Salzburgring

Salzburgring

Address: Salzburgring 1, 5325 Plainfeld
Plainfeld , State of Salzburg , Austria
Route type:	Permanent racetrack
Owner:	State of Salzburg
Operator:	IGMS
Start of building:	1968
Opening:	September 1969
Time zone:	UTC + 1 ( CET )
Track layout
Route data
Important events:	WTCC ; TCR; Histo cup; Electric love; Porsche Sprint Challenge
Route length:	4.255  km (2.64  mi )
www.salzburgring.com

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 21.6 "  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 59.2"  E

The Salzburgring is a permanent race track opened in 1969 in the so-called Nesslgraben between Koppl and Plainfeld near Salzburg in Austria. It was built at the same time as the Österreichring .

The ring

Its route length is 4255 meters . Two long straights, with the back straight to the start and finish straight rising slightly, as well as the elongated curve above the paddock that adjoins this straight , made this track a very fast race track. The Belgian Werner Daemen achieved an average speed of 189.299 km / h on his BMW S 1000 RR as part of the IDM in 2009 , with which he holds the superbike lap record.

The steadily expanding safety requirements for motor sport events have made several modifications necessary over the years. Among other things, so-called chicanes were created to reduce the speed, as well as run-off zones , which was very difficult and expensive due to the basin location of the ring.

The natural grandstands are unique and, thanks to their location above the racetrack, allow particularly interesting race observations, especially in the section above the paddock, from where you can see both straights and the long paddock curve.

Route information

• Route length 4.255 meters
• Turns 12 (6 right and 6 left turns)
• Straight 4 (the longest is the start-finish straight at 750 m)
• Incline maximum 3.8%
• Gradient maximum 1.8%
• Height difference approx. 25 meters
• 648.3 to 670.6 meters above sea level
• Boxing 31

Sketch of the Salzburgring area

The history

• 1968 start of construction
• 1969 Opening with a combined car and motorcycle race
• 1970 First Austrian Grand Prix for motorcycles
• 1971 First FIM motorcycle world championship run
• 2012–2014 World Touring Car Championship
• 2013 First Electric Love Festival which in 2018 brought over 180,000 visitors to the ring
• 2019 50th anniversary

The events

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SmartyCam onboard video from the Salzburgring. The video shows an excerpt from the last race lap.

WTCC launch, May 25, 2013

On September 21, 1969, the Salzburgring was awarded the 1st Int. Salzburg Prize opened. On August 30, 1970, six days before his death in training for the Formula 1 GP in Monza, Jochen Rindt drove his last race here - a Formula 2 run, which was the foundation of Formula 1 at the time . In the 1970s, the Salzburgring was the venue for several Formula 2 European championship races. Formula 1 stars and world champions such as Graham Hill , Emerson Fittipaldi , Jacky Ickx , John Watson , Mike Hailwood and many others competed here. At that time, the European Touring Car Championship also made several guest appearances at the Salzburgring. From 1971 to 1994 there were regular races for the motorcycle world championship . The competitions with drivers like Giacomo Agostini on MV Agusta and Toni Mang took place in front of up to 100,000 spectators.

Between 1975 and 1994 there was eight " Oldtimer Grand Prix " for historic motorcycles and automobiles, which attracted several hundred participants from all over the world (including Juan Manuel Fangio , Niki Lauda , John Surtees , Luigi Taveri ). This event then had to be discontinued due to stricter noise protection regulations in the federal state of Salzburg . Since 2004 there has been another classic car event in memory of the only Austrian motorcycle world champion Rupert Hollaus .

The number of major motorsport events (once the Super Touring Car Cup , Motorcycle World Championship) is limited to five per year. There are also other events such as vehicle presentations from automobile manufacturers, driver training courses and club meetings. Among other things, the international roller ski competition “Skate the Ring” has been taking place on the Salzburgring since 2010. The Salzburgring also hosted the Frequency Music Festival until 2008 and the Electric Love Festival since 2013 .

The Salzburgring is self-financing and without any subsidies .

The future

Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz had expressed interest in buying the racetrack. After it became known in September 2015 that Mateschitz was buying the racetrack for 3 million euros, the corresponding contract was signed in January 2016. At the beginning of July 2016, however, it became known that the sale to Dietrich Mateschitz had failed.

The state of Salzburg is still the owner of the site, the IGMS “Internationaler Gemeinnütziger Motorsportverein Salzburgring” is the operator.

Requests about MotoGP's return to the Salzburgring are averted on the operator's Facebook page.

Web links

Commons : Salzburgring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Salzburgring  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Official website of the Salzburgring

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source www.motograndprix.de
2. ↑ Motorcycle literature and image archive Prof. Dr. Helmut Krackowizer
3. ↑ Skate the Ring on September 18, 2011! , Homepage of the Salzburgring, accessed on September 21, 2011.
4. ^ Ruben Zimmermann: Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz before buying the Salzburgring. In: motorsport-total.com. September 17, 2015, accessed March 19, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten: Red Bull Boss Mateschitz will buy the Salzburgring. In: salzburg.com. September 16, 2015, accessed March 19, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Dietrich Mateschitz buys Salzburgring. In: krone.at. January 20, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Mateschitz doesn't buy Salzburgring after all. In: motorsport-magazin.com. July 1, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Markus Zörweg: MotoGP Christmas wish: We want these 7 routes back. In: Motorsport Magazin. Motorsport Magazine, accessed December 24, 2018 . 
9. ↑ IGMS: A look back at the glorious times of the Motorcycle World Championship! Retrieved December 26, 2018 .