Visualizza questa pagina in Italiano
|
HOME PAGE | Legend and translations |
AUS - AUSTRALIA | |||||||||||||
LOWOOD | |||||||||||||
Description | Track built on an airfield used for Second World War. It was used from 1948 to 1952, when Air Ministry decided to stop races. In 1956 it was bought by Queensland Racing Drivers’ Club. In 1960 it hosted Australia GP (Formula Libre). The track was finally closed in 1966, when Queensland Racing Drivers’ Club decided to concentrate on Lakeside. Today some section of the original track are nearly disappeared | ||||||||||||
Location | Lowood QLD - Queensland | ||||||||||||
Location | Approx 7 km - 4.35 mi West of Lowood | ||||||||||||
Latitude - Longitude | - 27°27'54" +152°29'20" -27.465 152.488889 | ||||||||||||
UTM Coordinates | X = 449499.884 - Y = 6961956.137 - Zone 56J | ||||||||||||
Aerial photo / Map (*) | Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - NearMap | ||||||||||||
Altitude AMSL | 70 m - 230 ft | ||||||||||||
Inauguration | 1948 | ||||||||||||
Closing | 1966 | ||||||||||||
Designer | |||||||||||||
Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
|
Lowood | |||||
Description | Sources don’t agree either on direction (according to Motor Racing Circuits Database it was clockwise, according o map published by The GEL Motorsport - Tracks Around The World is was anticlockwise) or on track length, probably because of a misunderstanding between km and miles | ||||
Years | 1948÷1952, 1956÷1966 | ||||
Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | |||||
Type | Airfield course | ||||
Inauguration | 1948 | ||||
Closing | 1966 | ||||
Last update of this page | January 25th 2008 | ||||
Info last update | |||||
Designer | |||||
Distinctive points | Mobilgas Corner - KLG Corner - Dunlop Straight - Castrol Corner - BP Corner - Bardhal Curve - MG Corner | ||||
length | 7081 m | 23231 ft | 4.4 mi | (2) | |
length | 4544 m | 14908 ft | 2.824 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (1) |
Lowood
See this track layout with milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
Updates | |||||||
Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
January 25th 2008 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description with map | |||
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list |
Webmaster:
Guido de Carli
(Italiano - English - Español)