AVUS

Official name

Automobil-Verkehrs- und Ubungsstrasse

Location

Berlin, Germany

Type

permanent

Length

8.3 km

Turns

4

Direction

clockwise

Grands Prix

1

First

1959

Last

1959

Confidence

high

Two long parallel straights joined by a 43-degree banked brick wall turn

One Grand Prix, in 1959, run in two heats. Jean Behra was killed in a supporting sports-car race.

Grands Prix held here