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Spa-Francorchamps a natural wonder to Sutil

Adrian Sutil hails Spa as the best circuit on the calendar © Sutton Images

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Force India driver Adrian Sutil says that the Spa-Francorchamps circuit is one of the most beautiful and challenging on the calendar because of its 'spectacular corners' and changeable weather.

"It's what I call a 'nature' track - through the forests and really follows the lines and contours of the hills," said Sutil. "For me, it's is the best circuit on the calendar as it has some of the most spectacular corners of the year, such as the awesome climb through Eau Rouge. There's really nowhere else like it to get your adrenaline going and with the added challenge of changeable weather, we see some great, exciting racing."

The team enjoyed its best outing to date in 2009, with Giancarlo Fisichella qualifying on pole before finishing second. And Sutil is confident the circuit will once again play to the car's strengths, particularly with regards to the F-duct and blown diffuser.

"Of course last year the team had a dream result at Spa, with the pole and then the podium, so we'll go back there with confidence knowing that this has been historically a track we've performed very well on. But this is 2010 and we have to look at what we are doing now rather than to the past. I'm pretty confident that we've got a car that will still suit the track very well. We've still got a very strong straightline speed advantage and the F-duct makes us quickest through the speed traps at most circuits we go to - which will help us on the long straights in Belgium.

"We will also test our new blown diffuser again on Friday here. It worked well in Hungary and gave an improvement over the normal floor so we'll work through more development in practice and, if it performs as well as we hope, we'll use it in the race."

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