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| BORDEAUX QUINCONCES | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Bordeaux-Mérignac | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |
Bordeaux 33 - Gironde - Nouvelle-Aquitaine (ex Aquitaine) |
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| Latitude - Longitude |
+ 44°50'44" - 0°34'25" 44.845556 -0.573611 |
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| UTM Coordinates | X = 691750.017 - Y = 4968657.944 - Zone 30T | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |
 OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Zoom Earth - Wikimapia - GéoPortail
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| Altitude AMSL | 12 m - 39 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | 1951 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Bordeaux Quinconces | |||||
| Description | Sources don't agree about track length. Map on by The Gel Motorsport reports that it is 2.45 km - 1.4 mi long, but conversion between km and miles is wrong. | ||||
| Years | 1951÷1952 | ||||
| Direction |
 Anticlockwise
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 Proposal
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NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | 1951 | ||||
| Closing | 1952 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 8th 2006 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2209 m | 7248 ft | 1.373 mi | (3) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (1) | |
| length | 2450 m | 8038 ft | 1.522 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2548 m | 8360 ft | 1.583 mi | (4) | |
| Bordeaux Quinconces | |||||
| Description | Sources don't agree about track length. Map on by The Gel Motorsport reports that it is 2.45 km - 1.4 mi long, but conversion between km and miles is wrong. | ||||
| Years | 1953÷1955 | ||||
| Direction |
 Clockwise
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Proposal
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NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | May 3rd 1953 | ||||
| Closing | 1955 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 8th 2006 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2209 m | 7248 ft | 1.373 mi | (3) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (1) | |
| length | 2253 m | 7392 ft | 1.4 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2450 m | 8038 ft | 1.522 mi | (2) | |
| length | 2548 m | 8360 ft | 1.583 mi | (4) | |
Bordeaux Quinconces (all)
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
(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)
Bordeaux Quinconces 1951÷1952
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
(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)
Bordeaux Quinconces 1953÷1955
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
(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)
Bordeaux Quinconces
See this track layout with 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)
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PHOTOS BORDEAUX QUINCONCES |
| Configurazione del 1953÷1955. Foto e descrizioni in inglese di Clyde Berryman, qui pubblicate con il suo consenso. La traduzione in italiano è di Guido de Carli. |
| Photos by Clyde P. Berryman - |
| Click on thumbnail to open original large photo |
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| Tornando indietro dal lungofiume, le macchine curvavano a sinistra per andare sull'attuale Allées de Munich | La strada girava intorno al Monument au Girondins | La strada dietro al Monument au Girondins: le macchine arrivavano dalla destra di questa foto, quindi seguivano la strada dietro al monumento | Monument au Girondins visto da Cours de Tournon |
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| Il Monument au Girondins che domina la Places des Quinconces intorno a cui passavano le macchine | Le macchine venivano dallo sfondo della foto verso il primo piano e continuavano sulla destra (NON in direzione delle frecce sull'asfalto). Questa ora è Allées de Bristol | Queste colonne dominavano i box e la linea del traguardo lungo Quai Louis XVIII | Le macchine apparivano da sinistra, continuavano fino ad un tornantino a 180 gradi davanti alla Bourse Maritime (edificio sulla destra) e quindi tornavano verso sinistra lungo Quai Louis XVIII |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| January 21st 2010 | 1953÷1955 | Guido de Carli | Clyde P. Berryman | Update | Photos (on this site) | ||
| January 8th 2008 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Map | |||
| April 8th 2006 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description | |||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
