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| Description | Mont Tremblant circuit is located in the surroundings of Tremblant Village, near Mont Tremblant skiing facilities, not far from Saint-Jovite in the marvellous Laurentides landscape. It was opened on August 3rd, 1964 in the shortest layout, the "Short Track" (later on renamed North Loop), a 1.5 miles long track with 12 turns. During the following year, in August, the full track was opened, extending its length to 2.65 miles with a total of 15 turns. The circuit features so many ups and downs that Jacky Stewart defined it a "mini-Nürburgring", making this track very selective and dangerous. In recent Years FIA forced the circuit owners to enlarge gravel traps and widen the roadway, in order to renew international races homologation for the track. The lack of room for gravel traps is a big trouble, especially at first turn after start because Le Diable river lies behind it not permitting any safety area extension. They looked for different solutions and decided to extend pit lane, sharpen the kink before start/finish straight and create a chicane on the inside of the long right-hander bend. Moreover the circuit layout was deeply changed at the intersection between North Loop and the remaining part of the track. A linking road, parallel to North Loop’s one, was then built to make Southern part independent, thus creating a 1.19 miles long circuit known as South Loop. Mont Tremblant hosted Canadian Formula 1 GP alternating with Mosport: after 1968 and 1970 events, 1972 GP was dropped because of safety and mostly economic issues that leaded to a temporary shut down of the circuit. From June 29th to July 1st, 2007 Mont Tremblant will host Champ Car for the first time because the Series lost its venue in Montreal. The track has not many grandstands, but a lot of natural observation spots from where you can watch the race. Most of these are far far away from circuit entrance: some of them are 2 km - 1.2 mi. away and you have to walk through the woods near the track to reach them. For 2008 race they planned to prepare a motorhome camping area to improve hospitality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | St Denis QC - Québec - Eastern Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latitude - Longitude | + 46°11'37" - 74°36'39" 46.193611 -74.610833 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 530028.815 - Y = 5115632.967 - Zone 18T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - MapQuest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 231 m - 758 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | August 3rd 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mont-Tremblant | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 1964÷1965 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | August 3rd 1964 | ||||
| Closing | 1965 | ||||
| Last update of this page | June 20th 2007 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Conner - Le Diable - Esses - Gulch - Bridge - Kink - Namerow | ||||
| length | 2414 m | 7920 ft | 1.5 mi | Full circuit | (12) |
| Mont-Tremblant | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 1965÷2001 | ||||
| Direction | Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 20th 2007 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Conner - Le Diable - Esses - Hump - Gulch - Bridge - Kink - Namerow | ||||
| length | 4265 m | 13992 ft | 2.65 mi | Full circuit | (12) |
| length | 4265 m | 13992 ft | 2.65 mi | Full circuit | (3) |
| length | 4274 m | 14022 ft | 2.656 mi | Full circuit | |
| length | 2510 m | 8235 ft | 1.56 mi | North Course | (3) |
| length | 1754 m | 5755 ft | 1.09 mi | South Course | (3) |
| length | 1760 m | 5774 ft | 1.094 mi | South Course | |
| Mont-Tremblant | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2002÷... | ||||
| Direction | Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 20th 2007 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Conner - Le Diable - Esses - Hump - Gulch - Bridge - Kink - Namerow - Paddock | ||||
| length | 4260 m | 13976 ft | 2.647 mi | Full circuit | (12) |
| length | 2460 m | 8071 ft | 1.529 mi | North Course | (12) |
| length | 1910 m | 6266 ft | 1.187 mi | South Course | (12) |
| Width | 11 m | 36 ft | (12) | ||
Mont-Tremblant 1964÷1965
Mont-Tremblant 1965÷2001
Mont-Tremblant 2002÷... - Full course
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| September 3rd 2007 | micap | Update | Description without map | ||||
| June 20th 2007 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Description | ||||
| May 29th 2007 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Map | |||
| August 12th 2005 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| March 3rd 2003 | Guido de Carli | New | Description | ||||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
