USA - UNITED STATES
SAN JOSÉ (HP PAVILION)
Not to be confused with San José (County Fairgrounds) - San José (McEnery)
Description Proposed street circuit (there were at least 3 proposals quite similar between November 2004 and January 2005). It should have been in the parking and on the streets around HP Pavilion (a stadium). Main straight should have been in the parking, parallel to an existing tramline. Chicane at the end of W Santa Clara Street, before the last corner (only in first and second proposals; in the last one it was a 90° left corner), was just the entry in the parking. Likewise, the link between S Montgomery Street and Cahill Street (present in November proposal only) should have been on an exixting parking. It should have hosted ChampCar race scheduled on June 31st 2005. Because of high cost of realization, a couple of months before the race the organizators decided to move the race few blocks far and they create in a hurry the McEnery Center circuit.
Location San José
CA - California - Western States
Location  
Latitude - Longitude + 37°20'01"     -121°54'14"
37.333611     -121.903889
UTM Coordinates X = 597101.486  -  Y = 4132445.289  -  Zone 10S
Aerial photo / Map (*) Aerial photo / Map (*) OpenStreetMap  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Google Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Bing Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Flash Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Wikimapia  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Microsoft Research Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) MapQuest
Altitude AMSL 28 m - 92 ft
Inauguration  
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) Italian mail, note Mails from Lorenzo Tommasi dated November 11th 2005, December 1st 2005 and following days.
(2) English www.d3motorsport.com/projects/SanJose/san_jose_grand_prix.html
(3) English (United States) www.sanjosegrandprix.com/event_trackmap.html
(4) English (United States) www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/14609
(5) English (United States) www.speedtv.com/articles/champcar/auto/14275

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

HP Pavilion
Description  
Years ?
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page December 18th 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 3219  m 10560  ft 2  mi   (2)

HP Pavilion
Description  
Years 2004 (11)
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page December 18th 2007
Info last update November 2004
Designer  
Distinctive points N Montgomery Street - W St. John Street - N Almaden Boulevard - W Santa Clara Street - S Montgomery Street - Cahill Street
length 3058  m 10032  ft 1.9  mi   (1)

HP Pavilion
Description  
Years 2004 (12)
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page December 18th 2007
Info last update December 2004
Designer  
Distinctive points N Montgomery Street - W St. John Street - N Almaden Boulevard - W Santa Clara Street
length 2414  m 7920  ft 1.5  mi   (1)

HP Pavilion
Description  
Years 2005 (01)
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page December 18th 2007
Info last update January 2005
Designer  
Distinctive points W Julian Street - N Montgomery Street - W St. John Street - N Almaden Boulevard - W Santa Clara Street
length 2253  m 7392  ft 1.4  mi   (1)

San José HP Pavilion: proposal November 2004

San José HP Pavilion: proposal November 2004


San José HP Pavilion: proposal December 2004

San José HP Pavilion: proposal December 2004


San José HP Pavilion: proposal January 2005

San José HP Pavilion: proposal January 2005



Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
June 18th 2007     Guido de Carli     Update Description
December 22nd 2005     Guido de Carli   Lorenzo Tommasi Update Description
December 12th 2005     Guido de Carli   Lorenzo Tommasi Update Description
December 3rd 2005     Guido de Carli Guido de Carli Lorenzo Tommasi Update Description with map
November 18th 2005     Guido de Carli   Lorenzo Tommasi Update Description
November 12th 2005     Guido de Carli Guido de Carli Lorenzo Tommasi New Description with map
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