Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is a 4.529 km motor racing circuit located in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa, just north of Johannesburg. The circuit has been used for Grand Prix and Formula One races and has hosted the South African Grand Prix twenty times. Among the Formula One races held at the track the 1977 South African Grand Prix stands out, as it i…
Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is a 4.529 km motor racing circuit located in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa, just north of Johannesburg. The circuit has been used for Grand Prix and Formula One races and has hosted the South African Grand Prix twenty times. Among the Formula One races held at the track the 1977 South African Grand Prix stands out, as it is principally remembered for the fatal accident that claimed the lives of race marshal Frederick Jansen van Vuuren and driver Tom Pryce. In recent years, the area surrounding the circuit has developed into a residential and commercial suburb of Johannesburg. More recently, Kyalami has played host to five rounds of the Superbike World Championship from 1998 to 2002 and later in 2009 and 2010, the season finale of the Superstars Series in 2009 and 2010, and the South African round of the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season. International racing returned to the circuit in November 2019, when it hosted the 2019 Kyalami 9 Hours, serving as the season finale of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge.
Location: Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Capacity: 100,000
Owner: Toby Venter (2014–present)
Opened: 4 November 1961
FIA Grade: 2
Broke ground: 1961
Major events: Current: · Kyalami 9 Hours (1958–1979, 1981–1984, 1986–1988, 1998–2000, 2019–2020, 2022–present) · Former: · Intercontinental GT Challenge (2019–2020, 2022–2023) · Formula One · South African Grand Prix (1967–1985, 1992–1993) · Grand Prix motorcycle racing · South African motorcycle Grand Prix (1983–1985, 1992) · World SBK (1998–2002, 2009–2010) · Sidecar World Championship (2000, 2002) · A1 Grand Prix (2009) · Superstars Series (2009–2010) · Grand Prix Masters (2005) · World Sportscar Championship (1974, 1983–1984)
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