| FRA - FRANCE | |||||||||||||
| ANGOULÊME, REMPARTS | |||||||||||||
| Description | Street circuit, used from 1939, 1947-1951 e 1955. From 1978 it hosts a historical revival, event that is still alive today. | ||||||||||||
| Location | Angoulême 16 - Charente - Poitou-Charentes | ||||||||||||
| Location | approx. 120 km - 75 mi North East of Bordeaux | ||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 45°38'56" + 0°09'05" 45.648889 0.151389 | ||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 278036.419 - Y = 5058985.049 - Zone 31T | ||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - GéoPortail | ||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 77 m - 253 ft | ||||||||||||
| Inauguration | 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Closing | |||||||||||||
| Designer | |||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Circuit des Remparts | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | 1939 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | December 27th 2002 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Rempart Desaix - Avenue des Maréchaux - Rue Carnot - Rue Louis Desbrandes - Rue Waldeck-Rousseau - Rue du Colonel Driant - Avenue Verdun - Place Saint Pierre | ||||
| length | 1287 m | 4222 ft | 0.8 mi | ||
Angoulême - Circuit des Remparts
| PHOTOS |
| Photos taken on Spring 2005, already posted on Atlas F.1 - The Nostalgia Forum - A walk around Angoulême and here published with author’s permission. Comments by Barry Boor slighty modified; Italian translation is mine. Numbers on the map will be referred to as you work your way down the images, which are in sequence around the lap in the direction the cars travelled unless stated otherwise Angoulême is a remarkable race circuit. Less than a mile long, it makes Montecarlo and Pau look like the wide open prairies.... Indeed, a couple of the corners look too tight to get anything round in one go. |
| Photos by Barry Boor - 2005 |
| Click on thumbnail to open original large photo |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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| The grid forms up in front of the Cathedral St. Pierre; with the start line just a little way down the road | The corner is not the one to the left, but is over by those parked cars (that you can see also on #5) |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| Looking back towards #5 (as reference, note the blue van) |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 |
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| Looking back towards #8 | Looking back towards #9 | Taken from same place as previous image but looking in direction of travel. | Looking back towards #10 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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| The next corner, a hairpin, is by the big tree in the centre of this picture (you can see it in #16) |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
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| Hairpin exit. You can see Citroën AX (only front section) and Peugeot 307CC visible also in #16 | Looking back down towards the hairpin |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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| Looking back down towards #21 |
| 24 | 25 | 25 | |
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| Taken from same point as previous image but looking back towards final corner |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| March 17th 2006 | Circuit des Remparts | Guido de Carli | Mark | Update | Description | ||
| June 4th 2005 | Circuit des Remparts | Guido de Carli | Barry Boor | New | Photos (on this site) | ||
| June 4th 2005 | Circuit des Remparts | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | New | Description with map | ||
| January 21st 2003 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
