Historic circuit pics needed

[ss_collins]

Hello chaps (and chapettes)

I'm working on a project and need some unpublished / amatuer photo's of a number of historic race circuits from when they were in use, any one got any hidden away? the circuits I'm after are

Keimola
Crystal Palace
Brooklands
Sitges
Brno (all variants)
Nuburgring Sudschleife
Rouen Les Essarts
Spa - Franchorchamps (old circuit)
Solitude
Chimay
Montijuch Park
Nivelles
Mettet

Can anyone help me out as I'm trying to avoid using too many LAT shots

[Aysedasi]

I know I use the RSC forums mainly for GPL-related things, but there are very often photographs of old circuits (from around GPL-time, i.e. 1967) posted. There is in fact a feature right now on what is left of the old Keimola circuit. May not help you directly, but there may be links which you could use?

I'll post a link here later.

[Aysedasi]

e.g.

http://gplea.racesimcentral.com/

http://www.racingimages.cc/gallery.php?eid=402&page=1

This looks like a really useful site.......

http://www.racingcircuits.net/

[klaus]

hello,
try
http://home.arcor.de/sudschleife/multimedia.htm
for nurburgring südschleife.
klaus

[Extremist]

Hi, I've found some interesting pictures of old Spa circuit on

http://www.racingcircuits.net/archiv...990/index.html

[Extremist]

You can find pictures of some other tracks on http://www.racingcircuits.net/

I'm truing to find pictures of old Österreichring. It's not a project as ss_collins', it's just curiosity. Does anyone know some good site where I can find it?

[Dani Filth]

also via the GPL path ..
http://www.trilon.com/bapom/maps/index.ht

[ss_collins]

have already seen most of those ones... any budding snappers of the 50's and 60's got any stffed in a drawer or something?

[PeterMorley]

I have some original Sitges photo's mixed in with recent ones on my Sitges site:

http://users.pandora.be/les.consultants.bvba1/sitges/

[ss_collins]

those are excellent - have e-mailed you off the site.

[ss_collins]

still in real need of more pics...

add Riems to the list - I forgot to mention it - especially period pics around the pit buildings.

I'm not really after recent pics as I'm visiting all the tracks anyway once the snow cleared.

[Aysedasi]

Can I just intrude for a moment to mention this thread in "AE"?

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=48832

Perhaps its my age (and certainly my love of GPL) but I just love looking back at old pics of circuits, particularly like those at Rouen and Reims which are no longer used but where at least some of the track (and even track buildings) still remain.

I'd love to find more and I know I saw some great old pics from Monza a while ago, but I've forgotten where. Has anyone else got pics they've taken they'd like to share, or links to other good sites?

(Sorry if you've done this to death before).

[Chris Roden]

Try this thread

[GolddustMini]

woohooo GPL is still living, gotta dig my pedals out me thinks.........

[Aysedasi]

Absolutely - come and visit the GPL addicts in Armchair Enthusiast - we even have a league!

[paulzinho]

Thought i'd do a little merger!

[ss_collins]

GPL is great....

but I got a PS2 now..

Did I say I need brooklands pics too?

[GolddustMini]

ive got a rather sketchy line drawing of the sudshleife in a book somewhere, its a map of the nordshchleife and the start and finish bit (cant rememver the german for that tho!) and then shows the route of the sudshleife situated where the modern day circuit is, sadly the books at home and im not


jamie

[GolddustMini]

the same book has some awesome shots of other tracks as well, not sure what in it now aint looked at it for a few years now

[GolddustMini]

i also happen to have a copy of a 1939 video on VHS entitled "sieg, rekord, meisterschaft" which is about the pre war GP racing

[ss_collins]

Yes I have the video too - great innit?

I'd be interested to see the ring pic. _ The Sudschleife was not destroyed by the new circuit and a fair chunk of it remains

[verglas]

Mentioning picturs of old circuits reminds me of a holiday I had in Northern Portugal a few years back. I remembered that there was a circuit at Vila Real and tried hard to find it. We found part of it thanks to obvious clues such as painted kerbs and one faded street sign but sadly we had no other details so it was not possible to follow it properly. Anyone got any info on that one at all?

[GolddustMini]

ill try to get a scan of it next time im home for you SS


might be a week or so tho

[ss_collins]

Verglas tell me more

[verglas]

not much more to tell really...the circuit was a road circuit used until the mid 70's I believe, and hosted some pretty wild sports car races. It is most well known for passing the quinta (thats a winery to you and me) that can be found on the label of a bottle of Mateus Rose wine. I knew of its existence when I went on holiday (funnily enough nearly every continental holiday includes a visit to a current or disused race circuit, much to the other half's amusement!) and we spent hours trying to locate it. Someone must know a little bit more surely!