Information AboutDonington Park |
Donington Park is a site near Castle Donington in North West Leicestershire , England , owned by millionaire motoring enthusiast Tom Wheatcroft. It is used as a Grand Prix track, and for music festivals. In recent times it has held meetings of the British Touring Car Championship , British Superbikes and MotoGP as well as, most famously, the 1993 European Grand Prix . This race was won by the late Ayrton Senna , and is regarded by some as one of his greatest drives ever. There is a memorial to Senna in the grounds of the racetrack, outside a shop selling motorsports memorabilia. The track is also the location of a museum, the Donington Grand Prix Collection. This opened in 1973 , and is the largest collection of Grand Prix cars anywhere in the world. It has a great pedigree of holding rock concerts and festivals, having played host to the Monsters Of Rock concerts in the late 80s and early 90s , when groups such as AC/DC (who headlined it a record three times), Metallica and Iron Maiden (who share AC/DC's record) performed there. More recently, it has played host to Stereophonics ' ''A Day At The Races'' event in 2001 , Ozzfest in 2002 and Download Festival in 2003 , headlined by Iron Maiden and Audioslave , who were late replacements for Limpbizkit , who pulled out of the festival. Download was held again in 2004 , when Metallica returned to Donington, accompanied by a star-studded lineup including Slipknot , KoЯn , Linkin Park , Slayer and a number of other high profile rock bands. Another Download festival was held on June 2005 , featuring a reunited Black Sabbath as well as System Of A Down , Feeder and Velvet Revolver . Donington Park is also host to a regular market. Donington Park is just off the M1 and is very close to Nottingham East Midlands Airport , and aircraft taking off fly directly over the circuit at low altitude, as can been seen from this map . |
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