Description of the Track Layout and its Route through the Port of Valencia

The Valencia Formula 1 street circuit is framed by the Grao area and more specifically will pass through the inner docks of the port and around the streets of the future neighbourhood that will eventually be built between the railway track, the port and the old bed of the River Turia.

Despite being a street track, its specifications and safety are the same as at a permanent track. The track length is nearly five and a half kilometres long and the width will be at least 14 metres wide including two hard shoulders of asphalt agglomerate identical to those of the track, each a metre wide on each side. Likewise runoff zones will be accounted for on the turns. The asphalt surface that will be used will be made up of modified bitumen with strong resistance to horizontal traction as applied to the surfaces of racing tracks. It will also have the usual drainage systems and in difference to the rest of the city streets it will not have any manhole or drain covers.

The start straight and the pits are located in the former port stalls. The layout of the track continues around the docks in a clockwise direction on the perimeter road until it reaches the point known as "Grua Cabria" where it approaches the cliff of the port passing in front of the America's Cup bases of Luna Rossa Challenge and BMW Oracle Racing before returning to the road with a left turn around the base of the Alinghi team.

The layout then moves on to the "Paseo de las Palmeras" before reaching the esplanade prior to the North Marina where through a series of slow turns it has a perpendicular approach to the dock access canal which it crosses over a swing bridge.

Once it reaches the South Marina area the track passes near to the edge of the quay following the curve described by it and where it then passes by the place where the current lifting bridge is located next to the wall that separates the sports marina from the commercial port.

After passing by the fish market, the track leaves the dock area through the "Astilleros" (shipyard) gates and heads straight on to the bridge with the same name, but before reaching it, there is a 90º turn to the right to enter the new urban area of Grao. It is here that the track borders the old River Turia bed until it reaches the railway line where there is a hairpin bend in front of the Grao cemetery to take the track north to the continuation of the Avenida de Francia.

When it reaches the new avenue, it runs down the right hand side, crosses the roundabout that links this neighbourhood to the Las Moreras neighbourhood and then passes through a series of "S" bends to negotiate some existing buildings that are still in use in the area. Finally, the track crosses the Ingeniero Manuel Soto Avenue and with a turn to the left enters the home straight now within the port area.