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| SHIRAOI CAR LAND HOKKAIDO SPEEDWAY | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | The track opened in 1970 as Hokkaido Speedway. The first owner was Sakata Construction Company. The inaugural event was held on July 4th and 5th 1970. That was also the first major motor race in Hokkaido. Car Graphic of Japanese magazine (published on September 1970) reported that 32.000 spectators had come to the event. However, in 1973, the track was closed due to some fatal accidents, financial problem and noise pollution. After that the track used to use by illegal street racers and fatal accident happened. Therefore, the track cut the surface and nobody could use. (source by F1 Club No.24 of Japanese magazine published on April 19th 1999) And then, ownership of the site had changed several times but the track never reopened until 2001. According to official website of Shiraoi Car Land, SHIRAOI CARLAND,inc. established and began to rebuild the track in 1990. 11 years later, they reopened the track as Shiraoi Car Land finally. In 2002 they were opened the dirt track out side the main course. Cross country course opened in 2003. Short course was built inside the main course in 2006 and extended 400 meters in 2007. [description by Avril] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Shiraoi - Hokkaidō - Hokkaidō | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 42°30'17" +141°14'53" 42.504722 141.248056 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 520380.274 - Y = 4705847.212 - Zone 54T | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - portal.cyberjapan.jp | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 94 m - 308 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | July 4th 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hokkaido Speedway | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 1970÷1973 | ||||
| Direction | |||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | July 4th 1970 | ||||
| Closing | 1973 | ||||
| Last update of this page | November 15th 2010 | ||||
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| Shiraoi Car Land: Main Course | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2001÷... | ||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | 2001 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | November 15th 2010 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2250 m | 7382 ft | 1.398 mi | (1) | |
| length | 2564 m | 8411 ft | 1.593 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (2) |
| Width | 35 m | 115 ft | Start finish straight | (1) | |
| Min width | 15 m | 49 ft | ’S’ | (1) | |
| Max width | 45 m | 148 ft | Turn 1 | (1) | |
| Straight length | 800 m | 2625 ft | 0.497 mi | Start finish straight | (1) |
| Max. gradient | 7 ° | 12.3 % | (1) | ||
| Bend minimum radius | 35 m | 115 ft | ’S’ | (1) | |
| Max minimum radius | 300 m | 984 ft | 0.186 mi | Turn 1 | (1) |
| Max minimum radius | 300 m | 984 ft | 0.186 mi | Turn 2 | (1) |
| Shiraoi Car Land: Dirt Track | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2002÷... | ||||
| Direction | |||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Dirt Road course | ||||
| Inauguration | 2002 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | November 15th 2010 | ||||
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| Shiraoi Car Land: Cross Country Course | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2003÷... | ||||
| Direction | |||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Dirt Road course | ||||
| Inauguration | 2003 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | November 15th 2010 | ||||
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| Shiraoi Car Land: Short Course | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2006 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | 2001 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | November 15th 2010 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
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| Shiraoi Car Land: Short Course | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2007÷... | ||||
| Direction | Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | 2007 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | November 15th 2010 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 800 m | 2625 ft | 0.497 mi | (1) | |
| length | 758 m | 2488 ft | 0.471 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (3) |
| Min width | 5 m | 16 ft | (1) | ||
| Max width | 10 m | 33 ft | (1) | ||
| Straight length | 200 m | 656 ft | 0.124 mi | Start finish straight | (1) |
| Max. gradient | 1 ° | 1.7 % | (1) | ||
| Bend minimum radius | 30 m | 98 ft | (1) | ||
| Max minimum radius | 120 m | 394 ft | (1) | ||
Shiraoi Car Land
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!)
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Shiraoi Car Land: Main Course
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)
Shiraoi Car Land: Short Course (2007÷...)
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)
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| November 15th 2010 | Guido de Carli | Avril | Avril | New | Description with map | ||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
