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Circuit Park Zandvoort was born and in the summer of 1989 the track was remodeled to an interim Club Circuit of 2.526 km (1.570 mi), while the disposed southern part of the track was used to build a Vendorado Bungalow Park and new premises for the local football and hockey clubs. However, a new operating company, the Stichting Exploitatie Circuit Park, was formed and started work at the realization of the track's reconstruction plans. Again the track, owned by the municipality of Zandvoort, was in danger of being permanently lost for motorsports. However, only a couple of months later a new problem arose: the company that commercially ran the circuit (CENAV), called in the receiver and went out of business, marking the end of 'Circuit van Zandvoort'. In January 1987 this plan got the necessary 'green light' when it was formally approved by the Provincial Council of North Holland.

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To solve a number of problems that had made it impossible to develop and upgrade the track, the most important one being noise pollution for the inhabitants of the part of Zandvoort closest to the track, the track management adopted and developed a plan to move the most southern part of the track away from the housing estate and rebuild a more compact track in the remaining former 'infield'. The Dutch Grand Prix returned in 1958 and remained a permanent fixture on the F1 calendar (with the exception of 1972) until 1985, when it was held for the last time in the 20th century. There was no Dutch Grand Prix in 1954, 1956 or 1957, but 1955 saw the first true Formula One race as part of the Drivers' Championship. The 1952 race was the first to be run as a round of the World Championship, albeit to Formula Two regulations rather than Formula One regulations like all the European rounds of the championship that year a similar situation also applied to the 1953. The race was renamed the Grote Prijs van Zandvoort (Zandvoort Grand Prix) in 1949, then the Grote Prijs van Nederland ( Dutch Grand Prix) in 1950. The first race on the circuit, the Prijs van Zandvoort, took place on 7 August 1948. 'Sammy' Davis who was brought in as a track design advisor in July 1946 although the layout was partly dictated by the existing roads. Contrary to popular belief John Hugenholtz cannot be credited with the design of the Zandvoort track, although he was involved as the chairman of the Nederlandse Automobiel Ren Club (Dutch Auto Racing Club) before becoming the first track director in 1949. However, a permanent race track was not constructed until after the war, using communications roads built by the occupying German army.

There were plans for races at Zandvoort before World War II: the first street race was held on 3 June 1939. It returned to the Formula One calendar in 2021 as the location of the revived Dutch Grand Prix.

Masters of Formula 3 (1991–2006, 2009–2016)ġ:11.097 ( Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W12, 2021, Formula One)ġ:21.044 ( Klaas Zwart, Jaguar R5 F1, 2019, Formula One)ġ:01.043 ( Kelvin Burt, Reynard 923, 1992, Formula Three)ġ:16.538 ( Alain Prost, McLaren MP4/2B, 1985, Formula One)ġ:19.438 ( Gilles Villeneuve, Ferrari 312T4, 1979, Formula One)ġ:19.23 ( Jacky Ickx, Ferrari 312B, 1970, Formula One)Ĭircuit Zandvoort ( Dutch pronunciation: ), known for sponsorship reasons as CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, and previously known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017, is a 4.259 km (2.646 mi) motorsport race track located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line.

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