Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track in the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, northwest England,about 5 miles from Winsford, 13 miles to Chester City Center, 8 miles to Northwich and 17 miles to Warrington with nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line set in rolling English countryside and forest. The track is set in the grounds of Oulton Hall, which were used as an army staging camp by General Patton prior to the Normandy landings. Image File history File links Oulton_park_track_plan. ... Image File history File links Oulton_park_track_plan. ... Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a palatine county in North West England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my [birth]right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked... Location within the British Isles Winsford is a town in Cheshire, England with a population of around 30,000 people. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ... Map sources for Northwich at grid reference SJ651733 Arms of Northwich Town Council Northwich is a town in Cheshire, England with a population of around 50,000. ... Location within the British Isles Warrington is the largest town and borough in the county of Cheshire, North West England. ... The Mid-Cheshire Line is a railway line in the north-west of England, between Chester and Manchester Piccadilly. ... General George Smith Patton Jr. ... The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allies. ...

The circuit was originally developed by the Mid-Cheshire Car Club, with the track attracting a crowd of 40,000 during the 1950's. Oulton Park regularly housed the 'Gold-Cup' event which attracted many Formula One teams (Stirling Moss won it 5 times), but as the F1 calendar shrunk to include only Grand Prix events, the cup became less well-known -- it has been run for a number of other categories including Formula 5000, sports cars and touring cars. It has now, however, been re-established as a highlight of the classic racing calendar. The British Touring Car Championship, and the Formula Three/British GT Championship meetings are also highlights of the year. Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Sir Stirling Moss OBE (born September 17, 1929 in London) is a British auto racing driver. ... Georges Boillot winning the 1912 French Grand Prix in Dieppe, France Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organized automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. ... Formula 5000 (or F5000) was an auto-racing series that ran in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1976. ... The current BTCC logo The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ... Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or, in abbreviated form, F3, is a type of formula racing and a class of open-wheeler motor racing. ...

The track is famous for its rapidly changing gradients and blind crests leading into unforgiving corners. The full track is 2.8 miles long, with a selection of shorter circuits also possible.

The paddock facilities are reasonable, with large areas of hard-standing and some power points.

A highly-entertaining though rather risqué monologue about the construction of one part of the circuit, "The Naming of Knicker Brook", is told by demolition expert/raconteur Blaster Bates. For the non-alcoholic drink recipe, see Blaster Bates (drink) Blaster Bates is the name used by Derek Bates, a British explosives and demolition expert who made a series of sound recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, recounting bizarre and funny experiences from his long career. ...

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