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"The battle continues on European soil at Istanbul Park
By: Berthold Bouman, F1 Correspondent

The Istanbul Park circuit in Turkey will host round four of the 2011 FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) Formula One World Championship. The circuit is situated in the eastern Asian part of Turkey, 50 km of the city of Istanbul, while the city itself is situated on both the Asian and European continents, separated by the famous Bosphorus Straight. Istanbul, or Constantinople as the city was known in the past, is Turkey’s largest city with 13 million inhabitants, the by Hermann Tilke designed circuit joined the Formula One calendar in 2005, and is very popular with the drivers for its unique features, most notably, Turn 8 -- a sequence of very fast anti-clockwise high-speed corners. "

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