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It is the venue for the Formula One San Marino Grand Prix (usually, two Grands Prix are held in Italy every year, so the race held at Imola is named after the nearby principality) and it also hosted the 1980 edition of the Italian Grand Prix, which usually takes place in Monza.
Imola, as it is colloquially known, is one of the minority of circuits which go in an anti-clockwise direction.
Following the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at this circuit, revisions were made in an attempt to make the circuit safer. Many say that, as such, the circuit is not what it used to be. Coupled with deteriorating facilities, there is talk of the San Marino Grand PrixThe San Marino Grand Prix is a Formula One championship race which has been run at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in the small town of Imola, near the Apennine mountains in Italy, since 1981. It is called the San Marino Grand Prix because there is alre being taken off the Formula One calendar.