ITA - ITALY
CANDIA CANAVESE
Description During First Exhibition of Racing Cars, held from February 26th to March 6th, 1966 at Museo dell’Automobile in Turin, local Scuderia Nord Ovest (= Nirth West Team) presented a plastic model of a circuit drawn by its secretary, surveyor Francesco Cosentino. Like at Pergusa (Enna), the circuit is around Candia Lake. The proposal foresaw two different layouts, with and without three chicanes. Pits were suitable for 60 cars; tribunes and all facilities for 20000 spectators. The final cost should have been approx 1000 millions Italian Lire of that time (516.500 Euro of that time), required to ACI (Italian Automobil Club), AC Torino (Turin Automobil Club), CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) and FMI (Italian Motorcycle Federation).
At the end of 1967 this proposal was shelved.
Location Candia Canavese
TO - Torino - Piemonte
Location Around Candia Canavese Lake, 30 km North of Turin (Piedmont)
Latitude - Longitude + 45°19'29"     + 7°54'40"
45.324722     7.911111
UTM Coordinates X = 414665.081  -  Y = 5019600.584  -  Zone 32T
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
Altitude AMSL 225 m - 738 ft
Inauguration  
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) Italian Autosprint 10/1966 (page 13)Map and description
(2) Italian Autosprint 49/1967 (page 29)Article about all Italian circuits and map

(*) 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.

Candia Canavese
Description  
Years 1966
Direction  
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit YES
Type Permanent
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page April 11th 2006
Info last update November 1967
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 6839  m 22438  ft 4.25  mi With chicane (2)
length 6650  m 21818  ft 4.132  mi Without chicane (2)

without chicanes

without chicanes

without chicanes



Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
February 21st 2009   1966 Guido de Carli     Update Description
May 13th 2006   1966 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli   New Description with map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list
 
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