| URU - URUGUAY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MONTEVIDEO RAMBLA SUR - PARQUE RODÓ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Montevideo, Santiago Vasquez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Montevideo - Montevideo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Playa Ramirez, Parque Rodó | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | - 34°55'09" - 56°10'11" -34.919167 -56.169722 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 575839.595 - Y = 6135606.391 - Zone 21H | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 1 m - 3 ft | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | August 17th 1947 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Designer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Circuito Rambla Sur | |||||
| Description | Sources don’t agree about direction | ||||
| Years | 1947, 1986, 2001 | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | August 17th 1947 | ||||
| Closing | November 18th 2001 | ||||
| Last update of this page | September 18th 2013 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 1849 m | 6066 ft | 1.149 mi | (5) | |
| length | 1850 m | 6070 ft | 1.15 mi | (4) | |
| length | 2074 m | 6804 ft | 1.289 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (3) |
| Montevideo Rambla Sur - Parque Rodó | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 2005 | ||||
| Direction | |||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Kart track | ||||
| Inauguration | March 5th 2005 | ||||
| Closing | March 6th 2005 | ||||
| Last update of this page | September 17th 2013 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 530 m | 1739 ft | 0.329 mi | (1) | |
| Montevideo Rambla Sur - Parque Rodó | |||||
| Description | Compared to layout used in March 2005, this layout was 30 m - 98 ft longer | ||||
| Years | 2005÷2007 | ||||
| Direction | |||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Kart track | ||||
| Inauguration | October 22nd 2005 | ||||
| Closing | October 21st 2007 | ||||
| Last update of this page | September 17th 2013 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 560 m | 1837 ft | 0.348 mi | (1) | |
Montevideo, Circuito Rambla Sur (1947, 1986, 2001)
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 done at late Parque Rodó track used for the Gran Premio Ciudad de Montevideo in August 17th, 1947 and later in 1986 and 2001 Anticlockwise track (1,85km, but I’m not sure that the races were anticlockwise) where the pits could have been either after the south hairpin looking west or closer to Playa Ramirez in front of the entrance of the Teatro de Verano. Photos and description in English by Yves-Henri Randier and reproduced with his kind permission. |
| Photos by Yves-Henri Randier - |
| Click on thumbnail to open original large photo |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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| View looking south around the Start / Finish Line on the Rambla Presidente Wilson | Turn 1 turning right climbing up Avenida Sarmiento | Avenida Sarmiento just after Turn 1 | Middle of Avenida Sarmiento but no old marking of a late chicane ! |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| Avenida Sarmiento from the top (with Playa Ramirez at the bottom), i.e. for Turn 2, a right corner | Looking downwards to what is today the Fun Park, going back downhill straight to the Rambla Presidente Wilson | Looking back uphill from the Rambla Presidente Wilson at Turn 3 (a left corner) | Looking south on the Rambla Presidente Wilson. You can see a chicane on the back left between the white and the red cars |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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| Looking backwards on the Rambla Presidente Wilson with the track coming back along Playa Ramirez on the left | From the chicane located at the bottom of Avenida Julio Maria Susa, the pits area used in 2001 in front of the Teatro de Verano when the track comes back to Playa Ramirez | From the chicane, looking south on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon before speeding up under the bridge | Opposite view over the chicane (on the right side) from Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon before walking under the bridge |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
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| Looking south on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon | From the other side of the bridge, looking north on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon on that part where high speeds should have been reached | Still looking north further south on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon when walking south | An other view still looking north (sorry for quality) further south on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon when closed to the southern tip of the track, the hairpin of Turn 4 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
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| Opposite view of n°14 towards south with the entrance of the right hairpin | View from the entrance of the hairpin looking north on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon | An other view looking east on Avenida Dr. Juan Cachon from the middle of the hairpin | Opposite view looking west on east on Rambla Presidente Wilson from the southern tip of the track, i.e. the middle of the hairpin |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| From the exit of the hairpin, watching north along the Rio de la Plata on the back straight Rambla Presidente Wilson (possible pits area on the right?) | Opposite view of the exit of the hairpin, looking south from the back straight Rambla Presidente Wilson | View of the back straight Rambla Presidente Wilson when looking south from the Turn 5 (right corner) | An good old Ford Falcon inside Turn 5 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
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| A other view from the middle of Turn 5 over the back straight Rambla Presidente Wilson (with a possible pits area on the left?) | A view of the exit of Turn 5 (pits area in 2001 on the left in front of the Teatro de Verano) | A view of the pits area and the beginning of a long bend along Playa Ramirez on Rambla Presidente Wilson | Opposite view along Playa Ramirez on Rambla Presidente Wilson which drives back to the Start / Finish Line |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| September 18th 2013 | Guido de Carli | Yves-Henri Randier | Update | Description | |||
| September 18th 2013 | Guido de Carli | Yves-Henri Randier | Update | Photos (on this site) | |||
| February 21st 2009 | Circuito Rambla Sur | 1947, 1986, 2001 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | Update | Description with map | |
| February 19th 2009 | Circuito Rambla Sur | 1947, 1986, 2001 | Guido de Carli | Update | Description | ||
| July 30th 2002 | Circuito Rambla Sur | 1947, 1986, 2001 | Guido de Carli | New | Description | ||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
