Belgian Grand Prix: Soaking Up the Atmosphere at Spa-Francorchamps

"When you go to Spa, never pay for a grandstand ticket." That was the advice of a fevered-up Scot in Liege on Saturday evening, given to us with a knowing nod. The bad thing about this advice was he was telling us on the eve of the Grand Prix with our tickets in hand. The good thing is we didn’t pay for the tickets. "Ah," he smiled. "Well you’ve not got to worry." It all started when my other half moved to France for a year as part of her University of Kent programme (which, incidentally, is a sentence I never thought I’d write for a piece of motorsport journalism). I met her in Paris for Valentine’s Day and, as all good men would, dragged her (she actually initiated it, surprisingly) into as many car showrooms ...

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