Rockingham
Rockingham
Address:
Corby
Northamptonshire
Track Length: 1.500 miles (Oval), 2.237 miles (GP Track)
2.414 km 3.6 km
Turns 1, 3 and 4 of Oval are banked at 9 degrees, Turn 2 at 5 degrees.
Also includes a 500m short oval and a 1.100km kart track.
The inaugural race meeting was the Coys Historic Festival, which opened on the 26th May 2001 (although a closed club meeting had been held in the previous couple of weeks in order to iron out any problems).
The corners of this circuit were named in May 2002. Starting at the start/finishing line (going anti-clockwise), the turn names are:-
Chicane
Deene
Yentwood
Pif Paf
Short link
Steel Straight
Graselands
Tarzan (the hairpin)
School Straight
Brook
Gretton
Turn 4 (back on the oval
Note that the historic circuit goes right at the Deene hairpin, going to Kirby corner before rejoining the Steel Straight.
