| MAR - MOROCCO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MARRAKECH (WTCC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Marrakech | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Street course that from May 1st to 3rd 2009 hosted a World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) event. After 2010 event promoters ordered to Mr. Tilke a proposal (issued in April 2012) for making the circuit suitable for F.1, in order to be able to host a Moroccan F.1 GP in 2015. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Marrakech - Marrakech Medina - Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 31°35'16" - 7°59'11" 31.587778 -7.986389 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 596169.121 - Y = 3495191.084 - Zone 29R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 496 m - 1627 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | May 3rd 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Designer | D3 D3 Motorsport Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Marrakech (WTCC) | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2009÷... | ||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 3rd 2009 | ||||
| Closing | May 3rd 2009 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 17th 2012 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | D3 D3 Motorsport Development | ||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 4500 m | 14764 ft | 2.796 mi | (8) | |
| length | 4540 m | 14895 ft | 2.821 mi | (4) | |
| length | 4624 m | 15171 ft | 2.873 mi | (3) | |
| length | 4550 m | 14928 ft | 2.827 mi | Track center line length | (10) |
| length | 4548 m | 14920 ft | 2.826 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (5) |
| Min width | 8 m | 26 ft | (10) | ||
| Max width | 15 m | 49 ft | (10) | ||
| Marrakech (WTCC) | |||||
| Description | Some minor changes have been made to 2009 layout: lower curbs than last year and the "run-off areas" after the turns where a bit widened. | ||||
| Years | 2010÷... | ||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 2nd 2010 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | May 3rd 2010 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | D3 D3 Motorsport Development | ||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 4545 m | 14911 ft | 2.824 mi | (7) | |
| length | 4624 m | 15171 ft | 2.873 mi | (3) | |
| length | 4550 m | 14928 ft | 2.827 mi | Track center line length | (10) |
| length | 4631 m | 15195 ft | 2.878 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (6) |
| Min width | 8 m | 26 ft | (10) | ||
| Max width | 14 m | 46 ft | (10) | ||
Marrakech (all layouts)
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Marrakech (2009)
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Marrakech (2010)
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| April 18th 2012 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| May 19th 2010 | 2010÷... | Guido de Carli | Peer Risch | Peer Risch | Update | Description with map | |
| May 3rd 2010 | 2010÷... | Guido de Carli | Roelard Smit | Roelard Smit | Update | Description with map | |
| March 1st 2010 | 2009÷... | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | |||
| May 19th 2009 | 2009÷... | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | |||
| November 28th 2008 | 2009÷... | Guido de Carli | Peer Risch | Peer Risch | Update | Description with map | |
| July 4th 2008 | 2009÷... | Guido de Carli | Roelard Smit | New | Description without map | ||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
