Valencia Street Circuit
The sporting event of the year returns this summer to Valencia. In June the city will be holding the motor-world’s main event: Formula 1. A spectacular urban circuit, more than 5 kilometers long with 25 curves, will convert the City into the perfect stage for the world’s best pilots.
The roar of engines, exclusive designs, spectacular curves, the port... this is Formula 1, this is Valencia.
It’s time to come on board the sporting event of the year.
The Circuit
The circuit where the Formula 1 Telefonica Grand Prix of Europe will be held is a street circuit around the Juan Carlos 1 Marina, which was the base for the 32nd America’s Cup, the most important sailing competition in the world.
The layout will also enter in the area currently undergoing expansion from the city itself towards the port area and will link two of the great maritime avenues.
Under these premises a layout that guarantees the safety of the participants was created, that would not disrupt normal life of the local population too much, that would be completely sustainable and that would have a careful impact of the wellbeing of the Valencians.
With that in mind, the circuit will be set up and taken down on avenues and streets for conventional use and will be surfaced according to the indications of the International Automobile Federation.
Track layout
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.
Total track length 5.473,5 metres
Estimated lap time 1min 37seconds
Estimated maximum speed 323,3 km/h
Estimated minimum speed 95,2 km/h
Estimated average speed 201,3 Km/h
Length of pit lane 657 metres
Length of service roads 3.824 metres
Length of private access service roads 1.828 metres
Minimum width on home straight 15 metres
Minimum width on rest of track 12 metres
Number of turns 25
Left turns 11
Right turns 14
