Jenson Button describes a lap of the Barcelona circuit in Spain:

"A lap of Barcelona starts with a very fast entry to the first corner where I will be doing around 110 km/h in top gear before braking hard to the first double corner. The first part of this is taken in second gear at over 120 km/h and I will then accelerate through the left hand part of the corner, taken in third gear just before turning to the left and hitting the apex at around 175 km/h."

"Turn three is a very difficult corner as, like much of the circuit, it is affected a lot by the wind direction. I will take it in fourth gear and depending on the wind I will probably hold around 210 km/h through this corner, I have to be very precise and look after the tyres as well as getting the apex correct."

"A short straight, where I will briefly take 5th gear and reach about 285 km/h, leads into the tight right-hand turn four where I will drop down to 2nd gear and apex at just under 120km/h. I will briefly get into 4th gear before going down to 2nd gear for the tight left-hand corner which I take at 95 km/h. Again a very short straight where I reach around 260km/h in 4th gear leads into the next left-hand corner taken at around 130 km/h in either 2nd or 3rd gear. I will accelerate out of this reaching just under 250 km/h in 4th gear before braking very lightly and holding 4th gear through the 200 km/h corner that leads on to the back straight."

"The back straight is also affected by wind and I will reach just under 300 km/h but may use 5th or 6th gear depending on whether I have head wind or tail wind. I will brake hard before another hard left-hand corner, taken at around 100 km/h in 2nd gear. I briefly reach 3rd gear before braking again and changing down to 2nd gear for the next right-hand corner taken at around 115km/h. This leads straight into the final two corners which are extremely fast and challenging. They are both taken in 4th gear, the first corner at just under 230 km/h and the final corner at 220km/h. These are very exiting corners where I pull a lot of G force and can make a significant difference to my speed on to the straight. I will cross the finish line at just under 275km/h in 5th gear before finally taking 6th gear on the long straight."

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