Fourteen-year-old European skateboarding champion Axel Cruysberg tackles the undulating terrain of Eau Rouge on his skateboard for a BBC TV feature
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap time on Friday and the defending world champion will hope to continue his good recent form in the season's 12th race in Belgium on Sunday
Mercurial Finn Kimi Raikkonen is on good form in Belgium; the Ferrari man is full of praise for the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit. He thinks it is "nice". Asked to elaborate he offers, "because it's nice".
But it is German Nick Heidfeld (ahead of Timo Glock's Toyota) who steals the show in final practice, his BMW with a rare show of pace after a difficult season
Formula 1 fans shelter from the notoriously-changeable Belgian weather at the 4.3 mile circuit in the Ardennes mountains in the east of Belgium
More misery for Luca Badoer, the stand in Ferrari driver once again qualifies in 20th and last position, he manages to make time for a few off track moments just for good measure
Brawn GP's Rubens Barrichello, who posted his first win of the season in Valencia, can only manage 15th quickest in Saturday's practice
Barrichello trails team-mate Jenson Button by 18 points in the driver standings, but the Brazilian's title hopes receive a huge boost when qualifying gets under way
Button is four-tenths of a second slower than Barrichello in the second part of qualifying and fails to make it into the top-10 shoot-out
Among those in front of Button on the grid will be McLaren's world champion Lewis Hamilton, who also failed to make into the top-10 shoot-out and will start 12th
Red Bull were expected to dominate the race at Spa, but Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have to settle for eighth and ninth respectively in qualifying
In a major surprise, veteran Italian Giancarlo Fisichella earns Force India their first ever pole position in Formula 1, pipping Toyota's Jarno Trulli and the BMW of Nick Heidfeld
Rubens Barrichello (left) is among the first to congratulate fellow veteran Fisichella. The Brawn driver out-qualifies his title rivals to take fourth
Fisichella is joined on the front row by Toyota's Jarno Trulli (right) with Heidfeld claiming BMW's best qualifying position of the season in third
Fisichella's reward is a giant hug from Force India's billionaire owner Vijay Mallya, who will have high hopes of the team scoring their first points in F1 on Sunday
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