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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.18.2012 - 8:52 pm
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Excluding the pseudo-related to the sport Indianapolis 500 this street
course was the closed Formula ever got to running an oval track.

First used in 1921 AVUS was a monster set up by taking a stretch of what
later became the Autobahn and creating a race track from it. The track
used the highway to make up most of the course with only a hairpin turn
at one end and originally a large banked corner at the other. It was
pretty much just two long, fast straightaways. Eventually the banked
turn was dismantled in 1967, making room for a regular intersection, and
replaced with a flat one. As the years continued the long straights
proved unpopular to drivers and the course was shortened several times
with its final length only 2.6 km / 1.6 miles.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall traffic increased on the road and
closing off the highway for races at AVUS became very difficult and
given the remaining danger of the high-speed course, British touring car
driver Kieth O'dor died in high-speed wreck here in 1995 and the track's
DTM races frequently saw pretty wild accidents, the decision was made to
phase it out. The final major races were held in 1998 with a farewell
race feturing some vererans the following year and AVUS was basically
replaced by the newly-constructed EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Brandenburg
thereafter.

Today the portion of the road that contained the race track is part of
Bundesautobahn 115. Some elements of the old track still remain
including a round tower used by race control that to this day still
bears large advertisements for Mercedes-Benz and Bosch; it's now a
restaurant and motel. A wooden grandstand at the former track is
protected as a historic monument.


  2.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  05.20.2013 - 7:12 am
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If I remember right, the DTM guys could lap the final version of this
track in about one minute...


  3.   NoLongerAnonymous posted:
  06.19.2013 - 12:42 pm
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Martinsville on steroids.


  4.   Anonymous posted:
  09.09.2015 - 1:19 am
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The huge brick banked turn was nicknamed "The Wall of Death"


  5.   Jordan posted:
  02.07.2018 - 9:46 pm
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The AVUS race in 1937 didn't run to Grand Prix regulations, so it was
basically anything goes. Both Auto Union and Mercedes Benz raced radical
streamlined bodies on their 600hp grand prix cars resulting in speeds
well in excess of 200 mph. The race average speed was 172 mph, which
wouldn't be achieved at Indy until the 1970 s.


  6.   German500 posted:
  06.29.2019 - 4:17 pm
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I know you have no "Ü" in English. But replacing Ü with U looks weird. I
ask you to make a "Ue" out of the "U". This is the official
transcription of the German "Ü".

And it should be spelled Übungs like Verkehrs with binding "s"

THX


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