Most Wins: Lewis Hamilton (106) • Most Titles: M. Schumacher & L. Hamilton (7) • 77 Seasons Since 1950 • 1,159 Races in Database • 818 Drivers Tracked • Most Wins: Lewis Hamilton (106) • Most Titles: M. Schumacher & L. Hamilton (7) • 77 Seasons Since 1950 • 1,159 Races in Database • 818 Drivers Tracked •
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Jarama

Madrid, Spain · 9 races held

Race History

YearGrand PrixWinnerTeam
1981 Spanish Grand Prix Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari
1979 Spanish Grand Prix Patrick Depailler Ligier
1978 Spanish Grand Prix Mario Andretti Team Lotus
1977 Spanish Grand Prix Mario Andretti Team Lotus
1976 Spanish Grand Prix James Hunt McLaren
1974 Spanish Grand Prix Niki Lauda Ferrari
1972 Spanish Grand Prix Emerson Fittipaldi Team Lotus
1970 Spanish Grand Prix Jackie Stewart March
1968 Spanish Grand Prix Graham Hill Lotus-Ford

About Jarama

The Circuito del Jarama, just north of Madrid, was designed by the renowned circuit architect John Hugenholtz and opened in the late 1960s. It hosted the Spanish Grand Prix on nine occasions between 1968 and 1981, sharing the national race with Barcelona's Montjuïc Park circuit through the early 1970s before becoming its more permanent home.

A compact, tightly wound track in the dry hills of central Spain, Jarama fell off the Formula 1 calendar after 1981 as the sport's cars grew faster and demanded more space than its narrow confines could safely offer. It remains active today for national and historic motorsport events.

Memorable Moments

  • 1968: Graham Hill won the circuit's first Spanish Grand Prix for Lotus, a season that would end with his second World Championship.
  • 1977: Mario Andretti took the first of his back-to-back Jarama wins for Lotus, the ground-effect era beginning to take shape.
  • 1979: Patrick Depailler took victory for Ligier during the French team's strong campaign.
  • 1981: In one of the great defensive drives, Gilles Villeneuve held off a queue of faster cars in his unwieldy Ferrari, the top five finishing within just over a second of each other.

Track Character

Jarama is a short, twisty and largely point-and-squirt circuit, a tangle of tight, low- and medium-speed corners with little in the way of long straights. Its narrow width made overtaking notoriously difficult, which placed enormous value on track position and turned races into processional battles of patience and defence, as Villeneuve's legendary 1981 win demonstrated. Demanding on brakes and rewarding precise, rhythmic driving, the Madrid circuit favoured nimble, well-balanced cars over raw horsepower.