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#151 HistoricMustang

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Posted 28 December 2006 - 18:51

In my conversation this AM with Mr. Warren he informed that he has purchased the corner of Frank Warren Drive and Dave MacDonald Drive for the construction of his new home.

Should be interesting living within the confines of a former race complex where you turned so many laps.

Henry

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#152 HistoricMustang

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 13:56

Update - Dave MacDonald Drive

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.

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#153 Tmeranda

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 18:05

Nobody remembered the most famous street in Chicago being named after Lake Speed. Ever hear of Lake Shore Drive? :lol:

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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 Tom MacMillan

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Posted 04 November 2007 - 13:36

MARANELLO STREET NAMES

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.

#156 sebbbl

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Posted 04 November 2007 - 16:33

Oh, and there's a "Von-Delius-Straße" in Plessa, the hometown of Auto Union's young driver Ernst von Delius, in memorial of the von Delius family...

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#157 962C

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Posted 05 November 2007 - 20:12

There's a "Allée Louis Chevrolet" and a "Rue Darracq" in Suresnes near Paris, both near the place where the Darracq factory used to be in the early 20th century (and incidentally a few hundred metres away from my flat). Louis Chevrolet used to work and drive for Darracq just before he emigrated to the U.S.A.

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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 lustigson

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Posted 06 November 2007 - 10:39

Since the man is now part of history, the Michael-Schumacher-Strasse in Kerpen, Germany.

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Posted 15 December 2007 - 23:30

Some time ago we mentioned rue Jean Behra in Le Mans. Thanks to the January 2008 issue of The Automobile, I've also discovered that nearby is another rue Robert Benoist. Equally unsurprising are rue Charles Faroux and rue Victor Hémery.

But - amazingly - there's also a rue SCH Davis!

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#160 Pedro 917

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Posted 22 June 2008 - 10:57

Last weekend, a French guy told us there was a street named after Pedro Rodriguez in Le Mans.
So we looked it up and found it very close to the circuit. It's a bit cynic to find out it was a dead-end street....

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#161 fbarrett

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Posted 26 June 2008 - 02:19

Freinds:

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.

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Posted 26 June 2008 - 14:43

In Daventry, where I went to school, there is a Sopwith Way (I think - definitely Sopwith though). However, it is on an industrial estate with Brunel and Whittle-related roads, so I think the name is more a nod to Tommy's aero engineering.
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 Raelene

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Posted 27 June 2008 - 03:59

when at the Nurburgring I wanted to go for a visit to the Schumacher kart track - easy - put in Michael-Schumacher Strasse into the GPS - drive for over an hour and there you are.

#164 Marc Ceulemans

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Posted 27 June 2008 - 18:50

I've seen recently a street JEAN CHASSAGNE at Limoges, France.

#165 fines

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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.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

#166 LotusElise

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 20:17

Oh dear, is Hotchkiss French or something? :blush:
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!

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 20:26

LotusElise:

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

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 20:41

Thankyou Frank. :blush:

I remember about the machine guns from GCSE History now.

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:22

Originally posted by LotusElise
It sounded like an English name, and we used their guns during the war!

Well, Daimler sounds like a German name (and moreover, it is!;)), shall we now claim their cars? :D

#170 LotusElise

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:39

I have always understood that Daimler=British, Daimler-[I]Benz[I]=German.
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 David McKinney

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:41

Hotchkiss engines powered the original Morris cars

#172 fines

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 21:49

Yes, of course, I was only joking. The Daimler Motor Co. was British, while the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (which incidentally means exactly the same!) was German - good thing Daimler Germany soon called its cars Mercedes! Oh, and those early Daimler racers weren't exactly "great", it was only after the name Mercedes was introduced that Daimler Germany had any real success in racing!

#173 Vitesse2

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 22:16

.... and several English Daimlers took part in the Herkomer Trials of 1905 and 1906 :cool:

#174 LotusElise

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 22:17

Perhaps "pioneering" is a better word than great.

Actually, given the Hotchkiss oversight, I'm not sure which Daimler the Daventry town planners named the street after, anyway.

#175 Barry Boor

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Posted 28 June 2008 - 22:24

Actually, I believe it was Cuthbert Daimler, who was a town councillor in Daventry decades ago.  ;)

#176 Chris Bloom

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Posted 29 June 2008 - 05:57

Here goes an attempt to list all the roads that have racing related names in Westmead on the site of the venue that hosted the Natal GP in 1961/62:

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 Barry Boor

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Posted 29 June 2008 - 09:11

That is wonderful! Well done to the local council or whoever named those roads.

Shame they never left the circuit there though.

#178 Chris Bloom

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 17:30

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 :mad:

#179 Hieronymus

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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 :mad:


...yes, streets are now named after hardcore criminals!! Only in Africa, I presume...??!!

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#180 LucaP

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Posted 02 February 2010 - 13:17

There's Via Kato in Misano, near the circuit.

#181 Vitesse2

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Posted 14 February 2010 - 21:50

Playing around with Google Maps, I came across a Rue Rolls between Calais and Sangatte: probably named more for his aviation prowess, as one of the roads which branches off it is the Rue Hubert Latham, who was based at Sangatte for his two unsuccessful cross-Channel flights.

#182 Vitesse2

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Posted 20 March 2010 - 12:08

As mentioned in the "former premises" thread, on the site of the old Clement-Talbot works in Barlby Rd in London you can find Sunbeam Crescent, Hillman Drive, Humber Drive, Rootes Drive and Shrewsbury Street.

Edited by Vitesse2, 20 March 2010 - 12:09.


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Posted 21 March 2010 - 10:45

The street in which Fernando Alonso grew up in Oviedo is now named after him (since last year).

#184 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 21 March 2010 - 11:35

Quite a few around Wingfield South Australia. Senna, Lafite, Rosberg and more. The area was developed in the mid 80s.

#185 Eric Dunsdon

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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 GrzegorzChyla

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Posted 05 October 2010 - 21:24

I recently visited Walbrzych (Poland) and a very interesting place.
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:
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Posted 06 October 2010 - 21:49

In an area of Sutton Coldfield there is a 1960s estate which contains not only Brabham Crescent and Moss Way but also Silverstone Drive, Goodwood Drive, Fordwater Road, Woodcote Way and Valentine Close.

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Posted 06 October 2010 - 22:08

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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.

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Posted 11 September 2011 - 12:01

While reading Juliet Gardiner's "The Thirties" I came across a reference to Jaywick Sands, an estate of what were mainly holiday bungalows, advertised as "a motorist's mecca by the sea". The main thoroughfare was to be named Brooklands and it was to incorporate names like Chrysler Crescent, Austin Avenue, Singer Street and Renault Road. Plans must have changed somewhat, as Jaywick Sands is like so many seaside developments and consists mainly of straight parallel streets at right angles to the seafront.

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 Tim Murray

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Posted 11 September 2011 - 12:38

Jaywick is apparently England's most deprived town:

http://www.guardian....t-most-deprived

I do hope there's no connection to their choice of street names. :lol:

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Posted 11 September 2011 - 23:52

In the Birmingham, Alabama area, Warrior River Road was renamed "Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive" in honor of the Allison family and Neil Bonnett, the local NASCAR heroes, in the early 1990s.

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 E1pix

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Posted 12 September 2011 - 01:18

Of course, in west Albuquerque, New Mexico, is "Unser Boulevard."

It even has its own cloverleaf of exits from a major US interstate.

#193 Nanni Dietrich

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Posted 12 September 2011 - 15:48

"Via Piero Taruffi" was recently inaugurated in Albano Laziale, province of Rome, Italy, the small town in which "The Silver Fox" was born in 1906.

#194 Bauble

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Posted 12 September 2011 - 19:09

I've heard of a Streetcar named Desire!

Probably name after Mrs Wilson.

#195 RS2000

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Posted 12 September 2011 - 19:14

I knew a girl who lived in Locke King Road, Weybridge. She thought it was named after "some racing driver"...

#196 Vitesse2

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Posted 18 September 2011 - 10:55

Just discovered that there is a George Eyston Drive in Winchester.

#197 Haggis 2

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 01:53

Here in Western Australia we have a new suburb named Brabham. Encompasses the old Caversham circuit, home of the 1957 and 1962 Australian Grand Prix.
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Brendon Hagarty

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#198 Vitesse2

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 07:47

In Bath there is a road called Ivo Peters Way: although he's better known for his railway photography, Ivo Peters was a promising driver in trials, speed events and road races in the 1930s, mainly in "chain gang" Frazer Nashes.

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" :eek: mousetraps and bee cages (for sending queen bees by post!)

#199 HistoricMustang

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 09:47

I realize this is hard to see so accept an apology until it can be adjusted.

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 :wave:

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Please allow me to duplicate this post at the Augusta International Raceway thread. :wave:

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#200 Robin Fairservice

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 16:01

Just for fun here is one of myself, next to a street sign in Sittingbourne. I have driven a racing car and autocrossed a Corvette!

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Can anyone figure out who it is really named after?