Abandoned tracks - Page 7

NaBUru38 · 20 Aug 2018, 19:01 (Ref:3845057)

fieldodreams79, can you upload those photos to Wikipedia?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

fieldodreams79 · 20 Aug 2018, 22:52 (Ref:3845093)

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Originally Posted by NaBUru38

fieldodreams79, can you upload those photos to Wikipedia?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

I've never done so and I'd rather not put someone's photos in wikipedia. Not sure its kosher to do so here either but we're all friends here right?

NaBUru38 · 22 Aug 2018, 21:04 (Ref:3845459)

Oh, I thought the photos were yours.

fieldodreams79 · 23 Aug 2018, 00:24 (Ref:3845476)

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Oh, I thought the photos were yours.

No. The track is pretty well secure and probably only accessible by secret passage or hidden dirt entrance. Not gonna tempt getting in while driving a rental.

I did get into another one more local and I need to find those pics that I do own,

ss_collins · 24 Aug 2018, 09:42 (Ref:3845719)

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The track is pretty well secure and probably only accessible by secret passage or hidden dirt entrance. Not gonna tempt getting in while driving a rental.

Not sure about secret passages or hidden dirt entrances, but we just wandered in after parking at the driving range.

fieldodreams79 · 24 Aug 2018, 12:35 (Ref:3845766)

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Not sure about secret passages or hidden dirt entrances, but we just wandered in after parking at the driving range.

Sweet! I still have work down that way and I may just stop by and do that while dodging golf balls!

Always a bit nervous wandering into someone else's property in GA...

BudLightJaguar · 26 Aug 2018, 20:20 (Ref:3846387)

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It would be nice then to see the control tower restored to it's former glory (on the outside at least), not just a graffiti covered mess....

+1

I actually saw the tower today, it's now visible from the motorway since there are no trees around it. It looks really sorry for itself, nothing there to hint about its glory days.

**Aysedasi** · 26 Aug 2018, 20:35 (Ref:3846389)

But at least it's there. Like the restored pit buildings at Reims. Unlike Rouen where the locals have literally erased the circuit.....

dwh43scale · 26 Aug 2018, 21:10 (Ref:3846402)

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And I would love to visit Clermont-Ferrand. A beastly mini-Nurburgring in a volcano.

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/08/...rmont-ferrand/

We drove it earlier this year. It is both impressive and scary.

BudLightJaguar · 8 Sep 2018, 17:28 (Ref:3848882)

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BudLightJaguar · 9 Sep 2018, 09:32 (Ref:3849008)

Not really an abandoned track but a to-be MotoGP venue KymiRing (hopefully in 2020). I visited there yesterday.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126204...57671044512257

Mike E · 20 Dec 2018, 13:08 (Ref:3871630)

Avus grandstands to be restored/repurposed.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...de-grandstands

**Aysedasi** · 20 Dec 2018, 18:49 (Ref:3871690)

Sounds like an excellent plan.

S griffin · 20 Dec 2018, 22:22 (Ref:3871709)

Great preserve of a historic race track there

fieldodreams79 · 20 Dec 2018, 22:45 (Ref:3871714)

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Originally Posted by Mike E

Avus grandstands to be restored/repurposed.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...de-grandstands

Oh HELL yes! Thanks for sharing, Mike!

fieldodreams79 · 13 May 2020, 02:50 (Ref:3975823)

We'll be adding more to the list after 2020...

Historic Myrtle Beach Speedway to Close After 2020 Season

https://speed51.com/historic-myrtle-...r-2020-season/

coppice · 26 Jul 2021, 17:29 (Ref:4063285)

I'm currently writing a piece on Rufforth, once a regular haunt of mine . I first went in 1968 (and walked from York station !),and last visited in about '74 . I returned last week , courtesy of the Gliding Club, and it was an eerie feeling standing on the old back straight. A day or so later I spent a very enjoyable 90minutes with Brian Robinson , whose Lotus Cortina FVA was such a feature of my early visits .

Most will have seen it, but there is a marvellous YouTube film of club racing at Rufforth and Cadwell in September 1969 .

Greem · 5 Sep 2021, 09:07 (Ref:4072120)

At last, Google Maps have updated their aerial view of the former Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, UK.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BzYdqYJRcT1jm7oP7

As you can see, it's now covered in parked cars/vans/trucks etc after having been turned into a "vehicle logistics hub".

The last circuit to be built in England, and the most recent to close. As much as it was a Marmite circuit, I think it's a crying shame that it was closed and sold off just after it started to turn a profit. I quite liked marshalling there.

S griffin · 5 Sep 2021, 13:41 (Ref:4072141)

I'd echo that. It wasn't a challenging circuit like say Silverstone or Brands or Oulton, but the layout always gave us close racing whatever the formula. It's a shame it had to end, but at least it still has another use for now. Just hope it's not gone forever, even if they never race on it again. They should keep this great piece of history

The Fat Clerk · 5 Sep 2021, 14:54 (Ref:4072149)

I liked the Rally they used to run there every December.

Doing fast laps on the Oval was serious fun as well.

**Aysedasi** · 6 Sep 2021, 08:26 (Ref:4072274)

For me, the sight of any abandoned track is a sad thing. I never went to Rockingham and it doesn't have the history that other abandoned tracks have.

On a separate note, watching the Dutch GP, I was constantly thinking back to when the cars went through Tarzan and the banked turn 3 (which doesn't seem to have a name any more?). I never went there and my experience of it is limited to old videos and countless laps in GPL but looking at what has happened to the rest of the circuit on Circuits of the Past leaves me with that same disappointed feeling at the way it disappeared. I feel the same about Rouen, although that one is strange as there seems to have been a desire there to simply erase the fact that there was ever a circuit there from memory (something I've said before, but the feeling is strong).

**Aysedasi** · 6 Sep 2021, 08:55 (Ref:4072280)

Just re-read the thread - well, quite a bit of it. It's a shame that a lot of the links are now dead.

S griffin · 6 Sep 2021, 10:39 (Ref:4072312)

Could be worse, look at what happened to abandoned tracks in USA and Australia. Places like Riverside where literally no trace of the circuit exists and only certain street names give a clue to what used to be there.

crmalcolm · 6 Sep 2021, 20:15 (Ref:4072390)

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Originally Posted by Aysedasi

On a separate note, watching the Dutch GP, I was constantly thinking back to when the cars went through Tarzan and the banked turn 3 (which doesn't seem to have a name any more?).

Hugenholtzbocht.

Turns 9 & 10 seem to be nameless.

Greem · 12 Nov 2021, 17:09 (Ref:4083065)

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Originally Posted by Greem

As you can see, it's now covered in parked cars/vans/trucks etc after having been turned into a "vehicle logistics hub".

Hrm. Interestingly, I've recently seen a photo taken by one of the former full time staff from Rockingham, showing one of the safety trucks parked up on the oval at the exit of turn 4, for a private track day organised either for or by the owners.

I suppose if you have a race circuit, you might as well use it!

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