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FLOREFFE
Description  
Location Floreffe - Namur / Namen - Wallonie / Wallonië
Location  
Latitude - Longitude + 50°24'25"     + 4°46'01"
50.406944     4.766944
UTM Coordinates X = 625555.889  -  Y = 5585370.277  -  Zone 31U
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 210 m - 689 ft
Inauguration 1925
Closing 1956
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English Google Earth
(2) English Forum Benelux --> BEL - Floreffe [ENG]
(3) English forums.autosport.com (...) Autosport.com Bulletin Board --> The Nostalgia Forum --> Floreffe - A little known Belgian track
(4) English velobanjogent.blogspot.com (...)
(5) English www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1492458 Track layout
(6) English www.racingcircuits.net Motor Racing Circuits Database

(*) 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.

Floreffe
Description  
Years 1925÷1956
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit  
Motorbike circuit YES
Type Road course
Inauguration 1925
Closing 1956
Last update of this page December 18th 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 13500  m 44291  ft 8.389  mi    
length 13600  m 44619  ft 8.451  mi   (6)
length 13480  m 44226  ft 8.376  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (5)

Floreffe
Description Circuit roughly triangular. According to one source (that is not too accurate regarding other tracks) it was used for 1936 Belgian motorbike Grand Prix, but I have no more info. According to this rough sketch, Roelard Smit drawn on aerial photo an hypothetic map that is to be confirmed
Years 1936
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit  
Motorbike circuit YES
Type Road course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page May 10th 2011
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 11463  m 37608  ft 7.123  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (1)

Floreffe: comparison between track layouts

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 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)

Floreffe 1925÷1956

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)

Floreffe 1936 (hypothesis to be confirmed)

Floreffe 1936 (hypothesis to be confirmed)

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 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
May 11th 2011   1936 Guido de Carli Roelard Smit Roelard Smit Update Description with map
May 10th 2011   1936 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli micap Update Description with map
December 3rd 2008   1925÷1956 Guido de Carli     Update Description
December 18th 2007   1925÷1956 Lorenzo Tommasi Lorenzo Tommasi   Update Map
February 5th 2007   1925÷1956 Guido de Carli     New Description without map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list
 
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