Photo: Marrakech Grand Prix

Morocco street race track layout revealed

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The FIA World Touring Car Championship will visit Morocco next season. The city Marrakech will host a street race on May 1-3. The circuit layout has been revealed. The track has been designed by D3 Motorsport Development and measures 4.540 kilometers.

D3 Motorsport Development has experience of constructing other street races. Their most famous one is the street circuit in Surfers Paradise, Australia.

The circuit construction in numbers:

• Thousands of direct and indirect jobs
created
• 1.2 million man-hours over 100 days in
construction
• 2550 FIA-standard impact blocks weighing
4 tons each
• 10,2 km of heavy-duty debris fencing
installed by specialized teams
• 8 km of security fencing
• 5 pedestrian bridges
• 14 hard-wall portable buildings
• 19 temporary structures for teams and
garages, equipments, media centers and
press, medical sites, emergency and
security
• Jumbo screens and hi-fi positions all along
the circuit.

Circuit data:

• Marrakech Street Circuit
• Length: 4540m (in track axis)
• Width: 5.6 18.4m
• Latitude GPS: 31°35’21.2”
• Longitude GPS: 07°59’15.4”
• Race direction: Anti clockwise
• Corners: 16 (7 left, 9 right)
• Straight sections: 4
• Min. length 105m
• Max. length 990m
• Ascent: max. 1% in 3m
• Descent: max. 1% in 3m
• Difference in elevation: 3m
• Sea altitude: 451m average
• Corporate suites: 65
• Grand stands: 12.232 seats per day.

Click here for a high resolution picture of the circuit layout!