Killarney Motor Racing Complex
Address: Western Province Motor Club Killarney Race Track no 6 Potsdam Road Table View 7439
(South African F1)
- 33.82371318.529089Koordinaten: 33 ° 49 ' 25 "S, 18 ° 31' 45" E
The Killarney Motor Racing Circuit is a motorsport race track opened in 1951 in the South African Cape Town in the Western Cape. It is situated in Milnerton Blaauwberg district in the borough. The 3.267 km long route is now part of Killarney Motor Racing Complex.
History
The first sprint race in 1949 at the Potsdam Road, the road between Cape Town and Malmesbury, organized. In September 1951 started right next to the main road the first race on a first permanent race track. The 1.06 km long route consisted of a quasi- triangular route with a connected ending in a hairpin bend passage.
Just one year later the line was extended to an arc to 1.85 km. In 1954, the route to the still existing " Cape Town Corner " has been expanded to now 2.69 km, the route was still counterclockwise.
The track owners decided in 1960, Killarney expand on the international FIA standards, the track was once again extended to the now unused 3.267 km and from then traveled in a clockwise direction. On November 26, 1960, the first race started on the new " Grand Prix " track.
On 17 December 1960, the first time was held in Killarney in the South African Formula 1 championship of the Cape Grand Prix. This was part of the " South African Medium ". Here also the teams of the Formula 1 World Championship could participate; they were set automatically and had to be, unlike the South African Competitors who do not qualify for the race participants. At the beginning of the 1960s, especially many British Formula 1 teams contested this race as a test race. However, some of them had a detached attitude towards the circuit. Stirling Moss and Joakim Bonnier, winner and runner-up of the first Formula 1 race at the Killarney circuit were, for example, the view, the route was too slow, too narrow and do not have sufficiently long straights, so that the cars would barely reach their top speed.
Development since 2000
2005 following the acquisition of Dunlop Dunlop bridge was demolished; the bridge had been 45 years at the end of the start and finish straight. 2008, an additional new pit area, this time in the direction of travel left, built. The Killarney Motor Racing Complex consists today of the former Grand Prix circuit, a 1/4-Meile-Dragsterrennstrecke, a go-kart facility and a motocross track.