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Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit (from Khaya lami, My home in Zulu) is a 4.529 km (2.814 mi) motor racing circuit located in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa, just north of Johannesburg. The circuit has been used for Grand Prix and Formula One races and has hosted the South African Grand Prix twenty times.
The first South African Grand Prix was held in 1983 as the season opener at the Kyalami circuit in Midrand. [1] The circuit lay more than 1700 metres above sea level and the high altitude caused problems for the riders to set up their bikes.
Kyalami Circuit: Midrand South Africa: Grand Prix 4.529 km (2.814 mi) Lausitzring: Klettwitz Germany: Grand Prix 4.345 km (2.700 mi) Sprint 3.478 km (2.161 mi) Lihpao International Circuit: Taichung Taiwan: Grand Prix 3.500 km (2.175 mi) Lime Rock Park: Lakeville United States: Full 2.448 km (1.521 mi) Long Beach Street Circuit: Long Beach
Morocco and South Africa have hosted world championship grands prix in the past, Casablanca in 1958 and South Africa in East London in the 1960s and Kyalami 20 times between 1967 and 1993.
Africa is the only continent that F1 does not race in but the sport is keen to return to the Kyalami circuit outside Johannesburg. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
The fast Kyalami circuit, which was built in the early 1960s, played host to its first South African Grand Prix in 1967, where privateer John Love nearly took victory but ran into fuel problems late in the race, and Mexican Pedro Rodríguez took victory.
The 1985 South African Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 19 October 1985 at the Kyalami Circuit in South Africa.It was the fifteenth and penultimate round of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship.
The 1977 South African Grand Prix (formally the XXIII The Citizen Grand Prix of South Africa) was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 5 March 1977, won by Niki Lauda of Austria. The race is principally remembered for the accident that resulted in the deaths of race marshal Frederick Jansen van Vuuren and driver Tom Pryce .