Layout: Actual
When was the track built?
This wonderful venue, a complex rarely built in Europe, with a tri-oval speedway, and a second circuit, intended as a test facility but with possibility to connect them and create various longer courses, was inaugurated in 2000, after a decade of proposal, delays and protests.
It has hosted almost any type of major motorsport event, except Formula One.
Thanks to the new organization, it will finally host also a Grand Prix and will offer three different layouts, two of them never seen, designed by me.
When was its first Grand Prix?
It will be the first ever F1 race on this racetrack.
It will rotate with other six circuits for the German spot in the F1 European Series calendar.
What’s the circuit like?
The first layout is the traditional Grand Prix course, which uses the third and final banked corner and the main straight of the oval and then it has a twisty and challenging sequence of turns inside it.
Overtaking might be tricky even if there are good opportunities at turn 1 and 6.
It will be difficult to choose a set-up due to a trade off between top speed and car balance in slower curves.
Where is it located?
In Klettwitz, in Eastern Germany. The closest airport is Dresden, around 30km away, while the two Berlin ones are over an hour drive away. (+ 51°32’04”, + 13°55’34)
All Along The Racetrack 