Circuito de Jerez

Location: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Races held: 7 (1986 to 1997)
Most wins, drivers: Ayrton Senna (2), Alain Prost (2), Michael Schumacher (1), Mika Häkkinen (1), Nigel Mansell (1)
Most wins, teams: McLaren (3), Williams (1), Ferrari (1), Benetton (1), Team Lotus (1)
Most poles: Ayrton Senna (4), Michael Schumacher (1), Jacques Villeneuve (1), Nelson Piquet (1)
Fastest race lap: 1:23.135, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, 1997 (race laps since 1982; layouts change over time)
Map: OpenStreetMap

What is a lap of Circuito de Jerez like?

A permanent road course opened in December 1985, Jerez hosted the Spanish Grand Prix from 1986 (when Ayrton Senna beat Nigel Mansell by 0.014 seconds) to 1990, but its remote location drew small crowds and the race moved to Barcelona after 1990, the year Martin Donnelly was badly injured in a crash in qualifying. The layout changed during the Formula 1 years: it was lengthened from 4.218 km to 4.423 km in 1992, when a chicane was removed to create the long Curva Sito Pons and a longer back straight, and to 4.428 km in 1994, when the Senna chicane was added at the corner where Donnelly crashed. The 1997 European Grand Prix decided the title: Michael Schumacher collided with Jacques Villeneuve and ended in the gravel at Curva Dry Sack, and the mayor's interruption of the podium ceremony led to Jerez being dropped from the calendar. Renamed after Ángel Nieto in 2018, the circuit now hosts MotoGP's Spanish Grand Prix and World Superbike, and Formula 1 teams tested there in winter until 2015.

Lap length: 4.428 km
Direction: clockwise
Longest straight: 600 m
Layout described: Grand Prix circuit with the Senna chicane (1994 onwards), 4.428 km; used for the European Grand Prix in 1994 and 1997

Order	Name	Side	Type
1	Curva Expo 92
2	Curva Michelin	Right
3	Curva Sito Pons	Right
4	Curva Dry Sack (now Curva Dani Pedrosa)	Right	slow
5	Curva Aspar
6	Curva Ángel Nieto	Right
7	Curva Peluqui	Right
8	Senna chicane		chicane
9	Curva Ducados (now Curva Jorge Lorenzo)

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Does pole position win at Circuito de Jerez?

The pole sitter has won 3 of 7 races here (43%). Across all circuits since 1950 the pole sitter wins 44% of races. The winner started from the front row (P1 or P2) in 6 of 7 races (86%) and from the top three in 6 (86%). Lowest grid position to win: 5th, Mika Häkkinen in 1997.

Winner started from	Wins	Share
P1	3	43%
P2	3	43%
P5	1	14%

Where the winner started, every race at this circuit. Pole sitter means the driver who set the fastest qualifying time (first on the grid where no qualifying data exists); a grid penalty can move the pole sitter back, and that race still counts for them. Compare every circuit.

How are races at Circuito de Jerez won?

1994 to 2009 (refuelling): 2 races; winners made 2 stops in 1, 3 or more in 1; first stop at a median lap 21 (30% of the race)

Race	Winner	Stops	Stop laps
1997	Mika Häkkinen	2	26, 44 of 69
1994	Michael Schumacher	3	15, 33, 52 of 69

Lap times over the years

Pole position time (where qualifying times are recorded, 1994 on) and fastest race lap (1982 on), per race. Lower is faster. Hover or tap for a year.

All races at Circuito de Jerez

Race	Winner	Team	Pole	Fastest lap
1997 European Grand Prix	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren	Jacques Villeneuve	Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1:23.135)
1994 European Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	Michael Schumacher	Michael Schumacher (1:25.040)
1990 Spanish Grand Prix	Alain Prost	Ferrari	Ayrton Senna	Riccardo Patrese (1:24.513)
1989 Spanish Grand Prix	Ayrton Senna	McLaren	Ayrton Senna	Ayrton Senna (1:25.779)
1988 Spanish Grand Prix	Alain Prost	McLaren	Ayrton Senna	Alain Prost (1:27.845)
1987 Spanish Grand Prix	Nigel Mansell	Williams	Nelson Piquet	Gerhard Berger (1:26.986)
1986 Spanish Grand Prix	Ayrton Senna	Team Lotus	Ayrton Senna	Nigel Mansell (1:27.176)