The Hanoi Circuit or Hanoi Street Circuit ( Vietnamese: ''Trường đua đường phố Hà Nội'') was a

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venue located in the Nam Từ Liêm district of

Hanoi Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...

, the capital of

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. It was a

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designed to host the Vietnamese Grand Prix, a planned round of the Formula One World Championship. The circuit is long and was designed by circuit architect Hermann Tilke.

History

The Hanoi Circuit was originally expected to make its debut on the Formula One calendar in

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

, but the race was cancelled in response to the

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. The planned next Formula One race on the circuit was also dropped from the 2021 calendar because of the arrest on corruption charges of a key official responsible for the race in Hanoi. The circuit, going anticlockwise, was located next to the Mỹ Đình National Stadium and consisted of a temporary street section and a purpose-built layout that will be open to the public once completed. It also features one of the longest straights on the calendar at in length. The purpose-built section drew inspiration from several existing circuits including the

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, Suzuka Circuit,

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and the Nürburgring "GP-Strecke". This philosophy of adapting corners from other circuits had previously been used in designing the layout of the Circuit of the Americas. The original layout consisted of twenty-two corners, but this was revised in December 2019 to include an additional corner in the third sector. The extra corner was added to improve safety. Construction of the circuit was completed in February 2020.

References

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