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| WATKINS GLEN STREET CIRCUIT (1948÷1952) | |||||||||||||||||
| SORRY, SOME DATA ARE NOT TRANSLATED YET | |||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Watkins Glen - Watkins Glen Street Circuit (1953÷1955) | ||||||||||||||||
| Description | L’idea di un circuito a Watkins Glen, piccola cittadina nello stato di New York è attribuita a Cameron Argetsinger, studente di legge, che pare avesse disegnato un circuito stradale sfruttando le strade perimetrali della cittadina. La prima gara si svolse il 2 ottobre 1948. Considerato troppo pericoloso, viene deciso di costruire, nella medesima zona, un circuito permanente; nel mentre dal 1953 ci si sposta su un altro circuito stradale | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Watkins Glen NY - New York - Northeastern States | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 42°22'11" - 76°53'19" 42.369722 -76.888611 | ||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 344495.766 - Y = 4692554.863 - Zone 18T | ||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - Microsoft Research Maps - MapQuest | ||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 150 m - 492 ft | ||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | October 2nd 1948 | ||||||||||||||||
| Closing | 1952 | ||||||||||||||||
| Designer | |||||||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Watkins Glen Street Circuit (1948÷1952) | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 1948÷1952 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Road course | ||||
| Inauguration | October 2nd 1948 | ||||
| Closing | 1952 | ||||
| Last update of this page | January 14th 2011 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Old Corning Hill - Townsend Road - White House ’S’ - Underpass - School House - Stone Bridge - Archy Smith’s - Railroad Straight - Friar’s - Big Bend - Milliken’s | ||||
| length | 10621 m | 34847 ft | 6.6 mi | (2) | |
| length | 10621 m | 34847 ft | 6.6 mi | (3) | |
| length | 10401 m | 34123 ft | 6.463 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (4) |
| Difference in level | 206 m | 676 ft | 0.128 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (4) |
Watkins Glen Street Circuit: comparison between two circuits
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)
Watkins Glen Street Circuit (1948÷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
- 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)
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| January 14th 2011 | 1948÷1952 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | Mazimloyola | Update | Description with map | |
| January 6th 2011 | 1948÷1952 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | |||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
