“Coming over the start finish line, building up through the gears, you take the right kink flat out and arrive at Turn Two doing about 310kph in seventh gear. This is a tricky corner as you are braking to about 110kph and changing down five gears for a hairpin to the right, but you have to do all this while cornering slightly as the track bends to the left. It’s really easy to lose the car on the brakes here and for the first lap of the race it can get pretty busy!”

“Back up through the gears and up to 270kph before you dab the brakes and drop two gears to zip through Turn Four at about 130 kph. Around Turn Five flat in fourth at about 260kph and building up to fifth gear before braking hard for the chicane at Turn Six and Turn Seven. You carry through as much speed as possible and bounce over the kerbs because Turn Eight under the bridge is a good overtaking spot. Down to 150kph and then 140kph, you can get alongside other drivers under braking and hold them off line as you turn right and around the outside of the gravel to the left. Up though the gearbox again to sixth gear and around 300kph, you stamp hard on the brakes to slow the car for the 60kph first-gear hairpin. All around you are grandstands here and there’s a huge Ferrari following which makes coming into this section really nice.”