title: Hermann Tilke
text: Hermann Tilke (born December 31, 1954 in Olpe German) is an architect and designer of Formula One motor racing circuits. He is also an auto racer.
  
  Racing 
  During the 1980s, Tilke competed in touring car racing. Most of his racing was on the old Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit. He also competed in VLN endurance racing and 24 Hours Nürburgring. He and Dirk Adorf won some VLN races with a V8Star Series in 2003 and 2004.
  
  Architecture 
  Tilke established Tilke Engineering in 1984 to combine the skills in architecture, civil engineering and electronic engineering. Tilke Engineering provides complete solutions for motor racing and waste disposal projects.
  
  His first large job was in Austria, in the 1990s. He made a major redesign of the fast Österreichring, and created the much shorter A1-Ring.
  
  Tilke made changes to many established F1 circuits. Because of this, Tilke was able to earn the contracts to design many of new new, high-profile circuits from scratch. 
  
  Tilke's trademark of circuit design is a mixture long straight and tight hairpins. These are intended to encourage overtaking.
  
  Criticism 
  Tilke's circuits have been criticized for producing uninteresting races. He has been accused of "slowly killing" Formula One.
  
  List of Circuits
  Tilke has design many high-profile new world circuits from scratch. These include:
  1998 Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
  2004 Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain
  2004 Shanghai International Circuit, China
  2005 Istanbul Park Racing Circuit, Turkey
  2006 Cancun, Mexico *Undeveloped
  2006 Beijing International Streetcircuit, China
  2008 Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore *concept design
  2007 Bucharest Ring, Romania
  2008 Swedbank kartodroms, Latvia
  2008 Valencia Street Circuit, Spain
  2008 Jakarta Street Circuit, Indonesia
  2009 Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi-United Arab Emirates
  2009 Motorland Aragón, Alcaniz, Spain (MotoGP venue)
  2010 Korean International Circuit, South Korea
  2010 Moscow Raceway, Russia (Planned MotoGP Venue)
  2010 Kazakhstan Motor City, Republic of Kazakhstan
  2010 Atlanta Motorsports Park, United States of America (under construction)
  2011 Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, India 
  2012 Circuit of the Americas, United States of America (under development)
  
  References
  
  Other websites
   Tilke Engineering
   Kazakhstan Motor City 
  
  1954 births
  Living people
  
  German people
  Formula One people
  Tilke, Hermann