To the viewing public, Spa was a great race.
The Spa track is a real racing track, it's like Silverston.
You look at it, it's built in the Ardennes mountains, it's got rises, it's got falls.
It's got dramatic bends, it's got long straights.
The drivers were able to have a go at each other and everybody loves it.
You know you can have inclement weather which they had this time and the fourth practice session was cancelled because of the fog and the rain and the mist.
It just produces great racing, like Suzuka, which is another fabulous circuit.
The other thing with new contenders to have new Grands Prix like Bahrain and China is that they are purpose-built tracks and most of them have been designed by Hermann Tilke who designs to a set formula and they all seem to be the same.
Sepang in Malaysia is remarkably similar to the Bahrain circuit at Sakhir.
And some of them work and some of them don't.
I have to say he made revisions to the Hockenheim track which we thought would really be neutered but it does have some very good overtaking places.
The lesson here is you mustn't lose circuits like Spa which is everyone's favourite, or Suzuka, fantastic fast open racing circuits punctuated by slow corners like La Source.
Look at how many drivers hit each other at the first corner of the first lap whether you like it or loathe it, and most people like it, that's racing and the main thing is no one was hurt.
But entertainment wise, you were edge of your seat, youd didn't know what was going to happen next and only ten cars finished the race.
Tony Jardine was talking to Stephen Joyce.
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