Gary Faules found this video this morning. Like him, I can’t read Italian but the images speak for themselves. Many of our abandoned tracks here in North America are just old air fields. What a stunning location this must be to visit.
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Gary
The old track is in Spain, about 45 km west (along the coast) from Barcelona. Here is the Google maps link:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sitges-Terramar+Spain&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=27.081735,59.238281&ie=UTF8&ll=41.239028,1.780643&spn=0.015393,0.028925&t=k&z=15
The Autodromo Nacional was an amazing track! I guest there is a movement to restore it. I hope it happens.
Cheers!
Paul
This place is unreal and the history if phenomenal! If it ever does reopen I would positively go just to see it in person.
http://users.pandora.be/les.consultants.bvba1/sitges/
Hi Guys. I made a special pilgrimage to this track in January this year (2008) and am writing an article on it and also on Brooklands banked concrete racetrack in Surrey, England that ran from 1907 to 1938 (i.e. until WWII). Brooklands was the 1st ever purpose-built motor racing circuit in the world! I visited it again also in December 2007. My article’s going to compare them both from then and now as they’re sadly now both derelict. However Brooklands has a great Museum onsite whereas Sitges-Terramar has very scarey dogs and a grumpy old site owner. Peter Morley has a great website on Sitges http://users.pandora.be/les.consultants.bvba1/sitges/
and there’s similarly a good site on Brooklands by the track preservation group http://www.brooklands.org.uk/intro.htm
There is another banked concrete track from the same era just outside SW Paris at Monthlery but I couldn’t manage to visit it while we were in Paris at Christmas so I could do the write-up on all three of them as I’d planned. C’est la vie, Les