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USA - UNITED STATES
HOUSTON (CONVENTION CENTER)
Description	Circuit used for Cart and TransAm races. My map is quite correct, but sources don’t agree on some points. Features: Pit lane: the one I drawn is different from one shown by my sources (but 4 websites show 4 different layout); mine is drawn from a Spotter Guide of a Cart GP (I don’t know what year), and so I think it should be quite reliable Start line: at least in 1998 it was on the opposite straight (Austin Street). The only source that reports it is racingcircuits.net, while all the others reports it in the same place as finish line Finish street name: it should be Avenida de Las Americas (as I saw clearly on a 1998 video clip), but some sources names it Chenevert Streetor G.R. Brown Convention Boulevard (North American Motorsport Pages) Paddock: it was inside Convention Center. You can see some pics on the forum
Location	George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston TX - Texas - Southern States
Location	Close to George R. Brown Convention Center
Latitude - Longitude	+ 29°45'07"     - 95°21'31" 29.751944     -95.358611
UTM Coordinates	X = 271920.881  -  Y = 3293629.716  -  Zone 15R
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -    Microsoft Research Maps  -    MapQuest
Altitude AMSL	12 m - 39 ft
Inauguration	1998
Closing	2001
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) mail, note Mails from Lorenzo Tommasi dated November 11th 2005, December 15th 2005 and April 7th and 10th 2006 (2) (page 62) Author: Peter Higham, Bruce Jones - Published by: Andre Deutsch - year: 1999 - ISBN: 0-233-99619-2 Description (3) Forum Forum North America USA: Southern States Texas - Houston Cart 1998 (with photos) (4) www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/TX/Houston.html North American Motorsports Pages (5) www.racingcircuits.net Motor Racing Circuits Database (6) www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/houston.html The GEL Motorsport - Tracks Around The World

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

George R. Brown Convention Center
Description
Years	1998÷2001
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Street course
Inauguration	1998
Closing	2001
Last update of this page	October 25th 2007
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Avenida de las Americas (Chenevert Street) - Walker Avenue - McKinney Street - Crawford Street - Capital Avenue - Austin Street - Clark Avenue - La Branch Street - Lamar Avenue - Crawford Street - Polk Street
length	2462  m	8078  ft	1.53  mi		(6)
length	2655  m	8712  ft	1.65  mi		(1)
length	2704  m	8870  ft	1.68  mi		(5)

Latitude - Longitude: + 29°45'07", - 95°21'31"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner

Updates
Date	Track layout	Years	Description by	Map by	Thanks to	Note
April 17th 2006			Lorenzo Tommasi			Update	Description
December 28th 2005			Lorenzo Tommasi	Lorenzo Tommasi		Update	Description with map
November 15th 2005			Lorenzo Tommasi			Update	Description
November 12th 2005			Lorenzo Tommasi			New	Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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