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[Jimisgod]

I was just wondering how many tracks there were that had sections where one part crossed over the other, since the whole idea seems slightly dangerous. Suzuka and Oran Park (unless it is now deceased) are the two I can recall. Of course the old Monza oval passes over the current layout. Has anyone ever fallen off the overpass onto the lower section of track on a layout like this?

[Steffe Ornerdal]

Balcarce and San Juan in Argentina.
Hameenlinna in Finland.

East Germany had many tracks at a "Autobahn-Kreuz" with overpass.

Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montand) fell down from the Monza banking onto the track underneath, but that does not count?

[Barry Boor]

Next week's Japanese Grand Prix is at just such a venue.

[LittleChris]

Mendoza in Argentina as used for the F2 Temporada in 1979 ( I think ).

[Lee Nicolle]

I was just wondering how many tracks there were that had sections where one part crossed over the other, since the whole idea seems slightly dangerous. Suzuka and Oran Park (unless it is now deceased) are the two I can recall. Of course the old Monza oval passes over the current layout. Has anyone ever fallen off the overpass onto the lower section of track on a layout like this?

Oran Pk has gone, a victim of housing.
No other cross over tracks in Australia that I am aware of.

[Ray Bell]

Woody point, but in a different way...

You need a map to work it out. Of course, it's long gone now.

[LittleChris]

Paramount Ranch

[LittleChris]

Just thought of another, St Cloud in Paris, though strictly speaking the upper road was on top of a tunnel carrying the lower road ( Nowadays the A13 from Paris to Caen which bisects the Rouen Les Essarts circuit and was the reason the post 1971 link was built )

[BullHead]

Sarti did in Grand Prix at Monza

[Frank S]

Paramount Ranch

More than slightly dangerous; if I recall correctly, a fatal accident at the crossover was one of the precipitating events for its closure.

[Rob G]

The exit of pit lane at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi crosses underneath turn 1.

[Rob Semmeling]

My pdf-file Rennen! Races! Vitesse! covers questions like this, you can download it from my website http://www.wegcircuits.nl. In this case page 114 is what you are looking for.

Edit: the info is now in a different pdf-file called the Racing Circuits Factbook - see post #16 further below.

Edited by Rob Semmeling, 09 March 2012 - 15:47.

[chdphd]

My pdf-file Rennen! Races! Vitesse! covers questions like this, you can download it from my website http://www.wegcircuits.nl. In this case page 114 is what you are looking for.

[Graham Clayton]

The Balcarce track in Argentina passes over itself:

http://www.pilotosto...to-balcarce.jpg

[Duc-Man]

The Sankt Wendel motorbike road circuit should have had an overpass IIRC.

Edited by Duc-Man, 09 March 2012 - 15:03.

[Rob Semmeling]

Yes, but only the version used from 1982-1984, Duc-Man.


My Racing Circuits Factbook pdf-booklet lists all known tracks with an overpass on page 58. Download via:

http://www.wegcircuits.nl/rrv.html

[Duc-Man]

Yes, but only the version used from 1982-1984, Duc-Man.

Living just 60km away I made it there only once due to my youth. Even while they were not overpassing the track they still had to go over a bridge that went across the other road (B41) they used. During lunch-break they had some race cars trying if the track was suitable for cars for a proposed DTM event...that never happened.

[Rob Semmeling]

Sankt Wendel indeed featured on an early draft of the 1990 DTM/German F3 calender, but as you say that race never took place. They did have super karts and rally events there.

[Derwent Motorsport]

Silverstone rally sprint track!

[fbarrett]

Any "figure-eight" track.

Frank

[LittleChris]

Fiorano

[LittleChris]

Bilbao street circuit used a few years ago for a one off Nissan World Series race

[LittleChris]

Some versions of the Norisring ( used in 1948 and 1950). Also a number of post war German circuits based on the autobahns eg Bautzen.

On a roll now !!

[LittleChris]

The original Most street / road circuit.

Woah, good stuff this Hobgoblin

[Graham Clayton]

The former voiturette track at Lucca in Italy:



Source: http://www.formula2.net/Lucca.jpg

[Lee Nicolle]

Any "figure-eight" track.

Frank

And I do remember figure 8 racing in the 60s, a shortlived thing though in a few countrys.