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Preview: Belgian Grand Prix - Round 13

– Formula 1 returns to action with the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend, following its now traditional summer break. GPUpdate.net previews the sport's latest visit to Spa-Francorchamps and provides the key facts.Spa-Francorchamps:Back in 1920, Jules de Thier, Manager of the newspaper "La Meuse", and Henri Langlois Van Ophem, Chairman of the Sports Commission at the RACB (Royal Automobile Club Belgium), came up with a plan to create a race track out of the roads connecting the towns of Malmedy, Stavelot and Francorchamps.A race was organised at the 'triangle' for 1921, but officials called it off, with only one car registered on the entry form; eventually, the track was...
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