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  1.   Tay posted:
  11.27.2012 - 12:13 pm
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Unique track in that it utilizes city streets but is a permanent course,
not a temporary one.


  2.   Biscuits In A Red Bull posted:
  01.21.2013 - 2:53 pm
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Goodbye, and good riddance. Provided only 1 good GP, but 1 two time
winner (Vettel), who should really have been 3 times winner if not for a
car failure whilst dominating the 2012 edition.


  3.   Anthony posted:
  02.14.2013 - 11:00 pm
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One of the dullest most unimaginative circuits ever conceived. Screw Las
Vegas that place was interesting enough but Valencia was so bad. No-one
will be sad to see the end of this "track".


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.08.2018 - 12:27 pm
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Financial issues ultimately doomed this track. There were plans for this
track to alternate the Spanish Grand Prix with Catalunya but it fell
through. Today there are still ghostly remainders of this track in place
even though the circuit is gone. The ghostly painted marks on the
asphalt that were made for the track remain in place today as does some
of the duct tape the teams put down to mark their pit stalls.

This track is raced around the harbor built in Valencia for the city to
host the 2007 America's Cup yacht races. Spain has never won the
America's Cup, or even made the finals, but the 2003 races were won by a
Swiss team. Since Switzerland is landlocked it held a competitive
process to decide who would host the next races and Valencia won. The
Swiss team from the Societe Nautique de Geneve won again in 2007 so the
harbor hosted the races again in 2010 with an American team from the
Golden Gate Yacht Club winning and relocating the races to San Francisco
for 2013.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.08.2018 - 12:33 pm
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One of the highlights of this track was a 140 meter/460 foot long white
swing bridge the cars raced over between turns 9 and 10. Today that
bridge remains in place but it has been opened and left that way
permanently.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.01.2020 - 8:01 am
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The pit paddock for this race was a set up inside a fish market. The
swing bridge section was also asphalted shut during the F1 races here.


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