How many of us, who don’t live in Germany, remember the Motodrom Gelsenkirchen? We’d wager very few but it remains a part of the country’s illustrious motor racing history. This…
Brands Hatch, which this year celebrates its centenary since opening as a venue for cycling, enjoyed its inaugural car racing meeting on April 16, 1950. The event, organised by the…
While Chimay is not, strictly speaking, a ‘lost circuit’, this historic Belgian race track is but a shadow of its former self, the glory days long consigned to the sport’s…
GREAT LOST CIRCUITS Talented racing drivers have, over the years, been one of New Zealand’s best-known exports – just look at the number of Kiwis who have crossed the oceans…
The Singapore Grand Prix is, for many, a highlight of the Formula 1 calendar, an unforgiving circuit through the streets providing plenty of floodlit drama. The history of the sport…
Nazareth, in eastern Pennsylvania, is synonymous with American motor racing, the town steeped in the history of the sport. Mario Andretti still lives there and when he won the Indy…
For a small nation with precious few circuits, Denmark has produced some great racing drivers, notably ‘Mr Le Mans’ himself Tom Kristensen. As for Formula 1, Tom Belsø was the…
Many of those who watch the Austrian Grand Prix will never have witnessed the visceral drama of racing at the magnificent Österreichring, part of which has morphed into what is…
Drivers who won races at Reims didn’t have far to go for a glass or two of champagne. This wonderful old circuit, where slipstreaming down the super-fast straights was thrilling…
Surrounded by forest and the flatlands of rural Sweden, Anderstorp was the home of the Swedish Grand Prix from 1973 to ’78 when ‘Superswede’ Ronnie Peterson was at the height…
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Rivalry is one of the prime tenets of motor sport. But in the case of the long defunct Gnoo Blas circuit in Orange, 177 miles west of Sydney, motor racing…
Ask anyone to name a race circuit in Belgium and they will surely plump for Spa-Francorchamps. For a time, just a decade, there was also Nivelles, a rather bland circuit…
Rockingham Speedway First car race 2001 Last car race 2018 Lap record 24.908sec, Jimmy Vasser, Lola B02/00, 2002 Rockingham, the first banked oval circuit to be built in Britain since…
Langhorne, a one-mile dirt track speedway in Pennsylvania, was a place that drivers both feared and respected, the ultimate challenge for the bravest of the brave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKK06hcdVao “No circuit scared…
As street circuits go, Montjuich Park had everything: the climbs and hairpins of Monaco (and then some), with fast-flowing sections demanding inch-perfect precision. First used for car racing in 1933…
A mountain circuit around two extinct volcanoes with 50 corners and just one brief straight – surely not a grand prix venue? Yet that was Charade, scenic but challenging, clinging…
