Drivers will lose 6+ lbs in Malaysia

"Sepang is a very interesting track, for me one of the best circuits of the year. It’s modern but it has a bit of character and I won here in 2006 so I have good memories. It’s a nice circuit actually, with many different types of corners. There are a couple of slow corners, for example turns one and two and again in nine. Turns five and six are high speed, fifth gear corners and turn 11 is one of the most difficult braking points of the season – when you brake, your front wheels are on the right hand side of the track so the front is locking but just at the end of the braking you’ve got oversteer. It’s difficult to get right. Everyone says this is the toughest race of the season so it seems like a cliché, but it really is hard, both physically and mentally. It’s hot and humid and the circuit is quite twisty, so physically it takes a lot out of you – we sweat so much that at the end of the race I normally lose around 6 or 7 pounds of weight." Giancarlo Fisichella