All private now. I went a couple of years back for the 6 Hours. A drive along the old circuit is really something and takes an absolute age. The track was HUGE in every sense.
Martin Brundle for SkySports:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1KTNnAEc28What that film misses is just how long the straight are, a sense of how they'd build up to and hold their maximum speed. At those speeds the cambers and bumps and cross winds would be really significant and the challenge of passing - or being passed - in a sports car race with such different cars I can't imagine.
Hamilton and Coultard for the BBC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwcLaD0sbV8Some nice aerial shots and a look at the map that give a sense of bends that go on and on and on at really serious speeds.
This period film goes all the way round at touring speed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMFPBWyk24It gives a sense of the width of it and what there is each side of the road. A car that left the track might take a lot of finding. It also reminded me that Eau Rouge is about three times steeper than it ever looks on TV or in stills, that the corner at the top is where it goes wrong, and that the straight that follows climbs and climbs. The view from one end of the circuit to the other is spectacular and its a long long way even now.
I'd love to go back... Very laid back place, lovely museum in the next town.
David