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WESTERN SPEEDWAY
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Description Circuito avente un ovale di 2/5 miglia, una drag strip usando parte del rettilineo di partenza e un tracciato, interno, a forma di otto. Presenta inoltre sul rettilineo oppsoto al traguardo una tribuna da 4.500 posti e un parcheggio, con annesso un parco acquatico, da 1.500 posti. Ha subito profonde opere di miglioramento nel 2004.
Location Langford
BC - British Columbia - Western Canada

Western Speedway
2207 Millstream Road
Langford, BC, Canada
Latitude - Longitude + 48°28'26"     -123°29'59"
48.473889     -123.499722
UTM Coordinates X = 463065.712  -  Y = 5369093.786  -  Zone 10U
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Altitude AMSL  
Inauguration 1954
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English www.westernspeedway.bc.ca Official website
(2) English (United States) www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/CAN/BC/Western.html North American Motorsports Pages
(3) English (United States) www.trackchaser.net/regions.asp?rgid=BC

(*) 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.

Western Speedway
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Description Nato come tracciato ovale di 1/2 miglio, è stato riconvertito nel Giugno 1957 in ovale asfaltato di 0,4 miglia
Years 1954÷1957
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Dirt Oval course
Inauguration 1954
Closing June 1957
Last update of this page February 23rd 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 805  m 2640  ft 1/2  mi    

Western Speedway
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Description Costruito un ovale di 0.4 miglia, riconvertendo l'ovale sterrato da 1/2 miglio
Years 1957÷...
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Oval course
Inauguration 1957
Closing  
Last update of this page February 23rd 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 644  m 2112  ft 0.4  mi    

Western Speedway
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Description Tracciato stradale adiacente all'ovale; vi si è corso fino al 1983. Successivamente chiuso, e dedicatisi alle gare dragster, il circuito stradale è stato riconvertito in parco giochi acquatico
Years 1966÷1983
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration 1966
Closing 1983
Last update of this page February 23rd 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length (approx) 1609  m 5280  ft 1  mi    

Western Speedway
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Description Secondo Alan E. Brown, The History of America's Speedways: Past & Present, vi sarebbe stato un tracciato ovale interno a quello di 0,4 miglia
Years 1968÷1971
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Oval course
Inauguration 1968
Closing 1971
Last update of this page February 23rd 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 322  m 1056  ft 0.2  mi    

Dragstrip
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Description Dragstrip costruita, probabilmente, sfruttando il rettilineo sotto le tribune
Years 1984÷...
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Asphalted Drag strip
Inauguration May 1984
Closing  
Last update of this page February 23rd 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 152  m 500  ft       

Pista a figura di 8
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Description Pista asfaltata sfruttando la parte interna dell'ovale
Years 2000÷...
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Oval course
Inauguration 2000
Closing  
Last update of this page February 23rd 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  


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February 23rd 2007     Guido de Carli        
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