🇮🇹Autodromo Nazionale Monza

Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a 5.793 km, 11-corner motor racing circuit in the Parco di Monza north of Milan, Italy — universally known as the "Temple of Speed". Built in just 110 days from May to July 1922 by 3,500 workers, financed by the Milan Automobile Club, Monza was the world's third purpose-built motor racing circuit (after Brooklands and Indianapolis) and remains the oldest in mainland Europe. The original 10 km layout combined a 5.5 km road course with a 4.5 km high-speed banked oval — the famous concrete banking ruins of which still stand inside the park today and were last used in 1969 before being closed on safety grounds. Monza has hosted the Italian Grand Prix in every Formula One season except 1980, when it temporarily moved to Imola. Famous corners include the high-speed Curva Grande (taken flat out for nearly a kilometre after the Variante del Rettifilo first chicane), the blind Lesmo curves (entered at 273 km/h in sixth gear, renamed after the nearby town of less than 8,000 inhabitants — previously called Curva delle Querce and Curva dei 100 Metri), Variante della Roggia, the Variante Ascari (renamed in honour of Alberto Ascari after his fatal 1955 Monza testing accident, previously known as Curva del Platano), and the iconic Parabolica which was renamed Curva Alboreto in 2021 in tribute to Italian driver Michele Alboreto on the 20th anniversary of his death. Monza also hosts a long-running superbike round of the FIM Endurance World Championship. The site contains three tracks: the 5.793 km Grand Prix circuit, the 2.405 km Junior track, and the partially-restored 4.250 km high-speed banked oval.