POR - PORTUGAL
BRAGA, VASCO SAMEIRO & KART
Description Kart track is near main straight of the main circuit
Location Braga - Braga - Portugal continental
Location  
Latitude - Longitude + 41°35'11"     - 8°26'41"
41.586389     -8.444722
UTM Coordinates X = 546283.485  -  Y = 4604003.995  -  Zone 29T
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 72 m - 236 ft
Inauguration 1993
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) Brazilian Portuguese www.allkart.net/interim.php3?templates/circuitos/braga.htm
(2) Portuguese www.camminho.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=87&Itemid=74 Map and data in brief
(3) English www.fpak.pt/Circuitos/main.htm#CIRCUITO%20DE%20BRAGA Aerial photos and data
(4) Portuguese www.kib.pt/index.php?page=kart
(5) Portuguese www.kib.pt/index.php?page=velocidade
(6) Portuguese www.terravista.pt/bilene/2331/Auto%20-%20Braga%20Track%20Info.html
(7) Italian Autosprint 25/1990 (page 70) 1990 proposal June 19th 1990
(8) Italian Autosprint 5/1994 (page 9) Aerial photo of the new circuit February 1st 1994
(9) Portuguese História Automobilismo Português 2004 (page 89) Author: José Barros Rodrigues - Published by: ACP - Published in: Portugal - ISBN: 972-8868-00-6
Description
2004

(*) 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.

Braga
Description Project dated summer 1990, completely diferent from circuit Vasco Samerio built later. It should have been inaugurated on 1993.
Years 1990
Direction  
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page July 20th 2003
Info last update June 1990
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 4167  m 13671  ft 2.589  mi   (7)

Circuito Vasco Sameiro
Description  
Years  
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit  
Motorbike circuit  
Type  
Inauguration 1993
Closing  
Last update of this page October 11th 2002
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 3020  m 9908  ft 1.877  mi   (2)
length 3020  m 9908  ft 1.877  mi   (5)
length 3021  m 9911  ft 1.877  mi   (3)
Width 10  m 33  ft      (2)
Width 11  m 36  ft    Start finish straight (5)
Min width 11  m 36  ft      (3)
Min width 11  m 36  ft      (5)
Max width 14  m 46  ft      (3)
Max width 14  m 46  ft      (5)
Straight length 898.121  m 2947  ft 0.558  mi Start finish straight (5)
Straight length 898.121  m 2947  ft 0.558  mi Start finish straight (3)
Total area 35  hectares 350000  m² 86.486  acres   (5)

Kartodromo Internacional de Braga
Description  
Years  
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit  
Motorbike circuit  
Type Kart track
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page January 21st 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 1286  m 4219  ft 0.799  mi   (2)
length 1286  m 4219  ft 0.799  mi   (4)
Min width 9  m 30  ft      (2)
Min width 10  m 33  ft      (4)
Max width 10  m 33  ft      (2)
Max width 11  m 36  ft    Start finish straight (4)
Straight length 187.45  m 615  ft 0.116  mi Longest straight (4)





Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
June 18th 2008     Guido de Carli     Update Description
January 21st 2007 Kartodromo Internacional de Braga   Guido de Carli     Update Description
October 25th 2005 Circuito Vasco Sameiro   Guido de Carli     Update Description
September 24th 2004 Circuito Vasco Sameiro   Guido de Carli     New Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list
 
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