In 1989, through the joint collaboration of the Catalan Autonomous Government, the Montmeló Town Council and the Royal Automobile Club of Catalunya (RACC), work began on giving one of Europe´s most beautiful cities a state of the art race track to match. The Circuit de Catalunya opened on the doorstep of Barcelona in September 1991 and welcomed its first international event that same month, hosting the Spanish F1 Grand Prix.

It went on to host the European Motorcycle Grand Prix and in 1995 became home to the Gran Premio de Catalunya. Considered to be one of the best designed circuits of the recent era, the Circuito de Catalunya won the much coveted IRTA ´Best Grand Prix´ trophy for 2001 and has a general admission capacity of 104,000.

The Circuito de la Comunitat Valenciana was completed in 1999 and held rounds of the MotoGP and Spanish Motorcycle Championships in the same year. The Cheste track has several layouts, running anticlockwise with varying lengths. MotoGP events are held on a 4km track comprising of five right handed corners, eight left handers and a 650m straight.

Although the track is regarded as quite small, the pit complex contains 48 garages whilst the stadium style grandstands can seat up to 150,000 spectators. The circuit layout helps to create a unique atmosphere enjoyed by Spanish and international riders alike for the 1st round of the World Superbike and last MotoGP round of the season there is always a party feeling here for everyone.

The circuit is situated close to Europe's most south westerly tip about 10 mins from Portugal's stunning Atlantic coastline and the cosmopolitan town of Estoril. Due to the clement weather in this area the beaches are in use pretty much all year and the weather history for March indicates dry, warm weather with an average daylight temp of 15c which means the mid-day track temp should be a pleasant contrast to the UK and an ideal riding temperature.

The circuit lap begins with a flowing right-hander that leads directly into a rather wicked downhill section that ends in a hairpin. From there the track runs uphill to yet another hairpin and down the back straight that is neatly dissected by a little kink. A long left-hander follows, then a short straight that feeds into a uphill right-hander. From there its a series of twists before a very, very long right-hander feeds the bikes back onto the start-finish straight.

This new racing track at Mexilhoeira Grande near the coastal town of Portimão in southern Portugal and is due to host the final 2008 round of this season's World Supersport Championship, which is also running side-by-side with the World Superbike Championship, on November 2nd as its inaugural event and the pressure is on for the Parkalgar Honda home team composed of British rider Craig Jones and Portuguese rider Miguel Praia.

This new track has already been approved by the FIA for F1 car use and by the FIM for MotoGP and WSBK championships, along with a purpose built kart track will make this new track one of the best all year around testing track. The track layout is a mixture of the Ricardo Tormo circuit and the old Estoril circuit, with a very large start / finish grandstand like Estoril and a circular in field VIP tower similar to the Jerez tower, it's going to be a cracker.

TRACK LENGTH: The main circuit is 3,539,310 metes long, with two independent circuits: one, which is 2,237,183 m., and the other one is a length of 1,336,498m.
TRACK WIDTH: Standard 10 m. Start line 12 m.
STAR LINE LENGTH: 623.50 M. Long
GRANDSTANDS: 7200 seats
PELOUSES: 6000 seats
Albacete Gets Lights For Endurance Racing The system delivers 130,000 kw of power through more than 200 lamps positioned around the full circuit. Albacete will be the first circuit in Europe to offer full-coverage illumination (the only others are Motegi and Suzuka in Japan) and represents a major investment by the track in the future of endurance racing at Albacete. The circuit hosts its first round of the World Endurance Championship in June every year, the race is a now a 8 hour event which will run through the night from four o'clock on Saturday evening to midnight on Sunday morning.

Nothing, but nothing in the motorcycling world comes close to La Bañeza. Take a small, very ordinary, rural town a long way from anywhere in north-western Spain. Throw up a few hundreds yards of plastic tape and the odd straw bale. Pack the streets 30,000 screaming fans, then let loose a hundred classic and modern bike racers for some fill blown, handlebar banging competition. Not demonstrations or nostalgia runs, but flat-out, short circuit racing, where run-offs are measured in millimetres and spectators can and do reach out and touch the riders as they race past ! The La Bañeza street races started way back in 1949 and have transformed this rural town into the centre of the universe for the Spanish bike racers. Racing happens annually in early August as part of the Catholic festival week, the locals go the whole hog with bands, street theatre, and of course the awesome Grand Prix de La Bañeza.