Circuit info
Riverside International Raceway
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: 1960.Circuit diagram: ROY Jules (julesr0y) (CC BY 4.0). source & licenseOther known layouts at this circuit: 1960Interesting facts
Riverside International Raceway opened on 21 September 1957 in Moreno Valley, California, and hosted the United States Grand Prix on 20 November 1960, won by Stirling Moss. Organisers had expected 100,000 spectators, but only around 25,000 showed up, turning the race into a financial loss; Formula 1 moved to Watkins Glen for 1961 and never returned to Riverside. The circuit closed on 2 July 1989, and the Moreno Valley Mall now stands on the site. The track opened and closed with a grim symmetry: its first fatality came the day after opening, on 22 September 1957, and its last came on the very final day it operated, 2 July 1989; more than thirty drivers died there across its 32 years of racing. In 1966, Ken Miles, the driver-engineer behind Ford's GT40 programme and a Le Mans winner, died there during testing, crashing at around 175 mph (280 km/h) at Turn 9 after his car went airborne and flipped. The circuit doubled as a Hollywood filming location, appearing in the 1966 racing film 'Grand Prix' and in several television series. You'll find it in California, United States. Only one Formula 1 race has been held here so far, in 1960, won by Stirling Moss.
Circuit history
The only Formula 1 race held here (1960) was won by Stirling Moss.