Pannonia Ring
Pannonia Ring Notes:
The Pannonia Ring is a 2.95-mile (4.74-km) raceway optimized for motorcycle racing, used mainly as a testing ground and driver training facility by world-famous racing teams and manufacturers like the Italian Ducati. The road course was paved in 1997 on farmlands at the south of Ostffyasszonyfa, Hungary, at a two-hour ride from Budapest, near the Austrian and Slovak borders. Its layout is compatible with both clockwise and counterclockwise racing, with a similar average speed of 82 mph (131 km/h). Skies tend to be cloudy, and it rains approximately 100 days a year. Temperature is almost year-round, but summers tend to be quite hot, hitting extremes of 40 degrees Celsius.
There are 18 corners in the Pannonia Ring, starting from the middle of the front straightaway. Turns number one and two combine to form a wide left-hander when racing clockwise. A 90-degrees turn three leads into a sweeping turn four and, from there, into a tight-angle corner number five. The segment between turns five and eight is fast-paced, but the 90-degree turn nine regulates the speed down. The most challenging stretch comes next with the sweeping turn ten, followed by a snaking section packed with tight-angle corners right until re-entering the front straight at corner 18.
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