Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Motorsport racing track in Magny-Cours, France
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours is a 4.411 km permanent motor racing circuit near Magny-Cours, 18 km south of Nevers in the Nièvre. The site holds three tracks: the Grand Prix track, the Club track and a karting track. The Grand Prix layout mixes slow hairpins with high-speed chicanes, and several corners are named after the circuits they copy, such as the Estoril corner and the Adelaide hairpin.
Jean Bernigaud opened the track in 1960 as a small national course for French racing. From 1991 it became the venue for the Formula One French Grand Prix and kept that role until 2008.
The site also holds a campus of the Institut supérieur de l'automobile et des transports and the Conservatoire de la monoplace française, a museum of French single-seater racing cars. The track's corners carry the names of other circuits: the Estoril bend, the Adelaide hairpin, and chicanes named after the Nürburgring and Imola. The Bol d'Or 24-hour motorcycle endurance race ran here from 2000 to 2014.
The track lies 250 kilometers south of Paris and can be reached via the A77 motorway from the north or the N7 road from the south. Event days bring many spectators, so arriving early and parking in the marked areas outside the racing facility is advisable.
Michael Schumacher achieved his eighth win at the same Grand Prix here in 2006, something nobody in Formula One had done before. That record fell on a track known as technically demanding but with few natural elevation changes.
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