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Brands Hatch Circuit
Fawkham
Longfield
Kent
DA3 8NG
T: 01474 872331
F: 01474 874766
Official Website
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Brands Hatch opened in 1926 for grass track bike racing, initially was raced in an anti-clockwise direction, changed to clockwise in 1954. Hosted the British Grand Prix alternate years with Silverstone until the final race in 1986 when Silverstone was granted sole rights. Brands has a unique combination of dips, hills, cambers and challenging corners making it one of the world's favourite racing circuits.
Brands Hatch is located on the A20, signposted from junction 3 of the M25 (3miles).
The Club House is the Kentagon with hot and cold food and a fully stocked bar, there is camping facilities on site and a cash machine located to the left and rear of Paddock Hill grandstand. Spectating at this circuit is unparalleled, with almost uninterrupted views of all the Indy circuit from Paddock Hill grandstand.
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A lap around the Indy circuit - Crossing the start/finish line the first bend at Paddock Hill is one of the most daunting of any circuit in the world, a rollercoster of a ride over the crest then a huge dip taken at high speed, your stomach churns as you hit
the dip and then climb Hailwood Hill towards Druids Bend a 180 degree hairpin and the slowest of the circuit, descend again towards Graham Hill Bend a tight lefthander and then along a decidedly curving Cooper Straight to a very technical series of bends, left into Surtees, right into McLaren and then a seemingly endless right curve through Clearways and Clark Curve, finally back on the Brabham Straight the fastest part of the circuit to start another lap.
The Grand Prix circuit leaves the Indy circuit at Surtees, turns left through more undulations, over a crest just after Surtees then a dip into Pilgrims Drop then up Hawthorn Hill into a fast right-hander at Hawthorn bend, along the Derek Minter Straight into a right-hander at Westfield Bend down into Dingle Dell and up again into another right-hander at Sheene Curve, left at Stirlings Bend and straight down towards Clearways and rejoining the Indy circuit.
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Closest Fuel Station
There is a fuel pump at the far end of the pit lane as accessed from the Paddock, just behind the scrutineering bay, if not serving during track days there are petrol station about 1 mile if turning left out of the circuit and a Texaco about 2 miles if turning right.
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