Circuit Zandvoort park

Circuit Zandvoort known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017 is a motorsport race song placed within the dunes north of Zandvoort, Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line. There have been plans for races at Zandvoort earlier than World War II: the primary street race turned into hung on 3 June 1939. However, a everlasting race tune changed into now not built till after the conflict, the usage of communications roads constructed by means of the occupying German army.

Contrary to popular notion John Hugenholtz can not be credited with the layout of the Zandvoort song, even though he turned into worried as the chairman of the Nederlandse Automobiel Ren Club Dutch Auto Racing Club before becoming the primary song director in 1949. Instead, it changed into 1927 Le Mans winner, S. C. H. "Sammy" Davis who became delivered in as a tune layout consultant in July 1946 even though the format turned into in part dictated through the existing roads. The first race on the circuit, the Prijs van Zandvoort, befell on 7 August 1948.