| USA - UNITED STATES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HOUSTON (RELIANT PARK) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Street circuit, it will be inaugurated on May 11th-13th 2006 with Champ Car and ALMS races under the lights. It’s the first Champ Car race under the lights not on an oval circuit after the race at Burke Lakefront Airport, Cleveland, July 5th 2003. The track will be lightened by 18 stadium lights; start is scheduled at 8.00 PM local time. Paddock will be inside Reliant Arena. Approx 150,000 spectators are expected | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Reliant Park, Houston TX - Texas - Southern States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Reliant Park, a sporting and (I think) fairy area; all elements (Reliant Stadium, Reliant Astrodome, Reliant Arena, Reliant Parkway) are sponsored by Reliant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 29°40'50" - 95°24'19" 29.680556 -95.405278 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 267242.034 - Y = 3285809.297 - Zone 15R | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - Microsoft Research Maps - MapQuest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 12 m - 39 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | May 11th 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Reliant Park | |||||
| Description | First proposal of the circuit, dated end of 2005 | ||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
YES
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| Proposal not developed | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | May 21st 2006 | ||||
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| Reliant Park | |||||
Without chicane | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2006 | ||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 11th 2006 | ||||
| Closing | May 11th 2006 | ||||
| Last update of this page | May 21st 2006 | ||||
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| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2736 m | 8976 ft | 1.7 mi | Without chicane | |
| Reliant Park | |||||
With chicane | |||||
| Description | During ALMS practice they found that Corner 2 was too dangerous, so a temporary chicane has been added on the previous straight. As the circuit with chicane is shorter than the one without it (according to layout, the circuit with chicane should be longer), maybe some more minor changes were made and/or they remeasured track length. For more details, see on the forum | ||||
| Years | 2006 | ||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 12th 2006 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 13th 2008 | ||||
| Info last update | May 11th 2006 | ||||
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| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2720 m | 8923 ft | 1.69 mi | With chicane | |
| length | 2724 m | 8937 ft | 1.693 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (6) |
| Reliant Park | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2007 | ||||
| Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 12th 2006 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 13th 2008 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
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| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2700 m | 8857 ft | 1.678 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (7) |
Proposal end of 2005
2006 final layout without chicane
2006 final layout with chicane
See this track layout with 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)
2007 layout, compared with the 2006 one without chicane
See this track layout with 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)
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| June 13th 2008 | Guido de Carli | borough82 | borough82 | Update | Description | ||
| March 31st 2007 | Reliant Park | 2007 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description with map | ||
| May 21st 2006 | Reliant Park | 2006 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Lorenzo Tommasi | Michel Marti | Update | Description with map |
| May 13th 2006 | Reliant Park | 2006 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Description | |
| April 17th 2006 | Reliant Park | 2006 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description with map |
| November 15th 2005 | Reliant Park | 2006 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Description | |
| November 12th 2005 | Reliant Park | 2006 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description with map |
| November 12th 2005 | Reliant Park | 2006 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Stephan Zeidler | New | Description | |
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
