Editing Pescara Circuit (section)

==History==
The country and town roads used were both narrow and bumpy. Like many long circuits (such as the original [[Nürburgring]] and [[Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps|Spa-Francorchamps]] circuits), Pescara was revered as a fantastic driver's circuit, but also like Spa and the Nürburgring, it was extremely dangerous and unforgiving.

The long track travelled through a number of villages situated on hills surrounding Pescara, following a roughly triangular shape with its [[Vertex (geometry)|corners]] at the seaside municipality of Pescara. It included two {{cvt|3.4|mi|km|abbr=on}} long straights (only slightly shorter than the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans) between the seaside municipality of [[Montesilvano]], nicknamed "The Flying Kilometre".<ref name='pescara_msportmagazine' /><ref name=":0" /> It was on "The Flying Kilometre" that [[Guy Moll]] was killed during the 1934 Coppa Acerbo.<ref name='pescara_msportmagazine' /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp344.htm#28|title=1934 Coppa Acerbo|last=The Golden Age of Grand Prix Racing|access-date=17 September 2018|archive-date=18 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718234715/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp344.htm#28|url-status=dead}}</ref> The highest point, at [[Spoltore]], was {{cvt|185|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level. <ref name=":2" /> The track started just outside the middle of Pescara, moving west through the suburb of Rione Partenze, and then into the hilly villages of Frascone, Valle Carbone, Spoltore, and Case Fornace, going through a mixture of slow and fast bends before dropping out of the hills into the inland municipality of [[Cappelle sul Tavo]], then down the first {{cvt|3.4|mi|km|abbr=on}} straight northeast to Montesilvano before going down another {{cvt|3.4|mi|km|abbr=on}} straight and returning to Pescara.<ref name=":0" /> 

The first race took place in 1924 and non-Championship [[Formula One]] races followed in the early 1950s, with one official Formula One World Championship event in {{F1|1957}}<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /> due to the cancellation of other races.<ref name='pescara_msportmagazine' /> The [[Pescara Grand Prix]] drew in excess of 200,000 spectators,<ref name=":5" /> and remains the longest circuit in terms of lap distance ever to stage a Formula One Grand Prix. But the circuit was feared even by [[Enzo Ferrari]] who did not send his cars to this race out of fear for his drivers' safety.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://patronisef1.com/index.php/features/six-of-the-best/994-six-of-the-bestf1-circuits |title=Six of the Best...F1 circuits |publisher=Patronise F1 |date=16 August 2009 |access-date=13 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428002952/http://www.patronisef1.com/index.php/features/six-of-the-best/994-six-of-the-bestf1-circuits |archive-date=28 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It was the first F1 circuit with an artificial chicane, built in 1934 on the start-finish straight to reduce speed in the pits after {{cvt|3.4|mi|km|abbr=on}} of flat out.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" />

The track's last race was a four-hour [[World Sportscar Championship]] race in 1961,<ref name='pescara_msportmagazine' /><ref name=":3" />  won by [[Lorenzo Bandini]] and [[Giorgio Scarlatti]] driving a [[Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa#1961: TRI61|Ferrari 250 TR]] for [[Scuderia Centro Sud]].<ref name='1961_pescara_4h'>{{Cite web |title=1961 Pescara 4 Hours |url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1961-pescara-4-hours |website=[[Motor Sport (magazine)|Motor Sport Magazine]] |date=15 August 1961 |access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref> After that race the circuit was permanently retired as a racing venue as it was impossible for the organizers to guarantee the safety of drivers and spectators.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" />