Cool! Track is in surprisingly good shape for its age. Lotta potential there. Hate to go off the edge of that sucker tho'
Incredible! What a wonderful find. That would have never lasted that long untouched here in the US. It would have been torn up, or been so vandalized you couldn't recognize it.
Lets get a group of HAMBers with weedwackers and take a trip to Spain! Google Earth Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. If you go to 41 degrees 14' 196.6, 1 degree 46' 49.99 you can see it plain as day. the sweeper is now part of a road and looks almost gone.
Looks like about 1-1/4 mile oval...pretty neat & amazing it's still around. Wonder what it'd take to buy the place (I certainly am in no position to do that, but....)
Another cool old track, this time a dragstrip located in US http://www.lostindiana.net/html/us_30_drag_strip.html
That place must be in Europe (You know, where all the History comes from). If it was here, some dipshit would've broken in and crashed their car on one of the turns, then sued the owner of the land so hard the he found it cheaper to bulldoze the track instead of lettting it happen again...
Jeez, 60 degree banking! The loading on the suspension would have been brutal. At any kind of speed the car would be on the bump stops through the whole turn. Every bump would go right up your spine. I wonder how many crashes there were, how many collapsed wheels. And all this with no rollbars, no fire extinguishers and cloth helmets. Those were real men! About 10 years ago somebody asked Manfred von Bauchitsch, the pre-war Mercedes GP driver, what he thought of modern day F1 drivers. He said he thought they were "a bunch of over-paid Nancy-boys."
Maybe some UK or Swedish HAMBers can take their rides over and check it out. Forget all that Goodwood stuff, Jalopy Hoodlums invade Barcelona!
Now that would be cool !!! Imagine having a cluster of A-V8's, track-T's and Deuces roaring down that track....... stretching their "legs" and echoing the sound of their unmuffled flathead motors on the concrete banks. I looked it up on a map...... damn, it's still a long ride to get there but maybe if we put the cars on a train southbound...hmm?
You could take the German car transport train from Hamburg to Narbonne. If you start with a Gothenburg-Kiel ferrytrip there is less than half day "drive" there.
Looks like a real cool track. Here's an enhanced screenshot of the place I snapped with Google Earth...
its crazy it looks like its only a couple miles from the ocean too. and barcelona! I drove by that city a long time ago too ,wish I had known If everyone sends HAMB $500 bet we could get it~!! TP
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