Yas Island Circuit

Motorsport venue
Name = Yas Island
Location = Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
Time = GMT +4


Events = F1
Length_km = 5.6
Length_mi = 3.48
Turns = 20
Record_time = N/A
Record_driver = N/A
Record_team = N/A
Record_year = N/AThe proposed Yas Island Circuit has been announced as the venue for a Formula One race in F1|2009, the event to be named the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It will be a newly-built circuit on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, and will be the second Formula One track in the Middle East.

The Yas Island Circuit is being built by the construction company Aldar who are also constructing a theme park, marina, residential areas, water park, sport and leisure facilities, as well as hotels and beach resorts in the surrounding area. Its twenty corners will twist through the natural island, passing the marina and winding its way through sand dunes, with several long straights and tight corners. The circuit has three planned grandstand areas.

References

ee also

*Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
*List of Formula One circuits
*Yas Island

External links

* [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=24.499568,54.604282&spn=0.029992,0.075788&t=h&z=14&om=0 Circuit location on Google Maps]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7473748.stm Abu Dhabi to stage 2009 F1 finale]