Jacarepaguá ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒakaɾepaˈɡwa]), with a land area of 29.27 square miles (75.8 km2), is a neighborhood situated in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2 ] In 2010, it had a population of 157,326.
It's more than a little ironic that, at around the same time as Russia was busily building its new Winter Olympics-cum-F1 Tilkedrome at Sochi, authorities in Brazil were beginning the process to tear down one of their most successful…
English: Jacarepaguá AKA Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet. Note: The old image below shouldn't be deleted as it appears to show a different version of the course.