Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit

Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit
Circuit Details
Name	Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit
Location	Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, Germany
Length	2.030 km (1.261 mi)
Corners	11
First Race	Unknown
Last Race	unknown
Only Race	2016 Berlin ePrix
Circuit Records
Fastest Lap	Qualifying	Wins
0:59.067	0:57.811	1
Bruno Senna	Jean-Éric Vergne	Sébastien Buemi

The Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit, alternately known as the Berlin Street Circuit was a temporary street circuit located in Berlin, Germany, that host the 2016 Berlin ePrix as a round of the 2015/16 FIA Formula E Championship. Selected to host the Berlin E-Prix in 2016 after issues surrounding Tempelhof Airport, the Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit would only host one E-Prix, with the series returning to Tempelhof in 2016/17.

Formula E History

The Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit was first proposed to host the Berlin ePrix midway through the 2015/16 season, after the Refugee Crisis of 2015 saw Tempelhof Airport, the host of the 2015 Berlin ePrix, converted to a refugee centre. A new location was hence required for the Berlin race, with the area around the Strausberger Platz emerging as the favourite. The Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit was hence created around the Platz, unveiled on 2 May 2016, three weeks before the 2016 Berlin ePrix.

Circuit History

The new "Berlin Street Circuit" featured eleven corners, with the Strausberger Platz forming a centre piece for the circuit. The pits and start/finish straight were located on Karl-Marx-Allee, with 2.030 km (1.261 mi) of Berlin's streets used to form an eleven corner circuit. Sébastien Buemi would ultimately win the circuit's first race, before the Berlin ePrix reverted back to Tempelhof Airport for the 2017 Berlin ePrix.

Circuit Layout

A lap of the Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit opened with a long start/finish straight, ending with a tight hairpin right, with pit-in and pit-out located on the entry and exit respectively. A shorter straight along the opposite road follows, before the field hit the brakes for a left-right chicane. From there a short straight carries the field to turn four, a right hand curve, turning the field onto Lichtenberger Street.

The field follow Lichtenberger Street through to a pair of 90° left, which turn the field back on themselves and towards the Strausberger Platz. Turn seven appears a right hand kink with turn eight a long apex left along the top of the Platz itself. Turn nine sees the field kink right into a hairpin left of turn ten, which itself feeds the field into turn eleven, a long apex right to return the field onto the start/finish straight.

Records

A full list of records for the Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit are outlined below, including a list of race winners.

Winners

Below is a list of all of the winners of ePrix held at the Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit:

Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit Winners List
Season	Event	Date	Winner	Report
2015/16	2016 BMW i Berlin ePrix	21 May 2016	Sébastien Buemi	Report

Race-by-Race Records

The race-by-race records for the Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit are outlined below:

Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit Race-by-Race Records
Event	Qualifying		Fastest Lap		Winner
	Driver	Time	Driver	Time	Driver	Time
2016 BMW i Berlin ePrix	Jean-Éric Vergne	0:57.811	Bruno Senna	0:59.067	Sébastien Buemi	53:46.086

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