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Eastern Creek International Raceway, Australia

January 2nd, 2008 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Eastern Creek International Raceway is a motorsports circuit located in Eastern Creek, New South Wales (a western suburb of Sydney), Australia and is operated by the Australian Racing Drivers Club.

The Eastern Creek International Raceway played hosted the Australian round of the A1 Grand Prix in November 2005, and is scheduled to host an event in the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season on 4 February 2007.

The track is used for national Australian races for cars, bikes and superkarts. Eastern Creek formerly hosted the final round of the annual V8 Supercar championship. It was removed from the series calendar in 2005 but was recently reinstated to host a round of the 2007 series.

From 1991 to 1996, Eastern Creek held the Australian round of the 500cc GP series (now Moto GP), losing it back to Phillip Island, the place it took it from.

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Circuit Park Zandvoort, Netherlands

January 2nd, 2008 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Circuit Park Zandvoort is a motorsport race track located in the dunes near the town of Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line.

Although there were plans for races at Zandvoort before World War II, the first street race was held on June 3, 1939. A real circuit was not built until after the war, mainly designed by John Hugenholtz.

The circuit was inaugurated on August, 7, 1948. Next year, in 1949 the circuit hosted the Zandvoort Grand Prix. The following year, the race was called the Dutch Grand Prix, and it was included in the Formula One World Championship in 1952. It remained on the F1 calendar for 30 out of the next 34 years. In 1985, the Dutch Grand Prix was held for the last time. The company that commercially ran the circuit (CENAV) went out of business, marking the end of Circuit Zandvoort. The track, owned by the municipality of Zandvoort, was not used for some time and part of the grounds and approximately half of the track was sold in 1987 to Vendorado, a Bungalow park developer at that time. A plan to save the remaining track was made by a group of people and companies. Circuit Park Zandvoort was born, and the track was remodeled to an interim Club Circuit of 2.6 kilometers (1.6 mi) in the summer of 1989.

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Karting gauge, Bydgoszcz, Poland

November 27th, 2007 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Karting gauge in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

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Exact place of the crash by Robert Kubica during the 2007 Canadian F1 Grand Prix, Canada

June 17th, 2007 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Exact place of the spectacular crash by Robert Kubica during the 2007 Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Canada.

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The Circuit Zolder (Circuit Terlaemen), Belgium

June 17th, 2007 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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The Circuit Zolder, also known as Circuit Terlaemen, is an undulating 3.977 km (2.622-mile) motorsport race track in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

Built in 1963, Zolder hosted the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix on 10 separate occasions in the 1970s and 1980s. Unfortunately, Zolder is probably best remembered as the place Gilles Villeneuve lost his life during qualifying at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix, an event that signified the beginning of the end for the Flemish circuit as a Formula One venue (although the accident was not caused by problems with the track). The Belgian Grand Prix was held here only once more before switching to driver-favorite Spa Francorchamps which has hosted the Belgian Grand Prix nearly every year since.

On two occasions has Zolder hosted for the World Championship Road Cycling in 1969 and 2002 and the World Championship Cyclo Cross in 1970 and 2002.

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Kart racing track, Wroclaw, Poland

May 9th, 2007 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Kart racing track at. Rakietora Str. in Wroclaw, Poland

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Go-cart racing track, Bulgaria

March 1st, 2007 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Go-cart racing track in near Sofiya in Bulgaria

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Car on rallycross track, Torun, Poland

February 27th, 2007 / / Links: Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth / Nearest places
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Car on rallycross track in Torun, Poland

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