Layout: Fictitious (designed by me) – © 2021 AllAlongTheRacetrack
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 second layout of the circuit, designed by me, combines the one inside the main tri-oval and a new concept track within the second oval.
An experiment of something similar was done in 2012 (with the full second oval) but was never replicated.
With a more modern and safe external course, it will be implemented for Formula 1: the result is a 7.8km circuit, with a twisty, slower and demanding first sector followed by a fast second part, full of overtaking spots thanks to long straights and hard braking zones.
Drivers will go back inside the tri-oval for the final sector, which is also part of the current GP circuit.
On this variant, we’ll see cars with much less downforce compared to the first version.
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)
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