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Description	Circuit used by motorbike world championship, inaugurated in 1978 as the old Opatija - Preluk circuit was used for tha last time in 1977. They wished to host F.1 for tests and for a Yugoslav GP, but I don’t think that a single lap has never performed.
Location	Grobnik (Rijeka) - Primorsko-goranska - Jadranska Hrvatska
Location	Grobnik, 12 km from Rijeka, along highway E65 to Zagreb. Up to 1991 Croatia was part of Yugoslavia
Latitude - Longitude	+ 45°22'57"     + 14°30'23" 45.3825     14.506389
UTM Coordinates	X = 461355.626  -  Y = 5025561.223  -  Zone 33T
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth
Altitude AMSL	300 m - 984 ft
Inauguration	September 17th 1978
Closing
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) www.spidiland.it/pista/rijeka/rijeka.html (2) Autosprint 41/1978 (page 51) (3) Motosprint 26/1979 (page 14) (4) Autosprint 28/1997 (page 30) map (5) www.grobnik.hr/engl/circuit.asp Official website (6) www.grobnik.hr/hrv/circuit.asp Official website

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Grobnik
Description
Years	1978÷...
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit	YES
Type	Permanent
Inauguration	September 17th 1978
Closing
Last update of this page	August 17th 2005
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points
length	4168.75  m	13677  ft	2.59  mi		(1)
Straight length	2151.13  m	7058  ft	1.337  mi	Sum of all straights

Latitude - Longitude: + 45°22'57", + 14°30'23"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner

Updates
Date	Track layout	Years	Description by	Map by	Thanks to	Note
May 20th 2024			Guido de Carli			Update	Description
August 17th 2005		1978÷...	Guido de Carli			Update	Description
March 16th 2005			Guido de Carli			Update	Map
February 9th 2005		1978÷...	Guido de Carli			New	Description without map
September 21st 2003			Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli		New	Description with map
March 26th 2003			Guido de Carli			Update	Description
August 23rd 2002			Guido de Carli			New	Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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