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| CASTELFUSANO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SORRY, SOME DATA ARE NOT TRANSLATED YET | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Circuito Ostiense - Roma (1912) - Roma, Acqua Traversa - Roma, Colle Ferro - Roma, EUR (Formula E) - Roma, EUR F.1 (1985) - Roma, EUR F.1 (201x) - Roma, EUR kart (2004) - Roma, Grotta Perfetta - Roma, Monte Mario - Roma, Parioli / Valle Giulia - Roma, Pista del Littorio - Roma, Prenestino - Roma, Terme di Caracalla - Roma, Tre Fontane - Roma, Tre Monti - Torricola | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Street circuit used for Roma GP in 1954 and 1955, after Circuito delle Terme di Caracalla and before Vallelunga circuits was built. On March 9th 1985 the newspaper La Repubblica reported a proposal for a circuit to be used for Rome F.1 (already scheduled on October 13th 1985), as alternative of the "usual" proposal at EUR. On March 16th 1985 the race was finally canceled. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Castelfusano RM - Roma - Lazio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | In Castelfusano pineta (pine wood), few km South East of Lido di Ostia (Roma, Lazio), where there was Circuito dell’Impero. The long straight is on final section of Via Cristoforo Colombo, a long street that start from Rome (more than 20 km far). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 41°43'42" + 12°19'39" 41.728333 12.3275 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 277721.673 - Y = 4623065.843 - Zone 33T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 15 m - 49 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Castelfusano | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 1954÷1956 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Road course | ||||
| Inauguration | 1954 | ||||
| Closing | 1956 | ||||
| Last update of this page | March 22nd 2012 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Viale Mediterraneo - Viale del Circuito - Via Cristoforo Colombo - Viale del Gran Pavese | ||||
| length | 6582 m | 21594 ft | 4.09 mi | ||
| length | 6651 m | 21820 ft | 4.133 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (4) |
Castelfusano
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)
| PHOTOS |
| Photos by Guido de Carli - November 3rd 2003 |
| Click on thumbnail to open original large photo |
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| Via Cristoforo Colombo. This picture was taken more or less where there is red arrow on my map, looking in sea direction (same as original circuit). Unfortunately, it’s a low quality photo because it was taken from a bus. |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| March 21st 2012 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| May 2nd 2004 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||||
| November 4th 2003 | Guido de Carli | Update | Photos (on this site) | ||||
| July 20th 2003 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | New | Description with map | |||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
