🇭🇷Automotodrom Grobnik

Automotodrom Grobnik is a 4.169 km, 18-corner anticlockwise motor racing circuit at Grobničko Polje, around 10 km north-east of Rijeka in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar region of western Croatia. The circuit was constructed in just two months during spring and summer 1978 by the local motorsport club with extensive assistance from prisoners and the Yugoslav People's Army (which laid the high-grip asphalt), purpose-built to replace the dangerous Opatija street circuit after fatal accidents during the 1977 season caused it to be banned. The new circuit opened immediately in time for the 1978 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix, with class wins for Gregg Hansford (350cc and 250cc), Ángel Nieto (125cc) and Ricardo Tormo (50cc). From 1978 to 1990 Automotodrom Grobnik hosted the Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix as a permanent fixture of the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship. The 10.6 m wide anticlockwise layout features 18 turns, 22 pit boxes and dramatic elevation changes through the Croatian hills, combining long straights with fast left-right sweeping corner complexes. Today Grobnik hosts rounds of the Alpe Adria International Championship, the FIM Croatian national championship, the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series (added in 2020), and a busy trackday programme for Italian, Slovenian, Austrian and German motorcycle riders.