Cape Town Street Circuit was a

street circuit A street circuit is a motorsport race track, racing circuit composed of temporarily closed-off public roads of a city, town or village, used in motor racing, motor races. Airport Runway, runways and Taxiway, taxiways are also sometimes part of ...

laid out on the city streets of

Cape Town Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...

, South Africa. It hosted the Cape Town ePrix from 2023 Formula E season.

History

The track was initially planned to be included in the 2022 Formula E calendar, however the race was cancelled. When the provisional calendar of 2023 Formula E season was announced firstly, the circuit was not officially listed on the calendar and was considered to be added in. Following the approval of

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in October 2022, the circuit was officially listed on the 2023 Formula E calendar.

Layout

On 4 March 2022, the track layout was revealed, which will be will be located in Cape Town's Waterfront district, around the

Cape Town Stadium The Cape Town Stadium (; ; known until 2025 as the DHL Stadium for sponsorship reasons) is an association football (soccer) and rugby union stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, that was built as part of the country's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World ...

. It is believed that the track would be one of the fastest circuits on the calendar. The racing lap record has an average speed of .

References

External links

Official website

Sports venues in Cape Town Cape Town ePrix {{Autoracing-venue-stub