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  • Bird's eye view of Spa

    GP2 driver Sam Bird gives ESPN his track guide to the iconic Spa-Francorchamps circuit ahead of this weekend's grand prix

  • RBR change gear over Raikkonen

    Podcast: Join Jonathan Legard and the team as they discuss Raikkonen's future, Ricciardo at Red Bull and this weekend's Belgian GP

  • Put your money where your mouth is

    The Inside Line looks at one of the more obscure ways the future of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa could be secured

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Featured Race Belgian GP 1970

Pedro Rodriguez won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, bringing BRM their first outright victory for four years. The build-up to the race was overshadowed by the death of Bruce McLaren, who had been killed while testing at Goodwood earlier in the week. Starting back on the fourth row of the grid, Rodriguez carved his way into the lead by the fifth lap, and was only briefly headed by early leader Chris Amon on the eighth lap. Amon harried and hounded Rodriguez lap after lap until he fell back in the final stages. Spa itself was under the spotlight. The 1969 race had been cancelled on safety grounds, and while there were a few signs of improvement, there were still issues, not least the absence of enough safety barriers. The race was in doubt until the last hour when a run-through by a driver gave it the all clear, but the circuit dropped off the calendar the following year.

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    Kimi Raikkonen gives some feedback from the cockpit during his GP3 test
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    Kimi Raikkonen aims for an apex testing a GP3 car
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Featured Driver Roger Williamson

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One of Britain's up and coming young drivers, Roger Williamson's Formula One career was tragically short. On the back of good performances in Ford Anglia saloon car racing and winning the British Formula Three championship in 1971 and 1972, he was offered a drive by the March team for 1973. His first race at Silverstone ended in a 13-car pile-up on the opening lap, and in his second he crashed at Zandvoort and was unable to free himself from his burning car. Despite the brave efforts of David Purley, Williamson died of asphyxiation at the age of just 25.