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The Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg (German: [ˈhɔkŋ̍haɪmʁɪŋ ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ) is a motor racing circuit situated in the Rhine valley near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.
The Hockenheimring dragstrip, 2005 Looking down a drag strip. Note the Christmas tree countdown lights in the center Drag racing vehicles ready to race Bring your own cars waiting to run down the dragstrip Snowmobile vs. Motorcycle. A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing.
Before the drag strip a feature referred to as a 'water box' is used by the racers to do burnouts. [21] The typical distance of a drag strip is a quarter of a mile, 1320 feet/402 metres. [ 28 ] A shut down area exists immediately after the finishing line enabling the vehicles to stop in a room designed especially for that task.
PJ1 TrackBite (formerly known as VHT TrackBite or simply VHT) is a custom formulated synthetic resin, typically black in color, used in drag racing to either increase the traction of a car's tires or as a sealer for newly ground and/or resurfaced race tracks. [1]
The layout of the Hockenheimring. The 2020 Hankook 16 Hours of Hockenheimring was the 1st running of the 16 Hours of Hockenheimring.It is the fourth round of both the 2020 24H GT Series and the 2020 24H TCE Series, the third round of the Europe and Continent Series, and will be held from 5 to 6 September at the Hockenheimring.
The town is widely known for its Hockenheimring, a motor racing course, which has hosted over 30 Formula One German Grand Prix races since 1970. Hockenheim is one of the six largest towns in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district; since 1999 the number of inhabitants exceeded the 20,000 threshold, thus the town received the status of a regional ...
Races were held in West Germany beginning in the 1960s at the airbases at Ramstein and Sembach [18] and in the UK at various airstrips and racing circuits [19] before the opening of Europe's first permanent drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway in 1966. In the 1990s some former russian and NVA airfields in former GDR were used for dragracing events.
The 1989 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.It took place on the weekend of 26–28 May 1989 at the Hockenheimring circuit.