The Alexandra Park Street Circuit was a temporary

race track A race track (racetrack, racing track or racing circuit) is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Race tracks are also us ...

between the late 1940s and 1953 on streets within the town of

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. This street track was no longer used after the opening of the permanent

Roy Hesketh Circuit The Roy Hesketh Circuit was a racing circuit located on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal. It was named after South African racing driver Roy Hesketh, who died in the World War II, Second World War. Doug Aldridge, Colin Dove, O ...

. The track was long.

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