30 replies to this topic

[kstr]

I would like to know more about Angolan tracks.I had visited sites like tukutuku, racingcircuis and GEL Motorsports, but I want to know more

[Ray Bell]

By putting "Angola*" in 'search BB' at the top of the page, I found several threads that mention Angola.

This is one of them:

http://forums.atlasf...&threadid=44605

[kstr]

I also had visited the Angolan races question, but I would like to know more, please

[Richard Jenkins]

I'm no Angolan track expert - but I know people who are


You keeping saying "more" in this threads without being specific - so to help people out do you want to know more

about the track itself - it's history, the founders, it's layout, it's designers

or


do you want to know about the races held at the tracks in Angola


or

do you want to know about the general Angolan motorsport history??



If you help us more, we can help you more - you're only helping yourself if you just explain yourself a little better - even in Portguese, 'cos we can all use Babelfish (or those of us who have one - myself included - a Portuguese Dictionary) can try & understand a little better what all these "I want more" demands actually mean.

Not criticism, just trying to help here...

[kstr]

I want to know the maps of all Angolan tracks

[Richard Jenkins]

http://www.silhouet....cks/africa.html

When it comes to track maps, Darren's site is the best - it includes Benguela, Fortolaza, Nova Lisboa & Restinga - basically if a track isn't there, I'm not sure it'll be anywhere on the web, but, like I say, I'm no track expert...

[kstr]

I will try to found them

[kstr]

I would like to know more about Angolan motorsport history, in general.

[kstrt]

Are there photos of these tracks or maps that could appear at magazines?

[bigears]

Erm, you are pretty demanding for information.

You could Google for it.

Let me help you

http://www.google.co...n&ie=ISO-8859-1

Well there is not a lot of information there. But you can keep trying and you will find something somewhere.

[Mischa Bijenhof]

Our friend doesn't seem to give up...

[Paul Taylor]

Our friend, inquistive, he is!

[kstrt]

I think that there aren't anything

[Felix]

A friend is writing a book on the history of Sub-saharan motorsport and all its circuits ... he will know more. Send me a private message (with your email addy) and I will forward to him to see whether he will assist.

[petefenelon]

Did Alan Rollinson race in Angola?;)

WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
INFORMATION!;)

[Paul Taylor]

Originally posted by petefenelon
Did Alan Rollinson race in Angola?;)

WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
INFORMATION!;)

Anyway, this is from one of my books:

"Luanda in Angola was another street track around the houses and along the watrerfront. Hotel entrances were sandbagged and manhole covers were welded down. Practice started at 3am to miss some of the daytime heat and to avoid disrupting the town until race day. Come the race, of course, everything overheated but somehow a winner was always found. Later, as Angola fell into civil war, motor racing became more difficult and the race faded away, the sandbags used for other purposes."

That's probably as much as there is to say about Angolan motorsport! It doesn't happen anymore. I've just been told that the civil war is still on...? My book was published in 1989.

[kstrt]

What is the name of this book?

[Rob29]

Paragraph quoted is from 'The World Atlas of Motor Racing' by Joe Saward. There is a nice photo acompanying it. No sure what more info you are looking for .Most of what there is seems to have been covered here. Still as we just uncovered stuff from Argentina I had been looking for for 25 yrs,I suppose there is always hope!

[kstrt]

Are there maps of the Luanda track?

[Paul Taylor]

There is a map here:

http://www.racingcir...NovaLisboa.html

And a list of winners of the Angolan Grand Prix here:

http://www.racingcir...Angola/_gp.html

[Ruairidh]

Originally posted by kstrt
Are there maps of the Luanda track?

I've been following these threads and these questions (posed under a number of user names here and on 10 10ths) and I gotta ask - is this a long-running joke? If it is can someone please let me in on it. Thanks

[Paul Taylor]

Our friend here seems to have a number of different usernames!

Maybe he just wants to expand his racing knowledge, but I don't have any idea what it will amount to in the end...

[kstrt]

I have much more usernames.

[Paul Taylor]

Originally posted by kstrt
I have much more usernames.

Why?

[Ruairidh]

Originally posted by kstrt
I have much more usernames.

This has got to be a joke, right?

[Paul Taylor]

I'm sure there was a member called 'Rindt' on TBK's forums, who seems to be the same person as kstr and kstrt here.

http://tbk.fameflame...ch_author=Rindt

And on Ten Tenths, it seems as though NKT and 659 are the same. Possibly the same as the above three mentioned!

Sorry for this thread to be so off topic!

[kstrt]

Yes, it is off topic, but it is right. I am registred in many forums under different passwords.

[Paul Taylor]

Originally posted by kstrt
Yes, it is off topic, but it is right. I am registred in many forums under different passwords.

But why?

[kstrt]

Simply because I like. But, if we return to the topic. I want information about Angolan tracks because I am making it to computer games

[Felix]

kstrt - I have written to the guy; awaiting reply

[Felix]

Have sent you the email address