Mickey Mouse
#1
Posted 10 August 2004 - 10:17
Guess all of the latest F1 circuits fall into this category.
#3
Posted 10 August 2004 - 10:50
Barry Kalb
#4
Posted 10 August 2004 - 11:15
#5
Posted 10 August 2004 - 11:29
#6
Posted 10 August 2004 - 12:07
THomas
#7
Posted 10 August 2004 - 12:15
called Mickey Mouse.
Its aspect made of rises and descents with many curves and turns classify
it in this category.
With this link, you can see air sights of the circuit :
http://www.ledenon.com/vueaerienne.php
#8
Posted 10 August 2004 - 12:19
#9
Posted 10 August 2004 - 13:22
#10
Posted 12 August 2004 - 06:57
Originally posted by David Shaw
The first use that I know of it being used was to describe the Le Mans Bugatti circuit when it was used for the 1967 French Grand Prix, although I suspect there may be earlier examples.
The first occasion I recall the term being used was in relation to the Mexico City circuit. In his Motor Sport report of the 1963 Grand Prix Michael Tee describes the track - "…..From the hairpin a succession of four left and right slow curves lead to a short straight and the slightly banked 180 degree sweep before the pits. The section from the hairpin through the slow curves became known during the race as the ‘Mickey Mouse’ section." Motor Sport even labelled it as such on their track plan. No indication there of who originated the term though.
#11
Posted 12 August 2004 - 07:04
Originally posted by conjohn
Walt Disney World Speedway outside Orlando is another type of Mickey Mouse (or Musse Pigg as he is called in Sweden) circuit....
Given the series it was part of and in honour of the track on which that series floated to stay alive,
the Orlando Oval has been referred to as the "Mickyard".....
Henri Greuter
#12
Posted 12 August 2004 - 07:38
#13
Posted 12 August 2004 - 12:34
"Mickey Mouse" is a slang expression used as a diminutive adjective and adverb meaning small-time, amateurish or of inferior quality. A poorly executed construction project, for instance, could be pejoratively described as a "Mickey Mouse job". Presumably, this comes from the insinuation that the object or action in question was taken as seriously as a Mickey Mouse cartoon (that is to say, not at all). The term does not imply any actual connection to Mickey.
An alternative theory comes from the fact that Mickey Mouse watches were notorious for breaking down.
A derivitive of the watch reference I had been told, was that a Mickey Mouse watch was smaller and much more simplistic than a 'real' watch
#14
Posted 12 August 2004 - 17:15
That was from a viewing perspective; the drivers, however, didn't think it was all that bad IMMSMC.
Twinny
#15
Posted 12 August 2004 - 17:32
Originally posted by Pete Stowe
The first occasion I recall the term being used was in relation to the Mexico City circuit. In his Motor Sport report of the 1963 Grand Prix Michael Tee describes the track - "…..From the hairpin a succession of four left and right slow curves lead to a short straight and the slightly banked 180 degree sweep before the pits. The section from the hairpin through the slow curves became known during the race as the ‘Mickey Mouse’ section." Motor Sport even labelled it as such on their track plan. No indication there of who originated the term though.
Thanks for posting that, Pete - an interesting found.
It is the first time I see such an early use of the expression (applied to race tracks). I had initially though that Jarama was "the original mickey mouse track", but some TNF members showed me a while ago that the Circuit Bugatti at Le Mans preceded it in such "honors" - and now you demonstrate that there was at least "another mickey" before that.
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Posted 12 August 2004 - 18:25
#17
Posted 12 August 2004 - 19:15
#18
Posted 13 August 2004 - 14:49
Originally posted by T54
How about Cognac, Nancy or Annemasse? Not even mickey-mouse, may be minnie-mouse, or is this mini-mouse?
Or Croix en Ternois
Most people refer to this as a Kart track, so presumably in the Minnie Mouse section.
Strange that France which has so much space and had some of the greatest, & longest, circuits should also have so many little circuits