A lap of Mondello Park with Mike Conway

Mondello's always a good challenge as always, coming from Pau it's a similar kind of style - slow corners and some blind apexes.

Cross the line at 114 miles an hour, pulling sixth gear. It's quite a short braking distance into the first corner. There's a big lump on the circuit as you brake so you've got to really watch not to lock up the wheel.

Take the first corner in second gear and keep it really tight because the next couple of corners are really important: the next left-hander out up onto the back straight - you have to really maximise your exit out of there, it's quite quick selecting gears all the way through that corner, it's a bit awkward actually. Up Stena Line straight to the dog-leg right hander, approach it at about 120 mph, and take it at roughly 50mph, braking all the way into it.

The last bit of the corner goes up so as you come out the track drops away again so you can lose traction. This third corner is quite challenging - it's a dog leg corner and it's really quick, so that's where you find time on new tyres braking into there and being able to release that breaking that little bit quicker.

Then down into a short straight, braking into a long left-hander double apex using the entire road on the way out. You're coming from the left hand side, bringing it over to the right and it's quite a blind apex, you can't really see it until you're braking all the way into it. So you're braking quite late into it, and then need to get on the power as early as you can just to pick it up and get out with good exit speed. There are quite big curbs on the inside, so just use as much road as you can to get out.

And then it's down a bit of a hill and up into the second quickest corner on the track. There's a big curb on the inside, you can either use it or not use it depending on what line you take. Use all the road on the exit as the only run off is grass, so if you get it wrong it does really pull you off the circuit.

Then you're heading down hill all the way, down into a quite a tight braking area: a double right-hander similar to Sunny In and Sunny Out at Croft: you can't see the apex until your there. Braking just after the 100 metre board all the way into the corner, then just a little dab on the throttle in between, then off again, back on the power up out of the corner, selecting fourth, fifth, up into the chicane, which is pretty tight, use all the curbs on the exit.

Into the next left-hander, which is quite a long hair pin, there are a few different lines through there to again use all the road on the exit. Then coming out of there it's short straight before the quickest corner on the track, a fifth gear left-hander, there's a big curb on the inside and a big curb on the exit, so it's up to you how much you use, it's quite quick.

There's a short run up into the last corner, a right hander, you're braking as you go down into it and then try and get on the throttle as early as you can to maximise the exit all the way down the straight.