corner requires a large amount of skill from the driver to negotiate well and the long straight ahead often produces good overtaking opportunities for the best drivers at the Les Combes corner.

It’s fast, it’s hilly, it’s twisty, and it sounds like it’s going to be an exciting race!

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