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New Reims-Gueux Circuit
France

New Reims-Gueux Circuit

In 2007, an architecture student from Italy named Francesco Grana contact me. He want to use some of my pictures of the Reims-Gueux Circuit for his graduation project named "New

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1936 Hungarian Grand Prix Circuit Népliget Budapest
Hungary

Népliget Budapest, the forgotten Hungarian GP Track

Népliget Budapest, the site of the 1936 Hungarian Grand Prix. An almost forgotten circuit in a park in the beautiful Hungarian capital on the Danube river. The first time I

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Riccione - Villa Mussolini
Italy

Riccione Street Circuit, Italy

The third and last circuit I visited during my vacation in Italy in 2007 was the old street circuit of Riccione. I never heard about this track, but by coincidence

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Pescara Circuit - Memorial
Italy

The longest F1 track ever: Pescara Circuit, Italy

The longest F1 track ever was not the old Nürburgring as many think. It was the iconic street circuit of Pescara in Italy. Home of the pre-war Coppa Acerbo and

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Imola Circuit - Ayrton Senna
Imola

Imola Circuit – Echoes from a Fateful Weekend

Imola Circuit, April 30, 1994... On that day Roland Ratzenberger lost his life during qualifying for the Formula One San Marino Grand Prix. A day earlier Rubens Barichello had a

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Nürburgring - Aremberg bridge
Germany

Nürburgring 2004 – Fun on the Nordschleife

On April 24, 2004 I wrote the blog post below, about my visit to the Nürburgring. Four weeks earlier I bought myself a red VW Corrado G60. So I would

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Opel-Rennbahn - Old Opel Test Track
Germany

Opel Test Track 2010 – First visit to the Opel-Rennbahn

The first time I visited the abandoned Opel Test Track (officially named Opel-Rennbahn) was in the summer of 2010. Actually I was shocked about what remained of this old banked test

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Tripoli Circuit - Grandstand
History

Tripoli Circuit – The history of Circuito di Mellaha

Rarely became a circuit that has existed such a short time so famous as the Tripoli Circuit in Libya, then a protectorate of Fascist Italy. A race fixing scandal and

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Reims Circuit - Pit lane
France

Reims Circuit France – A lap at Circuit Reims-Gueux

A photo tour around the old Reims Circuit in Northern France. The pictures are made by Herman Liesemeijer, on a rainy day in the summer of 2005. It shows all

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