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Spa Treatment

The Formula One fraternity cheerfully returned to Spa-Francorchamps last week, for the first official test at the venue in a couple of decades. But the place has changed quite markedly, as the drivers and team managers soon found out. Is that change good or bad? And what will become of F1's hallowed circuit? Adam Cooper attended the final day of testing to find out

Last week's three-day Formula One test at Spa was quite an occasion, if only because it was the first such event at the spectacular Belgian venue for a very, very long time.

Back in April 1983 the revised track, already in use for some four years by F2 and touring cars, played host to F1 cars for the first time. It was a month before the first Grand Prix, and the new pit buildings before La Source were still under construction.

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