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BUCUREŞTI (193X)
Not to be confused with Bucureşti (2007÷..)
Description  
Location București / Bucarest / Bucharest
B - București - Valahia
Location  
Latitude - Longitude + 44°27'58"     + 26°05'11"
44.466111     26.086389
UTM Coordinates X = 427327.86  -  Y = 4924050.762  -  Zone 35T
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 86 m - 282 ft
Inauguration May 30th 1937
Closing June 25th 1939
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/t7.htmThe Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing
(2) English www.milermeter.com/?r=4435489Track layout
(3) English www.racingcircuits.netMotor Racing Circuits Database
(4) English www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/buchares.htmlThe GEL Motorsport - Tracks Around The World

(*) 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.

Bucureşti (193x)
Description Sources don’t agree about track lenght, but probably there is a mistyping as lenght is reported as 3107 or 3701 m. Comparing these data with reconstructed map on aerial photo, exact track lenght should be 3107 m.
Years 1937÷1939
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration May 30th 1937
Closing June 25th 1939
Last update of this page April 17th 2011
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 3700  m 12138  ft 2.299  mi   (4)
length 3107  m 10194  ft 1.931  mi   (3)
length 3701  m 12142  ft 2.3  mi   (1)
length 3010  m 9876  ft 1.871  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (2)

Bucureşti:comparison between 1937÷1939 and 2007÷... Tracks

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)


Bucureşti: 1937÷1939 circuit (approximated map)

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
April 17th 2011   1937÷1939 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli David Griac (jpm) New Description with map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list
 
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