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BAH - BAHAMAS
FREEPORT
SORRY, SOME DATA ARE NOT TRANSLATED YET
Description Both circuits reported here lay around Casino, so I think that they were in the same area, even if track layouts are completely different.
Location Freeport
City of Freeport (Grand Bahama)

Around Freeport Casino
Latitude - Longitude + 26°31'09"     - 78°41'53"
26.519167     -78.698056
UTM Coordinates X = 729388.52  -  Y = 2935238.569  -  Zone 17R
Aerial photo / Map (*) Aerial photo / Map (*) OpenStreetMap  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Google Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Bing Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Zoom Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Wikimapia
Altitude AMSL 5 m - 16 ft
Inauguration 1967
Closing 1990
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English app.myracingcareer.com/en/track/fpt
(2) English www.racingcircuits.info/north-america/the-bahamas/freeport.html Racingcircuits.info
(3) English www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/freeport.html
(4) Italian Autosprint 2/1968 (page 21) Mappa January 8th 1968
(5) English Autosport (UK) December 20th 1984 (page 33) Map December 20th 1984

(*) 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.

Freeport
Description Circuit used - probably for the first time - for traditional Speedweek Bahamas at the end of 1967. Direction clockwise is to be confirmed
Years 1967÷?
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration 1967
Closing  
Last update of this page March 5th 2006
Info last update January 1968
Designer  
Distinctive points Kate's Kurve - Holiday Straight - Freeport Corner - Alco Twist - Lucaway Straight-Away - Dale's Alley - Silvera Corner - Puck's (?) Bend - Oceanus Bend - Groves Bend

Freeport
Description Circuit used for the first time for Grand Bahama Vintage Speed Week, from December 1st to 8th 1984. According to racingcircuits.info it was used again from 1986 to 1990.
Years 1984, 1986÷1990
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration December 1st 1984
Closing 1990
Last update of this page November 21st 2024
Info last update December 20th 1984
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 2092  m 6864  ft 1.3  mi   (2)
length 2414  m 7920  ft 1.5  mi   (5)
length 2092  m 6864  ft 1.3  mi   (1)

Freeport

Freeport


Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
November 21st 2024     Guido de Carli     Update Description
April 30th 2006   1967÷? 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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