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Racing tracks with 'dual carriageways'

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    Carlos Sainz Jnr, Toro Rosso, Baku City Circuit, 2016

    Seeing the ‘dual carriageway’ section on the Baku circuit made me wonder how many other circuits have something similar?

    The first example that sprang to mind is the Norisring, where F3 and the DTM are racing this weekend, but I’m sure there are more. Here’s the Norisring 20 years ago in the spectacular ITC days:

    #322720
    Mathers
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    One of the madness tracks I’ve ever seen is the Palanga circuit in Lithuania: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palanga_circuit

    It hosts a 1000km endurance race every year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_kilometrų_lenktynės

    The track doesn’t have complex runoff area layouts or special barriers – they literally race down one carriageway, turn round at a gap in the barrier, race down the other dual carriageway, take the next junction (having passed a motorway services) and start again.

    This video gives an indication of what it’s like: (featuring the Gelzinis brothers of Porsche Carrera Cup GB fame and many, many women)

    #322721
    paulgilb
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    One famous example was the AVUS in Berlin, which hosted the 1959 German GP. The circuit was basically a long section of dual carriageway with a hairpin at one end and a steep banking at the other.

    #322733
    Craig Woollard
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    This video doesn’t really do it much justice, but Cadwell Park:

    #322754
    Bullfrog
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    The hairpin at the Long Beach Grand Prix – some layouts did it again at the other end of the circuit
    1980 Long Beach GP hairpin

    #322788
    hunocsi
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    Old Monza with the double loop comes to mind, although both lanes went the same way there.

    #322789
    KaIIe
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    The Helsinki track (that hosted DTM/ITC, FIA GT and F3000 in 1995-1997) had something like that.

    Start of the 1997 race:

    The three different layouts: http://theracingline.net/racingcircuits/racingcircuits/Finland/Helsinki.html

    #322790
    the_sigman
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    The Punta del Este Formula E tracks has a dual carriageway.

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    @Mathers Had forgotten about Palanga! Craziness.

    #322891
    sam3110
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    Has there ever been a racing game that has recreated the old Monza layout? I’d love to drive around it, and obviously that’s not going to happen in real life.

    The Berlin E-Prix had a dual carriageway, the failed Qingdao Indycar circuit too, as did the second Edmonton layout

    #322902
    hunocsi
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    @sam3110 I’m pretty sure I saw the old Monza downloadable for rFactor (as pretty much all tracks are :) ). The version with the banking may come under the name Brianza, not Monza.

    OK, just googled that, it was created by the game’s makers in the first place so it should be good, I probably tried this before then: https://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Brianza

    #323080
    KaIIe
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    @sam3110: Grand Prix Legends and rFactor both have that layout.

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    Another one just occurred to me – IndyCar’s short-lived Baltimore circuit:

    #323185
    HUHHII
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    Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with its hairpin.

    #323188
    Adam Blocker
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    @huhhii The hairpin at CGV is not a dual carriageway. During the most of the year it is just a two-lane road that goes around Parc Jean Drapeau.

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