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HOUSTON (RELIANT PARK)
Description	Street circuit, it will be inaugurated on May 11th-13th 2006 with Champ Car and ALMS races under the lights. It’s the first Champ Car race under the lights not on an oval circuit after the race at Burke Lakefront Airport, Cleveland, July 5th 2003. The track will be lightened by 18 stadium lights; start is scheduled at 8.00 PM local time. Paddock will be inside Reliant Arena. Approx 150,000 spectators are expected
Location	Reliant Park, Houston TX - Texas - Southern States
Location	Reliant Park, a sporting and (I think) fairy area; all elements (Reliant Stadium, Reliant Astrodome, Reliant Arena, Reliant Parkway) are sponsored by Reliant
Latitude - Longitude	+ 29°40'50"     - 95°24'19" 29.680556     -95.405278
UTM Coordinates	X = 267242.034  -  Y = 3285809.297  -  Zone 15R
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -    Microsoft Research Maps  -    MapQuest
Altitude AMSL	12 m - 39 ft
Inauguration	May 11th 2006
Closing
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) mail, note Mails from Lorenzo Tommasi dated November 11th 2005, April 17th 2006, April 20th 2006 and May 19th 2006 (2) mail, note Mail from Michel Marti dated May 19th 2006 (3) Forum Forum North America USA: Southern States Texas - Houston track is changed 48h before the start! [ENG] (4) Forum Forum North America USA: Southern States Texas - CLAMOROSO! Modificato il tracciato a Houston [ITA] (5) www.champcarworldseries.com/CONTENT/PDF/Results/2006/20060511PDFR_0001.pdf Official map (6) www.milermeter.com/?r=1980676 Track layout (7) www.milermeter.com/?r=1983676 Track layout (8) Autosprint 41/2005 (page 44) New street circuit, it will host ALMS in 2006 (9) www.grandprixofhouston.com/event_info.html Official website

(*) 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.

Reliant Park
Description	First proposal of the circuit, dated end of 2005
Years
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	YES
Proposal not developed	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Street course
Inauguration
Closing
Last update of this page	May 21st 2006
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points

Reliant Park
Without chicane
Description
Years	2006
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Street course
Inauguration	May 11th 2006
Closing	May 11th 2006
Last update of this page	May 21st 2006
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points
length	2736  m	8976  ft	1.7  mi	Without chicane

Reliant Park
With chicane
Description	During ALMS practice they found that Corner 2 was too dangerous, so a temporary chicane has been added on the previous straight. As the circuit with chicane is shorter than the one without it (according to layout, the circuit with chicane should be longer), maybe some more minor changes were made and/or they remeasured track length. For more details, see on the forum
Years	2006
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Street course
Inauguration	May 12th 2006
Closing
Last update of this page	June 13th 2008
Info last update	May 11th 2006
Designer
Distinctive points
length	2720  m	8923  ft	1.69  mi	With chicane
length	2724  m	8937  ft	1.693  mi	Calculated from aerial photo (*)	(6)

Reliant Park
Description
Years	2007
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Street course
Inauguration	May 12th 2006
Closing
Last update of this page	June 13th 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points
length	2700  m	8857  ft	1.678  mi	Calculated from aerial photo (*)	(7)

Latitude - Longitude: + 29°40'50", - 95°24'19"
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
June 13th 2008			Guido de Carli	borough82	borough82	Update	Description
March 31st 2007	Reliant Park	2007	Guido de Carli			Update	Description with map
May 21st 2006	Reliant Park	2006	Lorenzo Tommasi	Lorenzo Tommasi	Michel Marti	Update	Description with map
May 13th 2006	Reliant Park	2006	Guido de Carli		Lorenzo Tommasi	Update	Description
April 17th 2006	Reliant Park	2006	Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli	Lorenzo Tommasi	New	Description with map
November 15th 2005	Reliant Park	2006	Guido de Carli		Lorenzo Tommasi	Update	Description
November 12th 2005	Reliant Park	2006	Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli	Lorenzo Tommasi	New	Description with map
November 12th 2005	Reliant Park	2006	Lorenzo Tommasi		Stephan Zeidler	New	Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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