Yas Island Circuit
Yas Marina Circuit
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| Location | Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| Time zone | GMT +4 |
| Capacity | 50,000 |
| Owner | Government of Abu Dhabi |
| Operator | Abu Dhabi Motorsports Management |
| Broke ground | May 2007 |
| Opened | October 2009 |
| Construction cost |
£800 million $1.322 billion €893 million AED 3.792 billion |
| Architect | Hermann Tilke |
| Major events |
FIA Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix GP2 Asia Series, V8 Supercars, Drag Racing, GT1 World, Gulf 12 Hours |
| Grand Prix Circuit | |
| Length | 5.554 km (3.451 mi) |
| Turns | 21 |
| Lap record | 1:40.279 ( Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing, 2009) |
| Short Circuit | |
| Length | 4.700 km (2.920 mi) |
| Turns | 19 |
| Lap record | 1:37.656 ( Charles Pic, Addax Team, 2011, GP2 Asia) |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 24°28′02″N 54°36′11″E / 24.46722°N 54.60306°E
The Yas Marina Circuit (Arabic: حلبة مرسى ياس) is the venue for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke, and is situated on Yas Island, about 30 minutes from the capital of the UAE, Abu Dhabi. Yas Marina is the second Formula One track in the Middle East, with the first being in Bahrain. A two-day GP2 Asia Series test was held to officially open the circuit, which was held a week before the 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It also hosted the opening event for the Australian V8 Supercars series, the Yas V8 400, in February 2010. Outside motorsport the circuit was used for the final stage of the inaugural Abu Dhabi Tour cycle race in 2015. The circuit has FIA Grade 1 license.
The twenty-one corners twist through Yas Island off the Abu Dhabi coast, passing by the marina and through the Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi Hotel designed and conceived by New York-based architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote Architecture, and winding its way through sand dunes, with several long straights and tight corners.
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