Kuala Lumpur City Grand Prix

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The Kuala Lumpur City Grand Prix (also known as the KL City Grand Prix) was a

motor racing event held on the Kuala Lumpur Street Circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The track and event overlay was designed and delivered by Apex Circuit Design Ltd.[1]

The event was first held in 2015, however was cancelled in subsequent years due to legal issues.[2]

Circuit

Main article: Kuala Lumpur Street Circuit

The 3.2 kilometre, 16 corner street circuit was based in the centre of Kuala Lumpur and passed several major landmarks including the Petronas Towers.[3]

History

The inaugural event was held from 7–9 August 2015. The event's main race, the KL GT City Cup was supported by championship rounds of the

Supercars pledged they plan to honour their contract and race at the event in 2017 pending the resolution of the legal issues.[2] However, due to ongoing issues the event did not appear on the series' 2017 calendar. Officials are currently in talks with the organisers to hold the event at Sepang International Circuit.[5]

KL GT City Cup

The KL GT City Cup, a race for GT3 cars, was run as a forty-minute race on the Sunday of the 2015 event. The 2015 GT City Cup was won by Japanese driver Naoki Yokomizo.[6] Local Malaysian driver Fairuz Fauzy finished second, but only after having been forced to borrow a car from the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series for the race, having badly damaged his Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 in qualifying.[6]

Winners

Year Driver Car
2015 Japan Naoki Yokomizo Lamborghini Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo

Supercars

Prior to the first running of the event in 2015, Supercars announced they intended to hold a full championship round at the KL City Grand Prix from 2016 onwards.

2016 season.[8]

In June 2016, the event was cancelled due to the legal issues surrounding the event.

Yas V8 400 in the United Arab Emirates
from 2010 to 2012.

References

  1. ^ "Kuala Lumpur Grand Prix - Apex Circuit Design Ltd".
  2. ^ a b c d e "KL City 400 Supercar Extravaganza cancelled". Supercars. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  3. ^
    Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
    . 3 June 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  4. ^ Haqqin, Zie (3 August 2015). "KL City Grand Prix is All Ready to Go". GTCityGrandPrix.com. Kuala Lumpur. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Supercars releases 2017 calendar". Supercars. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  6. ^ a b Ishak, Fadhli (9 August 2015). "Naoki Yokomizo wins KL City GT Cup". New Straits Times. Kuala Lumpur. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  7. ^ Bartholomaeus, Stefan (9 August 2015). "Todd Kelly wins final Supercars demo in KL". SpeedCafe. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  8. ^ "2016 Championship calendar released". V8 Supercars. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.

External links

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