Jacques Villeneuve's lap of Spa-Francorchamps.

Lucky Strike BAR Honda driver Jacques Villeneuve describes a lap of Spa-Francorchamps, venue for this weekend's Belgium Grand Prix:

''Spa is a great race! I love the track. I've got memories of big crashes at Spa and actually I've never had a good race there but I have had good qualifying.''

''It's definitely a track where you can feel stronger than the rest if you go through the corners flat. It's one of the last high speed circuits that we have and it's a very long lap but you really feel like you're going somewhere. It's got a good rhythm and it follows the layout of the land. You turn because there's a mountain so there's a reason for the layout.''

''It's not like most modern tracks, which are like parking lots that you put cones around to create as many corners as you can with no logic or rhythm. This one has both. It's like you're driving to your house in the mountains!''

''You start with short acceleration into heavy braking for the La Source hairpin. There's a good overtaking opportunity here but it's not a very important corner otherwise.''

''Strong acceleration downhill and you get into Eau Rouge, which is probably the most exciting corner in modern F1.''

''It's a corner that has a little kink to the left and then you start turning right as the track starts going up. You pull a lot of Gs through there and really get pulled down to the ground.''

''The car bottoms and hits the ground, you get a little bit sideways because the bottom of the car is touching the ground and at the same time you don't see the exit of the corner so you're just turning right as the track goes up. You don't see where you're going and suddenly you're turning left and the track has stopped going up.''

''At that point the car suddenly gets very light. And all that was flat out! Or in qualifying it's flat out: Not every year but some years, and there have often been some big crashes there. It's a really exciting corner to do.''

''Going flat out doesn't really make your overall lap faster but it does make you feel proud. Pride is stupid, but it is important!''

''Eau Rouge is also important because you have a very long straight after it with an overtaking opportunity at the end. Then it's heavy breaking into Les Combes, a right-left combination that's not really a chicane. Really it's just a right-left 3rd gear corner taken at about 140 kph.''

''Both parts are 90 degrees and both are long corners. Straight after, it's slow acceleration before another 90 degree right-hand corner that starts going downhill as you turn in. Then there's a short piece of straight, not very long and taken in 4th or 5th gear into Rivage, which is quite tight with short, heavy braking.''

''Then it's another short acceleration and a quick tap on the brakes for the second part of Rivage, a mid speed left- hander. It's a very difficult corner to do because you're not actually braking - just tapping the brakes as you turn in.''

''It's hard to keep the balance of the car here as the rear often gets light as you go downhill. Then there's a mid-speed straight in 6th gear still going downhill into Pouhon, a high speed left hander taken at about 200 kph or a little bit faster.''

''It's just a quick tap on the brakes as you just turn in so it's very fast and not really a corner. Or, it's a corner in the wet but not in the dry basically.''

''Then it's a medium speed straight, up to 5th gear and into Fagnes, another right- left combination but a little bit faster than the previous one. Actually, the right hand part is faster than the left-hander so you go into the corner faster than you come out, which makes it interesting.''

''Following this there's a short straight, at the end of which, just before you hit the brakes, the track starts going downhill. Then there's Stavelot, a 90 degree right-hander that's quite fast at about 170 kph. Stavelot is also a corner that's difficult to do properly because the track is going downhill and you're going fast enough to slide easily. Just when you're coming out of the corner there's a kink, which since traction control is flat in 4th or 5th gear.''

''It wasn't flat when we didn't have traction control though and if you get out of the previous corner too wide it's very easy to make a mistake in this corner.''

''Finally, you get onto the highest bit of the track. A very long straight that's got a few kinks which means that you can't be side by side, but it's just flat out right through Blanchimont and into the Bus-Stop chicane. This is the annoying part of the track that every track has - it's just a 2nd/1st gear chicane with bad curbs. Depending on how much you touch those curbs, or how you take that chicane, you'll do a good lap time.''