A Lap of Interlagos with Giancarlo Fisichella

"Having passed the start/finish line I will reach about 310km/h at the end of the pit straight, before braking hard for the very difficult first corner which drops away and is taken in second gear at about 105km/h. This is immediately followed by a right-hand corner and for this I will shift up to third gear and take the corner at around 155km/h, having to use part throttle to balance the car. The long sweeping left-hand corner that leads on to the back straight is taken flat, starting in third gear at about 200km/h and exiting in fifth gear at over 250km/h."

"On the back straight I will achieve a similar speed to the pit straight and, while the actual point of maximum speed will depend on the wind, typically we will again reach 310km/h before braking for turn four, which is taken in third gear at 135km/h. The left-hand corner immediately leads into a second part which is taken in fourth gear at about 240km/h."

"A fifth gear straight, where I will reach 285km/h, leads into a complex of corners, the first part of which is taken in fourth gear at around 200km/h. This long right-hand corner requires a very fine balance of the throttle not to upset the car on the entry to turn seven, which is a very slow, tight right-hand corner taken in first gear at just over 70km/h."

"Turn eight is also slow, taken in second gear at around 100 km/hr, and traction out of here is quite difficult. The following straight is quite short as I reach fourth gear and around 210km/h before braking hard for the slowest corner of the track, Turn 9. I take this in first gear at around 70km/h."

"From here I accelerate through turn 10, which is a long left-hand corner taken in fourth gear at about 205km/h and again I have to feather the throttle to balance the car through this corner. I will approach the last corner in fifth gear at about 255km/h, before entering one of the most critical corners on the circuit, turn 11, which is taken in second gear at around 110km/hr. This is a very long corner, at about 650 meters long, with hard acceleration all the way through it."

"A good exit from this corner is extremely important in order to obtain a high top speed on the pit straight and again into the first corner, which provides the best overtaking opportunity on the track."

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