Eau Rouge is one of those mythic corners
All the teams are lined up on that wall
Everybody's watching to see who's going left or
Who's going to carry the most speed through there
And for the drivers,
You all know you really judge each other
Because it's one of those measures of bravery
When you come out of that hairpin,
You make a gear change, you get up to speed
You start hugging the pit wall and trying to get as
Much aerodynamic benefit from hiding behind the wall
All you're doing, the whole way down, is measuring the car
And getting yourself absolutely prepared to what's about to happen
Because if you don't walk up to Eau Rouge
Without a very firm plan to what's going to happen
You land in trouble very quickly
You go into this enormous compression and the car behaves quite oddly
And it because fires into this wall of tarmac,
It resists, so you end up using quite a lot of steering force
And it goes the opposite to a point as you
Go over that crest where everything lines up
It's like a dance