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| TORINO, PIAZZA D’ARMI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Pino, Circuito del Pino - Stupinigi - Torino - Torino 1976 - Torino Aeritalia (Abarth) - Torino, Caselle - Torino, Lingotto - Torino, Mirafiori - Torino, Valentino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Street circuit that on July 5th 1953 hosted 2nd event of Italian Motorbike Championship 125 and sidecar. This event was scheduled at first on May 24th but it was posponed due to a tornado that caused many damages. This circuit was used some more times in following years, even for car races | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Torino TO - Torino - Piemonte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Around Piazza d’Armi (now Parco Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto), Torino town center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 45°02'49" + 7°39'17" 45.046944 7.654722 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 394058.132 - Y = 4989045.559 - Zone 32T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 250 m - 820 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | July 5th 1953 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Circuito motociclistico di Piazza d’Armi | |||||
| Description | La Stampa reported that the circuit is 3.86 km - 2.4 mi long. Reconstruction of the circuit I made on the aerial photos derives from a not very precise map and gives a considerably shorter length. I don’t know where the mistake is. | ||||
| Years | 1953 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | July 5th 1953 | ||||
| Closing | July 5th 1953 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 27th 2021 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Corso Galileo Ferraris - Corso Sebastopoli - Corso IV Novembre - Corso Lepanto (Corso Monte Lungo) - Corso Giovanni Pascoli - Corso Mediterraneo (Via Tirreno?) - Corso Re Umberto - Corso Galileo Ferraris | ||||
| length | 3860 m | 12664 ft | 2.399 mi | (4) | |
| length | 3345 m | 10975 ft | 2.079 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (1) |
| Difference in level | 9 m | 30 ft | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (1) | |
| Circuito di Piazza d’Armi | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 1954 | ||||
| Direction | Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | April 9th 1954 | ||||
| Closing | June 1954 | ||||
| Last update of this page | April 27th 2021 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 3522 m | 11555 ft | 2.189 mi | (5) | |
| Circuito di Piazza d’Armi | |||||
| Description | La Stampa wrote that layout changed by using Corso Giovanni Agnelli in both directions. It has 5 corners only. | ||||
| Years | 1955 | ||||
| Direction | Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | June 5th 1955 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | April 27th 2021 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 3900 m | 12795 ft | 2.423 mi | (6) | |
Circuito motociclistico di Piazza d’Armi 1953
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!)
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(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 27th 2021 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | New | Description with map | |||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
