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ERI - ERITREA |
| ASMARA (AUTODROMO) |
| Not to be confused with |
Asmara |
| Description |
Autosprint published (I don’t know when, but before # 12/1973) that there is a remote possibility of build a permanent track at Asmara. The circuit should have been very fast, similar to the old one at Tripoli. Later John Hugenholtz, Zandvoort director and designer of several tracks, got in touch with Eritrea Automobile Club for seeing the lie of the land. I have no more info. |
| Location |
Asmara - Regione Centrale / Central |
| Location |
NOTE: Eritrea was an Italian colony from 1890 to 1941 and from 1936 to 1941 it was included in Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian Eastern Africa, A.O.I.) toghether with Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. With the defeat of Italy in 1941 Great Britain governed Eritrea as a protectorate ruled it as "Occupied Enemy Territory." On December 2th 1950 UN passed a resolution that formally federated Eritrea to Ethiopia. In September 1952, the agreement was put into practice and Ethiopians replaced the British. After a very long war, Eritrea declared its indepence on May 24th 1993. |
| Latitude - Longitude (approx) |
+ 15°20'00" + 38°56'00" (approx)
15.333333 38.933333 (approx) |
| UTM Coordinates (approx) |
X = 492844.022 - Y = 1695195.745 - Zone 37P (approx) |
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |
 OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia |
| Altitude AMSL (approx) |
2200 m - 7218 ft (approx) |
| Inauguration |
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| Closing |
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| Designer |
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| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
| (1) |
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Autosprint 4/1970 (page 13) | Proposal for a fast car track, similar to old Tripoli one | | (2) |
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Autosprint 48/1972 (page 25) | Very short info about a proposed circuit | | (3) |
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Autosprint 13/1973 (page 46) | |
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Proposal
