HLR Circuit
| HLR Circuit | |
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| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Races | Round of British Columbia TM Lights @ British Columbia TM Canada |
The HLR Circuit is a 3.351-mile (5.393-km), 18-turn road course located near Vancouver, British Columbia.
It hosts the Round of British Columbia in the TM Master Cup as well as the 2011 TM Lights Round of British Columbia. TM Canada races here also, calling it the TM Canada Round of British Columbia. The race here, until 2014, was the final race in the battle for the Independent's Trophy.
It is regarded by the drivers to be one of the best tracks on the calendar.
TM Master Cup Series[edit | edit source]
The TM Master Cup series first visited the HLR Circuit in 1992 and ran one race a year (exception being in 1999 when there were two races) at the venue until 2004. It was brought back on the calendar in 2011 where it produced a wild and crazy race which was eventually won by local man Marcos Leonard after rain postponed the race from Sunday to Monday.
TM Lights[edit | edit source]
TM Lights first visited the HLR Circuit in 2004, and after the TM Master Cup date was canned, the TM Lights date went with it. Once the track returned to the TM Master Cup series calendar, the TM Lights returned as well. The HLR Circuit was the site of Paul Farr's only TM Lights win, while Curtis Darcy won in 2011 driving for Lenard.
Non-canon notes[edit | edit source]
The track is actually called Hot Lap Raceway GP layout. It is one of Cynon's first successful geometry edits to a track (turn 3 used to have ridiculous amounts of banking). GOMA (then ISRA) ran a Formula 5 race at the track for Season 8 with Josh Batista blowing everyone's doors off due to being too damn fast.