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The first World Championship Grand Prix was held in 1950 at Silverstone; since then 77 circuits in total have hosted a Grand Prix.A lot of classic (older) circuits have hosted Grands Prix using different configurations throughout their history: Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, Monza, etc. Taking Nürburgring as an example, the first World Championship race there used the 22.835 km (14.189 mi ...
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1:50.0 (Stirling Moss, Cooper T45, 1958, Formula Libre) The Albert Park Circuit is a motorsport street circuit around Albert Park Lake in the suburb of Albert Park in Melbourne . It is used annually as a circuit for the Formula One Australian Grand Prix , the supporting Supercars Championship Melbourne SuperSprint and other associated support ...
Corner numbers are marked with the numbers "1" through "10", the start/finish line is marked with a checkered flag and a large arrow showing a direction of travel. The dashed lines show the sectors in roughly the same colours that Formula One's official graphics do, although this has been edited to fit with a colour palette intended to reduce ...
The track is 4.940 km (3.070 mi) [5] long in a harbourside location similar in style to the Circuit de Monaco and the Valencia Street Circuit. The circuit was designed by KBR , [ 6 ] and is a modification of the original one first proposed by Hermann Tilke . [ 6 ]
The Dequetteville Terrace straight (named after Jack Brabham for Formula One and Peter Brock for the Adelaide 500) was a 900 m (980 yd) stretch where the over 1,000 bhp (746 kW; 1,014 PS) Formula One cars in the turbo era (1985–88) were reaching speeds in excess of 200 mph (320 km/h) making Adelaide easily the fastest street circuit of the ...
The Shanghai International Circuit is the first in China to be purpose-built for Formula One and it hosts FIA Formula One World Championship Chinese Grand Prix every year since 2004. [3] The circuit also holds a number of global high-profile series, including the FIA World Endurance Championship and the Blancpain GT Series Asia.
Most (driving) penalties in one race: 5: Esteban Ocon (2023 Austrian Grand Prix) [36] Most grid-place (engine) penalties for one race: 70: Jenson Button (2015 Mexican Grand Prix) [37] Youngest average age of podium finishers: 23 years, 256 days: 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix (Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly, Carlos Sainz Jr.) [38] Oldest average age ...