Circuit info
AVUS
We don't have our own real GPS-telemetry-based 3D model for this circuit (typically a pre-2023 or discontinued venue). The outline below is a freely usable, hand-drawn circuit diagram.This layout was in use during: 1959.Circuit diagram: ROY Jules (julesr0y) (CC BY 4.0). source & licenseOther known layouts at this circuit: 1959Interesting facts
AVUS consisted of two long straights and a hairpin at one end, closed off at the other by a 43-degree banked, barrier-free brick curve that drivers nicknamed the 'wall of death.' During the 1959 German Grand Prix weekend, Jean Behra's Formula 2 Porsche flew off that banking, and he was killed in the crash. The name itself carries the concept: AVUS stands for 'Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße' (automobile traffic and training road); construction started in 1913, was interrupted by the First World War, and was finally completed with financing from industrialist Hugo Stinnes. The track opened on 24 September 1921. It was originally a nearly 20 km, two-way divided road connected by hairpins at each end, closer to a strange out-and-back motorway experiment than a conventional racetrack. The banked north curve was built in 1936 to make AVUS 'the fastest track in the world'; it was an oddity even by the standards of the day, with no proper retaining wall, and in an era before downforce, cars were held onto the brick surface almost entirely by tyre grip alone. The 1959 Grand Prix was split into two 30-lap heats with the result decided on aggregate time. Tony Brooks won for Ferrari, with teammates Dan Gurney and Phil Hill completing the podium behind him, a rare all-Ferrari result. The famous banking was demolished in 1967, and the circuit itself shrank over the decades; racing continued there until 1998, and today what remains forms the northern section of Berlin's A115 motorway. You'll find it in Berlin, Germany. Only one Formula 1 race has been held here so far, in 1959, won by Tony Brooks.
Circuit history
The only Formula 1 race held here (1959) was won by Tony Brooks.