Streets named after racing drivers
#151
Posted 28 December 2006 - 18:51
Should be interesting living within the confines of a former race complex where you turned so many laps.
Henry
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#152
Posted 25 February 2007 - 13:56
Looking down Dave MacDonald Drive (with new houses) toward Glenn Roberts Drive and Frank Warren Drive and the former road race circuit.
Looking up Dave MacDonald Drive where it is being extended toward Ted Tidwell Drive and Ken Miles Drive.
Henry
#153
Posted 25 February 2007 - 18:05
#154
Posted 04 November 2007 - 12:20
Originally posted by fines
After Paul Greifzu died in 1952, a street in his hometown (?) Riesa was named "Paul-Greifzu-Straße".
I live in Riesa and it's not Paul Greifzu's hometown - he's from Suhl. But that certain street is still there and there's still the tyre-factory that produced the tyres he drove...
#155
Posted 04 November 2007 - 13:36
It would probably be easier to name the streets that are not named after racing drivers but here are the better known ones.
Via Lorenzo Bandini
Via Tazio Nuvolari
Via Eugenio Castelotti
Via Piero Taruffi
Via Musso
Via Alberto Ascari
Via Gilles Villenueve
Via Alfredo Dino Ferrari - no apology for including poor Dino
If you have not been to Maranello go now. It is a magical place for anyone with a passion for motor racing.
#157
Posted 05 November 2007 - 20:12
There is a "Rue Maurice Trintignant" in Elancourt and a "Rue Saarinen" in Rungis (also close to Paris), although I doubt there's a direct connection in either case.
#158
Posted 06 November 2007 - 10:39
#159
Posted 15 December 2007 - 23:30
But - amazingly - there's also a rue SCH Davis!
#161
Posted 26 June 2008 - 02:19
Here in Colorado, there's an entire town named for Hotchkiss.
Here in Lakewood, I live on Pierce Street (as in -Arrow), a stone's throw from Harlan Street, where Bocars were built. Must lobby the city council to rename that either Bocar Boulevard or Bob Carnes Road.
In Montvale, New Jersey, Mercedes-Benz USA is headquartered at One Mercedes Drive, both an address and an instruction.
Frank
#162
Posted 26 June 2008 - 14:43
Close by, there is a group of roads named after British cars, Hotchkiss being one of them, plus Daimler, Bentley and Siddeley.
In a newish development in Duston, Northampton, there is a set of roads named after British motorcycles, including Triumph Gardens and Velocette Way.
I occasionally pass Graham Hill in Silverstone and it always makes me smile.
#163
Posted 27 June 2008 - 03:59
#164
Posted 27 June 2008 - 18:50
#165
Posted 28 June 2008 - 17:58
Originally posted by LotusElise
Close by, there is a group of roads named after British cars, Hotchkiss being one of them, plus Daimler, Bentley and Siddeley.
#166
Posted 28 June 2008 - 20:17
They definitely produced cars, I know about the Hotchkiss Grand Sport from the 30s. It sounded like an English name, and we used their guns during the war!
#167
Posted 28 June 2008 - 20:26
Actually, car maker Benjamin Hotchkiss was an American, born in Watertown, Connecticut in 1826. A designer in the family engineering business, he developed a passion for weapons, but failing to interest the U.S. in his designs, moved to France and in 1867 established the Hotchkiss company, which built guns for the French. After he died in 1885, the company continued his efforts to develop an automatic machine-gun. Besides diversifying into civilian cars, Hotchkiss also built military vehicles for the French.
Frank
#168
Posted 28 June 2008 - 20:41
I remember about the machine guns from GCSE History now.
#169
Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:22
Well, Daimler sounds like a German name (and moreover, it is!;)), shall we now claim their cars?Originally posted by LotusElise
It sounded like an English name, and we used their guns during the war!
#170
Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:39
Gottlieb Daimler was German, but the Daimler Motor Company is British.
We have claims on the limousines, but claiming the great early racers would be pushing it, I think.
#171
Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:41
#172
Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:49
#173
Posted 28 June 2008 - 22:16
#174
Posted 28 June 2008 - 22:17
Actually, given the Hotchkiss oversight, I'm not sure which Daimler the Daventry town planners named the street after, anyway.
#175
Posted 28 June 2008 - 22:24
#176
Posted 29 June 2008 - 05:57
Drivers:
Fangio Place
Clark Road
Moss Road
Malcolm Road
Petersen Place (Think this might be named after someone else though because of the spelling?)
Hocking Place
Donald Road
Circuits:
Monte Carlo Road
Goodwood Road
Monza Road
Leeukop Road
Hesketh Road
Imola Place
Le Mans Place
Kyalami Road
Monaco Place
Daytona Place
Suzuka Road
Hillclimb Road
Originally posted by Chris Bloom
The Westmead Industrial Estate in Pinetown, South Africa, where I live was home to the Natal GP in 1961/1962. Parts of the track still exist as normal roads, also most of the roads have racing heritage; Clark, Kyalami etc.. One day I will create a complete photo story on what remains of the circuit and the legacy it has left behind!
#177
Posted 29 June 2008 - 09:11
Shame they never left the circuit there though.
#178
Posted 02 July 2008 - 17:30
#179
Posted 02 July 2008 - 18:10
Originally posted by Chris Bloom
I don't know if the roads in Westmead will carry those names for much longer. A lot of street names in Durban are being changed at the moment. I don't know if any of the roads I listed will be affected, I don't think so, for now at least. Snell Parade which was the start/finish straight for the A1 GP circuit is apparently getting renamed though
...yes, streets are now named after hardcore criminals!! Only in Africa, I presume...??!!
#181
Posted 14 February 2010 - 21:50
#182
Posted 20 March 2010 - 12:08
Edited by Vitesse2, 20 March 2010 - 12:09.
#183
Posted 21 March 2010 - 10:45
#184
Posted 21 March 2010 - 11:35
#185
Posted 21 March 2010 - 17:45
He'd be the bloke on the left in this picture David:
The bloke on the right surely?
#186
Posted 05 October 2010 - 21:24
It is an old coal mine which is now owned by polish racing driver Jerzy Mazur.
This place is now a Mining and Motorsport Museum.
Last saturday a stretch of road that runs through the mine was oficially named Ayrton Senna Street:
#187
Posted 06 October 2010 - 21:49
#188
Posted 06 October 2010 - 22:08
I have no idea how permanent the trailer park outside Talladega Superspeedway is but I had to chuckle when I found this 'camping combo' parked on Darrell Waltrip Way last year. This was the first race I had been to in 17 years I don't remember the camp site at Brands Hatch looking like this during the last BTCC event I went to.
#189
Posted 11 September 2011 - 12:01
However, the seafront road is indeed called Brooklands and - from east to west - you can find Swift, Talbot, Wolseley, Sunbeam, Hillman, Morris and Bentley Avenues. The run of Avenues is broken by Brooklands Gardens and then continues with Austin, Alvis, Humber, Riley, Essex, Vauxhall, Fiat and Belsize Avenues. For some reason the road off Belsize Avenue leading to yet more of these Avenues doesn't conform to the naming pattern and is called Midway: leading off it are Lincoln, Napier, Buick, Lanchester, Daimler, Standard, Rover, Singer, Crossley and Triumph Avenues. What appears to be a later - and as yet unfinished - development called Lotus Way curls round the back.
#190
Posted 11 September 2011 - 12:38
http://www.guardian....t-most-deprived
I do hope there's no connection to their choice of street names.
#191
Posted 11 September 2011 - 23:52
From bhamwiki.com:
"Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive, formerly known as Warrior River Road, is an east-west road that serves as a main thoroughfare in Hueytown. It is named after NASCAR racing brothers Bobby and Donnie Allison, the late Davey and Clifford Allison (Bobby's sons), and the late Neil Bonnett. All of them were based in Hueytown during their racing careers, and were part of the famed Alabama Gang. Warrior River Road was renamed in their honor and memory in the early 1990s.
The street begins at its intersection with Interstate 20/59, just east of the Hueytown city limits, and continues westward to the western city limits, where the name reverts to Warrior River Road in unincorporated Jefferson County in the Concord community."
#192
Posted 12 September 2011 - 01:18
It even has its own cloverleaf of exits from a major US interstate.
#193
Posted 12 September 2011 - 15:48
#194
Posted 12 September 2011 - 19:09
Probably name after Mrs Wilson.
#195
Posted 12 September 2011 - 19:14
#196
Posted 18 September 2011 - 10:55
#197
Posted 25 September 2011 - 01:53
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Brendon Hagarty
Edited by Haggis 2, 25 September 2011 - 01:53.
#198
Posted 25 September 2011 - 07:47
Also in Bath, there is a Horstmann Close, built on the site of the old Horstmann works on Newbridge Road. Cars - including racing cars - were just one of the products of the various Horstmann companies and were actually built on another site in James Street West. Today the company produces central heating controls and metering equipment but in the past they've made things as bizarre as "bloodless castrators" mousetraps and bee cages (for sending queen bees by post!)
#199
Posted 25 September 2011 - 09:47
Grading should begin on Ken Miles Drive in the not to distant future. It is on the lower left of this plat and is intersected by Ted Tidwell Lane. Other streets already in place are Dave MacDonald Drive, Frank Warren Drive, T.J. Kelly Drive, Weldon Adams Drive and Glenn Roberts Drive. In the very lower left is "Cemetery Turn" from the former Augusta International Raceway. Our organization (The Augusta International Raceway Preservation Society) continues to work with the developer and the Augusta/Richmond County Parks Department to save as much as possible from the former circuit.
Henry
Please allow me to duplicate this post at the Augusta International Raceway thread.
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#200
Posted 26 September 2011 - 16:01
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Can anyone figure out who it is really named after?