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Top Gear's racetrack is an old airfield

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That legendary test track where supercars are pushed to their absolute limits is just flat concrete in the middle of nowhere. It is a WWII-era Canadian aviation base in England. The figure-eight design was literally just painted onto old taxiways, proving you don't need a billion-dollar racecourse to make great television.

Top Gear's racetrack is an old airfield
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