After the long summer break we finally return to Formula 1 racing this week. The teams return to one of the favourite tracks of many drivers and fans: Spa-Francorchamps. One of those drivers is Vitantonio Liuzzi: "Spa Francorchamps is every driver's favourite circuit, because of its high-speed nature and the challenge it represents. Our car should be better suited to tracks like this, so I’m really looking forward to it. It’s a bit of an anniversary because on August 28, 2004 I finished the Formula 3000 race on the second step of the podium having started from pole. For me, Spa is the nicest track of all!"

His teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, agrees with Liuzzi and looks forward to driving a F1 car through the Belgian Hills: "Among several memories from my 55 career podiums, I started from pole and won one of the last Formula 3 British races in Spa in 2009, so it's a circuit that I know. In the small formula cars it gets boring because you run out of power on all those long straights, but I'm really looking forward to driving a Formula One car there. The weather is always a question mark. I love the middle sector and its great flow. It's one of the best circuits and should suit us well”.

Last year only 1 HRT car managed to finish. Sakon Yamamoto finished 20th. Bruno Senna failed to finish and retired with suspension problems.