| FRA - FRANCE | |||||||||||||||||
| BORDEAUX QUINCONCES | |||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Bordeaux-Mérignac | ||||||||||||||||
| Description | |||||||||||||||||
| Location | Bordeaux 33 - Gironde - Aquitaine | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 44°50'44" - 0°34'25" 44.845556 -0.573611 | ||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 691750.017 - Y = 4968657.944 - Zone 30T | ||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - GéoPortail | ||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 12 m - 39 ft | ||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | 1951 | ||||||||||||||||
| Closing | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||
| Designer | |||||||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Bordeaux Quinconces | |||||
| Description | Sources don’t agree about track length. Map on by The Gel Motorsport reports that it is 2.45 km - 1.4 mi long, but conversion between km and miles is wrong. | ||||
| Years | 1951÷1952 | ||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | 1951 | ||||
| Closing | 1952 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 8th 2006 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2209 m | 7248 ft | 1.373 mi | (1) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (3) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2450 m | 8038 ft | 1.522 mi | (3) | |
| length | 2548 m | 8360 ft | 1.583 mi | (4) | |
| Bordeaux Quinconces | |||||
| Description | Sources don’t agree about track length. Map on by The Gel Motorsport reports that it is 2.45 km - 1.4 mi long, but conversion between km and miles is wrong. | ||||
| Years | 1953÷1955 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 3rd 1953 | ||||
| Closing | 1955 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 8th 2006 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2209 m | 7248 ft | 1.373 mi | (1) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (3) | |
| length | 2450 m | 8038 ft | 1.522 mi | (3) | |
| length | 2548 m | 8360 ft | 1.583 mi | (4) | |
Bordeaux Quinconces (all)
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Bordeaux Quinconces 1951÷1952
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Bordeaux Quinconces 1953÷1955
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- 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)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
| PHOTOS |
| 1953÷1955 layout. Photos and description in English are by Clyde Berryman, here published with his authorization. Translation in Italian is by Guido de Carli. |
| Photos by Clyde P. Berryman - |
| Click on thumbnail to open original large photo |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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| Coming back from along the quai, the cars would turn left and go up the current Allées de Munich | The road curved around the back of the Monument au Girondins | The road behind the Monument au Girondins: cars would arrive from the right in this picture, then follow the road behind the tall monument | Monument au Girondins seen from the Cours de Tournon |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| The Monument au Girondins which dominates the Places des Quinconces around which the car went | The cars would come from the back of this picture and come to the foreground, exiting to the right (NOT the direction of arrows on the asphalt). This is now Allées de Bristol | These columns dominated the pits and the start/finish line along Quai Louis XVIII | The cars would appears from the left, go through a 180 degree hairpin turn in front of the Bourse Maritime (building on the right) and head back towards the left of the picture along Quai Louis XVIII |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| January 21st 2010 | 1953÷1955 | Guido de Carli | Clyde P. Berryman | Update | Photos (on this site) | ||
| January 8th 2008 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Map | |||
| April 8th 2006 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description | |||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
