Brno
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Automotodrom Brno
656-98 Brno
PO Box 98
Brno
Czechoslovakia
Tel: 0042 5762345 Fax: 0042 5762131
Track length: 3.352 miles
Originally an 18.109 mile/29.1 km road circuit, the old pits and barriers of which can
still be seen, Brno is now a more bland purpose built motorsport complex
built to attract modern formula racing. Called the Masaryk Circuit after the first
president of Czechoslovakia, it opened on the 28th September 1930, and hosted races
throughout the 1930s. The first alterations to the original
circuit came in 1949, when a connecting road from Zebetin to Popuvky was
built, reducing the length to 11.061 miles, and just to confuse everyone, the
racing direction was changed from anti-clockwise to clockwise. In 1964, a
link road bypassing Zebetin was used, reducing the length to 8.663 miles, followed
by a further shortening to 6.789 miles in 1975 when a new road was built to
link the start to Kohoutovice. This circuit was still used by the European
Touring Car Championship until the new Automotodrom was built in 1986, and
first opened in 1987.