Moscow Raceway

Moscow Raceway

Address: 12 bld. 5 Teterinskiy side street Moscow 109004
Moscow , Russia
Route type:	permanent race track
Owner:	Stroytech
Operator:	Stroytech-5
Architect:	Hermann Tilke
Building-costs:	4.5 billion rubles (~ $ 150 million)
Start of building:	2008
Opening:	2012
Track layout
Route data
Route length:	4.070  km (2.53  mi )
Curves:	15th
Audience capacity:	100,000
Records
Track record: (automobile)	1: 24.831 min. ( Arthur Pic , Dallara - Zytek , 2012)
www.moscowraceway.ru (en)

Coordinates: 56 ° 0 ′ 1 ″  N , 36 ° 16 ′ 8 ″  E

The Moscow Raceway is a motorsport racetrack near Wolokolamsk around 80 kilometers northwest of the Russian capital Moscow . It opened in 2012 and that year hosted the Superbike World Championship and the World Series by Renault .

Planning and construction

In September 2008, planning began for a permanently used motorsport racetrack in Russia with the aim of hosting international racing series such as Formula 1 or DTM . The architect of the project is the Aachen architect Hermann Tilke . On 1 October the same year the symbolic was groundbreaking from the Formula 1 World Championship runner in 2001 , David Coulthard , set at the track. In 2009, the Formula 1 project was in favor of a new project in Sochi on the part of Bernie Ecclestone dropped.

The track has been classified in the FIA category 1T and FIM A and can therefore be used as a venue for all racing series.

route

The total length of the route is 4.070 kilometers. The width varies between twelve and 21 meters, the start-finish straight is 15 meters. The length of the back straight that leads to the start-finish is one kilometer. The maximum difference in altitude is 22 meters. In total, races can be held on 17 different layouts on the track . The length varies between about 1.3 and four kilometers.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Automobilsport.com: Moscow Raceway 2008 graphic
2. ↑ moscowraceway.ru: Infrastructure ( Memento from October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Superbike World Championship to be held in Russia in 2012
4. ↑ gpupdate.net: World Series by Renault: Moscow Raceway 2012
5. ↑ auto123.com: Construction Continues at new Moscow Raceway
6. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Coulthard: Groundbreaking for Russian Formula 1 circuit
7. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Ecclestone wants to Sochi and Rome
8. ↑ gpupdate.net: Moscow to start construction work this week
9. ↑ moscowraceway.ru: Configurations ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )