gps coordinates / 47.2234445,14.7606959
Driving Center Red Bull Ring Austria Virtual Racing
Red Bull Ring, 8724 Spielberg, Austria
Some of the track was just road with little to no protection at all, even up to the final Austrian Grand Prix there in 1987, a race that had to be restarted twice because of two progressively more serious accidents both caused by the narrow pit straight in a similar manner to the 1985 race when the race was stopped after one lap following a start line shunt that had taken out three cars including championship leader Michele Alboreto's Ferrari and local driver Gerhard Berger's Arrows-BMW. In practice for the 1987 race McLaren's Stefan Johansson narrowly avoided serious injury or worse when at over 150 mph he collided with a deer that had made its way onto the track while Johansson was cresting a blind brow before the Jochen Rindt Kurve behind the pits.
Gps Coordinates / 47.2231842,14.7609801
The race circuit was founded as Österreichring (translation: Austrian Circuit) and hosted the Austrian Grand Prix for 18 consecutive years, from 1970 to 1987. It was later shortened, rebuilt and renamed the A1-Ring, and it hosted the Austrian Grand Prix again from 1997 to 2003. When Formula One outgrew the circuit, a plan was drawn up to extend the layout. Parts of the circuit, including the pits and main grandstand, were demolished, but construction work was stopped and the circuit remained unusable for several years before it was purchased by Red Bull's Dietrich Mateschitz and rebuilt.
Link Gps Location Gps / Link Gps 47.2200593 / Link Gps 47.2192862 / Link Gps 47.2208089
Gps Coordinates / 47.2200593,14.7636771 / 47.2192862,14.7613217 / 47.2208089,14.7694476
Originally built in 1969 to replace the bland and bumpy Zeltweg Airfield circuit located just across the street, the Österreichring track was situated in the Styrian mountains and it was a visually spectacular and scenic circuit. Although narrow at 33 feet in all places, the track was very fast, every corner was a fast sweeper and was taken in no lower than third gear in a five-speed gearbox and fourth in a six-speed gearbox.
Link Gps Location Gps / Link Gps 47.222446 / Link Gps 47.2228468 / Link Gps 47.2231354
Gps Coordinates / 47.222446,14.7702478 / 47.2228468,14.7700281 / 47.2231354,14.7637639
It had noticeable changes in elevation during the course of a lap, 65 metres from lowest to highest point. Like most fast circuits it was a hard circuit on engines but more difficult on tires, because of the speeds being so consistently high. Many considered the Österreichring to be dangerous, especially the Bosch Kurve, a 180-degree banked downhill right-hand corner with almost no run-off area which, by 1986 when turbos pushed Formula One engine power to upwards of 1,400 bhp in qualifying, saw Derek Warwick speed trapped at 214 mph in his BMW powered Brabham BT55 on the run to the Bosch Kurve.
Link Location Gps / Link Gps 47.2226239 / Link Gps 47.2192335 / Link Gps 47.2198982
Gps Coordinates / 47.2226239,14.7617369 / 47.2192335,14.7621522 / 47.2198982,14.7646301
Triple World Champion and long time hero of the home crowd Niki Lauda is the only Austrian driver to win his home Grand Prix. He won the 1984 Austrian Grand Prix at the Österreichring driving a McLaren-TAG Porsche. Lauda went on to win his third and final championship in 1984, beating his teammate Alain Prost by the smallest margin in F1 history, only half a point. He announced his permanent retirement from driving at the circuit before the 1985 race.
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