by stubuchanan » Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:57 am
What a fascinating collection. I'm most surprised to find that the French went in for grass-track racing, even in the south where things can be a bit different. The site is mostly about events in Angouleme, a town about 100 km N of Bordeaux, and there is a lot more motor racing content.
Angouleme was a street race circuit, where races were held from late 1930's to 1955, and was typical of French and Belgian and Italian minor races of the period, for sports cars, Formula 2, 500cc Formula 3 or whatever else a field could be made up from.
If you click on "Accueil" on the site("Home"), you find 2 albums of "Circuit des Remparts" race pictures in colour and B&W (N&B in French) on a circuit which is small, even by NZ standards, at 1.289 km or 0.8 miles per lap. Fangio won the F2 race in 1950 and his fastest lap(of the 130) worked out at 45.1 mph - the lap includes a 3-hairpin zigzag leading from the lowest point to the top of the ramparts and cathedral. In recent years it has become the venue for an annual Classic Racing car event and would be well worth a visit .
My (unsuspecting) wife and I walked up the hairpins while doing the big "OE" in 1970 - bollards stopped up driving up.
Stu
[quote="Kwaussie"]Fun stuff once you work out how to use the site!
[url]http://www.christian-claude.com/grasstrack_auto.html[/url][/quote]
What a fascinating collection. I'm most surprised to find that the French went in for grass-track racing, even in the south where things can be a bit different. The site is mostly about events in Angouleme, a town about 100 km N of Bordeaux, and there is a lot more motor racing content.
Angouleme was a street race circuit, where races were held from late 1930's to 1955, and was typical of French and Belgian and Italian minor races of the period, for sports cars, Formula 2, 500cc Formula 3 or whatever else a field could be made up from.
If you click on "Accueil" on the site("Home"), you find 2 albums of "Circuit des Remparts" race pictures in colour and B&W (N&B in French) on a circuit which is small, even by NZ standards, at 1.289 km or 0.8 miles per lap. Fangio won the F2 race in 1950 and his fastest lap(of the 130) worked out at 45.1 mph - the lap includes a 3-hairpin zigzag leading from the lowest point to the top of the ramparts and cathedral. In recent years it has become the venue for an annual Classic Racing car event and would be well worth a visit .
My (unsuspecting) wife and I walked up the hairpins while doing the big "OE" in 1970 - bollards stopped up driving up.
Stu