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The Singapore Formula One Pit Building before the 2014 Singapore Grand Prix. The 'Singapore Sling' chicane (pictured in 2008) was removed before the 2013 Singapore Grand Prix. The track in 2019 as it approaches the Pit Building. On the day of confirmation of the Singapore Grand Prix in the 2008 Formula One season, a routemap was published. [12]
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 ...
The Singapore Grand Prix [a] is a motor racing event which forms part of the Formula One World Championship.The event takes place on the Marina Bay Street Circuit and was the inaugural night race and first street circuit in Asia designed for Formula One races.
RaceCam is a video camera system used primarily in motor racing, which uses a network of car-mounted cameras, microwave radio transmitters, and relays from helicopters to send live images from inside a race car to both pit crews and television audiences.
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 ...
Pit lane at Pocono Raceway In any racing series that permits scheduled pit stops, pit strategy becomes one of the most important features of the race; this is because a race car travelling at 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) will travel approximately 150 feet (45 metres) per second. During a ten-second pit stop, a car's competitors will gain approximately one-quarter-mile (450 ...
A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient asteroid impact crater. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and ...
When Scuderia Ferrari are testing a F1 car at the track, it is common to see Tifosi watching the test from the roadside, which is the closest point from which the track is viewable to the public. Ferrari customers are allowed to test drive new cars at the Fiorano circuit.