Phakisa Freeway

Routing of the Phakisa Freeway

Routing of the tri-oval

The Phakisa Freeway is a motorsport race track in the Free State Province in South Africa .

The route with the unusual nickname "Freeway" was opened in April 1999 after seven months of construction and is located near the town of Welkom . It consists of a street course 4242 meters long and twelve meters wide and a 1.5 mile (2.5 km) long tri-oval . The area has a spectator capacity of 60,000. The word "Phakisa" means hurry up in Sotho .

From 1999 to 2004 the track hosted the Grand Prix of South Africa as part of the motorcycle world championship .

In 2014 , a run for the Superbike and Supersport World Championship will be held on the track for the first time .

A race track, the Goldfields Raceway, was located in the same place .

Winner of the motorcycle world championship races

year	125 cc	250 cc	500 cc
1999	Gianluigi Scalvini ( Aprilia )	Valentino Rossi ( Aprilia )	Max Biaggi ( Yamaha )
2000	Arnaud Vincent ( Aprilia )	Shin'ya Nakano ( Yamaha )	Garry McCoy ( Yamaha )
2001	Yōichi Ui ( Derbi )	Daijirō Katō ( Honda )	Valentino Rossi ( Honda )
2002	Manuel Poggiali ( Gilera )	Marco Melandri ( Aprilia )	Tōru Ukawa ( Honda )
year	125 cc	250 cc	MotoGP
2003	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )	Manuel Poggiali ( Aprilia )	Sete Gibernau ( Honda )
2004	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )

References

Web links

Commons : Phakisa Freeway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Isabelle Larivière: FIM Superbike & Supersport World Championships - FIM Superstock 1000 cc Cup 2014 provisional calendar, 29 November. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Www.fim-live.com, November 29, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 6, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
2. ↑ About (Phakisa Freeway) phakisa.com

Coordinates: 27 ° 54 ′ 16 ″  S , 26 ° 42 ′ 45 ″  E