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Belgian GP preview: F1 gets Spa treatment

– After a month-long break to recharge the batteries, F1 will burst back into life with the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. GPUpdate.net previews this weekend's event and provides the key statistics.Spa-Francorchamps:In 1920, Jules de Thier, Manager of the newspaper "La Meuse", and Henri Langlois Van Ophem, Chairman of the Sports Commission at the RACB (Royal Automobile Club Belgium), came up with a plan to create a race track out of the roads connecting the towns of Malmedy, Stavelot and Francorchamps. A race was organised at the 'triangle' for 1921, but officials called it off, with only one car entered; eventually, motorcyclists inaugurated the track, before car...
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