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Located only five minutes from the airport and 15 minutes from downtown Austin, Circuit of the Americas is a new world-class performance, entertainment and business destination in Texas. Circuit of the Americas is more than a track - ...

The Brazilian Grand Prix will be a true test of durability, heightened by the fact that the race is run in an anti-clockwise direction. The 4.3km circuit consists of 15 medium and slow speed corners, ten left ...

A great place for the race. That's what the billboards around Melbourne say and no one in Formula 1 would disagree. The Australian Grand Prix is one of the most popular races on the calendar, both for ...

Sepang was the first F1 circuit to be designed and built by Hermann Tilke. It's a wide racetrack (14m at its widest point); it's undulating and it has a mix of long straights and long, fast corners. ...

The Shanghai International Circuit has all the hallmarks of a Hermann Tilke-designed racetrack: it's wide, it has a long straight followed by a hairpin and it has some impressive architecture. Resembling the Chinese symbol for "high", Shanghai's track ...

A cutting edge facility located where once there was only desert, Sakhir hosted the Middle East's inaugural Grand Prix in 2004. The predominantly medium-speed corners aren't particularly taxing, but local conditions conjure other challenges. Drivers have to ...

A track that all teams know well, having raced here every year since 1991 and completed many thousands of kilometres of testing. The circuit's long corners are a good test of car stability and aerodynamic performance, and ...

The jewel in Formula 1's crown. The dash through the Principality's tortuous streets is the most prestigious on the calendar; it stands on a pedestal, almost distinct from the sport from which it was born. It's the social ...

Located on the Ile Notre Dame in the St Lawrence river, the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a low-downforce power track made up of long straights, chicanes and hairpins. Top-end speed, braking stability and traction are the keys ...

Winding through the city's harbour and docklands, Hermann Tilke's 5.440km lap of Valencia consists of 25 turns, 11 left and 14 right, but, unlike Monaco's tight and twisting street layout, the majority of Valencia's turns are long ...

Silverstone has had more facelifts than any other track on the calendar, yet it's managed to retain its fast and challenging nature. The start of the lap - Copse, Becketts and Stowe - is one of the ...

Many would argue that the major facelift in 2002 left the 2.8 mile Hockenheimring a bland expanse of tarmac. The passage through the heart of the Rhine forest may have been re-engineered, but that which remains still ...

Monaco with more run-off. The Hungaroring is a tight and twisty track at which the drivers have to manage 14 slow speed corners over just one 4.3km lap. Combined with some of the shortest straights on the ...

Located between Liege and Brussels in the Ardennes forest, at seven kilometers Spa-Francorchamps is the longest circuit on the calendar. Despite some significant modifications over the years from its original 14.9km layout, the current circuit is still ...

The fastest track in Formula 1. It's known colloquially as 'La Pista Magica', and with good reason: the atmosphere is second to none. The old banking, lying adjacent to the modern racetrack, gives the circuit a sense ...

Being F1's only night race, the Singapore Grand Prix has a completely different ambience to other day time races. The start time forces the F1 paddock to live a nocturnal lifestyle for the weekend, starting work in ...

Designed and built in 1962 by Dutchman John Hugenholz, the Hermann Tilke of his day, Suzuka is a drivers' circuit par excellence. Its unique figure-of-eight layout, its string of fast corners and the passionate yet polite Japanese ...

The 5.621km Yeongam track, located in the South Jeolla region of the Korean peninsula, is another Hermann Tilke creation. The track has a temporary street circuit section, which is included for the Grand Prix, and a 3.045-km ...

The teams and drivers approved the 5.141km Buddh International Race Circuit after it hosted the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in 2011, located just south of India's capital city New Delhi. The organisers and track designer Hermann Tilke ...

Formula 1's second event in the Middle East. The Yas Marina Circuit features a number of innovative features, including a five star hotel that straddles the track. On the ground, its 5.55 kilometres - run anti-clockwise - ...