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Dundrod Circuit is a motorsport street circuit used for the RAC Tourist Trophy for sports cars between 1950 and 1955 and for the motorcycle Ulster Grand Prix from 1953 to the present day.
It is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The circuit is defined by steep grass banks and equally stout whitewashed stone posts at farm entrances, with telegraph poles and other sundry lethal roadside paraphernalia laced inbetween.
There are crests and dips, a tight hairpin, curving and undulating straights and one terrifying downhill section (Deer's Leap) with the right-hand bend at Cochranstown waiting at the bottom.
A truly historic road circuit.
Length: 11.910 km (7.401 miles)
Turns: 25
Lap record: 3:18.870,
133.977 mph (Bruce Anstey, Suzuki, 2010)
Tourist Trophy Lap Record:
4:42.0, 94.67 mph
Mike Hawthorn, Jaguar D-Type
Stirling Moss rounds Lindsay's hairpin during the 1955 Tourist Trophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundrod_Circuit
http://www.grandprix.com/columns/maurice-hamilton/dundrod.html
http://www.sportscardigest.com/history-of-the-tourist-trophy-race-profile/2/
It is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The circuit is defined by steep grass banks and equally stout whitewashed stone posts at farm entrances, with telegraph poles and other sundry lethal roadside paraphernalia laced inbetween.
There are crests and dips, a tight hairpin, curving and undulating straights and one terrifying downhill section (Deer's Leap) with the right-hand bend at Cochranstown waiting at the bottom.
A truly historic road circuit.
Length: 11.910 km (7.401 miles)
Turns: 25
Lap record: 3:18.870,
133.977 mph (Bruce Anstey, Suzuki, 2010)
Tourist Trophy Lap Record:
4:42.0, 94.67 mph
Mike Hawthorn, Jaguar D-Type
Stirling Moss rounds Lindsay's hairpin during the 1955 Tourist Trophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundrod_Circuit
http://www.grandprix.com/columns/maurice-hamilton/dundrod.html
http://www.sportscardigest.com/history-of-the-tourist-trophy-race-profile/2/
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