Mugello Circuit

Mugello Circuit (Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello) is a race track in Scarperia e San Piero, Tuscany, Italy. The circuit length is 5.245 km (3.259 mi). It has 15 turns and a 1.141 km (0.709 mi) long straight.[1] The circuit stadium stands have a capacity of 50,000.

For the region, see Mugello.

Mugello Circuit
LocationScarperia e San Piero, Tuscany, Italy
Time zoneGMT+1
Coordinates43°59′51″N 11°22′19″E
FIA Grade1
Major eventsFormula One
Tuscan Grand Prix (2020)
FIA Formula 2 Championship (2020)
FIA Formula 3 Championship (2020)
MotoGP
Italian motorcycle Grand Prix, Tuscan motorcycle Grand Prix, A1GP, DTM, WSBK
Closed course (1974–present)
SurfaceAsphalt
Length5.245 km (3.259 mi)
Turns15
Race lap record1:18.833 ( Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 2020, Formula One)
Road course (1919–1970)
SurfaceAsphalt/Concrete
Length66.2 km (41.3 mi)
Turns400+
Race lap record29:51.100 ( Arturo Merzario, Abarth Corse, Abarth 2000 SP, 1970)
Websitewww.mugellocircuit.it

Grand Prix motorcycle racing host an annual event at the circuit (for MotoGP and smaller classes). In 2007 and 2008 the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters held an annual event. The track is owned by Scuderia Ferrari, which uses it for Formula One testing. The first race of the A1GP 2008–09 season was originally planned to be held at the Mugello circuit on 21 September 2008. However, the race had to be cancelled due to the delay in building the new chassis for the new race cars.[2]

The circuit hosted its first ever Formula One race on 13 September 2020, named the Tuscan Grand Prix, as part of the season being restructured due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] This Grand Prix was the 1000th Grand Prix for Scuderia Ferrari.

History

Road race (1920–1970)
The start-finish line of historic road circuit (1955).

Road races were held on public streets around Mugello from the 1920s. Giuseppe Campari won there in 1920 and 1921, and Emilio Materassi took victories in 1925, 1926 and 1928. The Mugello GP was revived in 1955 and from the 1964 to 1969 as a Targa Florio-like road race consisting of eight laps of 66.2 km each, including the Passo della Futa. The anticlockwise track passed the towns of San Piero a Sieve, Scarperia, Violla, Firenzuola, Selva, San Lucia. It counted towards the 1965, 1966 and 1967 World Sportscar Championship season. The last WC race was won[4] by Udo Schütz and Gerhard Mitter in a Porsche 910. After two Porsche wins, 1968 saw the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 of Luciano Bianchi, Nanni Galli and Nino Vaccarella prevail over the Porsche driven by Rico Steinemann and Jo Siffert. In 1969, Arturo Merzario won with an Abarth 2000, and he won again in 1970 with the same car, where Abarth finished 1–2–3 with Leo Kinnunen and Gijs van Lennep finishing second and third respectively.

The 1970 event brought about the end of the 66 km Mugello public road circuit; a seven-month-old baby was killed when local racer Spartaco Dini crashed his Alfa Romeo GTA into a group of people at the village of Firenzuola during a private test there, when the roads were open to the public (the roads were only closed on race day and for qualifying). Four other people, including two young children, were seriously injured. Although there had only been one previous fatality at the original Mugello circuit (that of Günther Klass in 1967), the incident badly damaged the event's reputation, and the 1970 race turned out to be the last one held on the public road circuit, which was won once again by Merzario. After the incident, Dini spent two months in prison, and after his time served he left Italy and did not return for many years.

Permanent circuit (1974–present)
The main straight of permanent circuit (2011).

The present-day closed Mugello circuit was constructed in 1973 and opened in 1974, about 5 km east from the easternmost part of the original road circuit. The circuit was used for the in-season test during the 2012 Formula One season, by all teams except HRT. An unofficial track record of 1:21.035 was set by Romain Grosjean during the test.[5] The track was praised by Mark Webber, who stated that he "did 10 dry laps today around Mugello, which is the same as doing 1000 laps around Abu Dhabi track in terms of satisfaction".[6] Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel said “unfortunately we don’t have this track on the calendar. It’s an incredible circuit with a lot of high-speed corners”.[7] Vitaly Petrov was however critical of the decision to test at Mugello, claiming the circuit was "unsafe".[8]

On 10 July 2020, it was announced that the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix on the circuit would be the ninth race in the 2020 Formula One calendar, marking the 1000th Grand Prix for Ferrari.[9]

Winners of the Mugello Grand Prix

The winners of the Mugello Grand Prix for cars (1919–1967: Circuito del Mugello, 1968–present: Gran Premio del Mugello) are:[10][11][12][13][14][15]

Winners on the closed circuit (5.245 km/3.259 mi)
Year Driver Constructor Class Report
2000 Ricardo Sperafico Lola Formula 3000 Report
1998–1999 Not held
1997 Ricardo Zonta Lola Formula 3000 Report
1996 Ricardo Zonta Lola Report
1992–1995 Not held
1991 Alessandro Zanardi Reynard Formula 3000 Report
1987–1990 Not held
1986 Pierluigi Martini Ralt Formula 3000 Report
1985 Not held
1984 Mike Thackwell Ralt Formula Two Report
1983 Jonathan Palmer Ralt Report
1982 Corrado Fabi March Report
1981 Corrado Fabi March Report
1980 Brian Henton Toleman Report
1979 Brian Henton March Report
1978 Derek Daly Chevron Report
1977 Bruno Giacomelli March Report
1976 Jean-Pierre Jabouille Elf Report
1975 Maurizio Flammini March Report
1974 Patrick Depailler March Report

Winners on the road circuit (66.2 km/41.3 mi)

Note: The 1926 race was held on the Cascine circuit.[16][17]

Year Driver Constructor Class Report
1970 Arturo Merzario Abarth Sports car Report
1969 Arturo Merzario Abarth Report
1968 Lucien Bianchi
Nino Vaccarella
Nanni Galli		 Alfa Romeo Report
1967 Gerhard Mitter
Udo Schütz		 Porsche Report
1966 Gerhard Koch
Jochen Neerpasch		 Porsche Report
1965 Mario Casoni
Antonio Nicodemi		 Ferrari Report
1964 Gianni Bulgari Porsche Report
1956–1963 Not held
1955 Umberto Maglioli Ferrari Sports car Report
1930–1954 Not held
1929 Gastone Brilli-Peri Talbot Grand Prix Report
1928 Emilio Materassi Talbot Formula Libre Report
1927 Not held
1926 Emilio Materassi Itala Formula Libre Report
1925 Emilio Materassi Itala Report
1924 Giuseppe Morandi OM Report
1923 Gastone Brilli-Peri Steyr Report
1922 Alfieri Maserati Isotta Fraschini Report
1921 Giuseppe Campari Alfa Romeo Report
1920 Giuseppe Campari Alfa Romeo Report

Lap records
CategoryTimeDriverCar/BikeEventRef.
F11:18.833Lewis HamiltonMercedes-AMG F1 W11 EQ Performance2020 Tuscan Grand Prix[18]
FIA F21:33.295Dan TicktumDallara F2 20182020 Mugello Sprint Race[19]
Group C1:45.79Riccardo PatreseLancia LC21985 1000 km of Mugello
DTM1:45.273Jamie GreenMercedes-Benz C-Class2008 DTM Mugello[20]
F21:43.92Mike ThackwellRalt RH6 Honda1984 Mugello Grand Prix
MotoGP1:47.639Marc MarquezHonda RC213V2013 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
GT11:49.112Andrea MonterminiSaleen S7-R2006 FIA GT Mugello 500km[21]
Moto21:51.881Álex MárquezKalex-Triumph2019 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
Moto31:56.628Fabio Di GiannantonioHonda NSF250RW2018 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

See also

References
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  21. http://www.automobilsport.com/fia-gt-zakspeed-saleen-mugello-montermini-sascha-bert-jarek-janis-vitaphone-maserati-phoenix-racing-aston-martin-salo-aguas-ebimotors-porsche---14953.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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