Skarpnäck track, Sweden
#1
Posted 20 January 2003 - 15:24
I need your help with the Swedish airfield circuit of Skarpnäck.
It hosted the Swedish Grand Prix between 1948 and 1949, with Clemente Biondetti and Prince Bira as winners. Now work has started to make this track avilable for Grand Prix Legends; and a few pictures would be convenient
The track was open between 1948 and 1969, when it was closed for good. Today the track is replaced with houses and office blocks
So, I come to you people, to see if you can help out? Everything, pictures, aerial photo's etc would be very apprechiated.
Regards...
- John
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#2
Posted 21 January 2003 - 05:24
Where are all the replies?
Surely, someone here must have some information on Skarpnäck.
#3
Posted 21 January 2003 - 10:11
#4
Posted 21 January 2003 - 10:25
#5
Posted 21 January 2003 - 20:57
http://www.silhouet....s/skarpnac.html
As far as Legends goes, it was an airfield so it is going to be pretty featuresless; or at least, that's what Stefan's map implies...
#6
Posted 21 January 2003 - 21:16
Thanks for reminding me and good luck in your quest, John!
JBonnier
#7
Posted 21 January 2003 - 21:55
The place was absoulety flat, and the track was not much liked by the drivers. The story goes that the club who owned the track (MS=Motorsällskapet="Motor Society") sold the land to get money to pay their speedway World Champion Anders Michanek. And now the track is gone, and so is the speedwayteam!
Stefan
#8
Posted 22 January 2003 - 16:32
Originally posted by Barry Boor
Interesting that Stefan's map shown above, differs slightly from the 1955 Autosport Directory map that I supplied to Darren for his site:
http://www.silhouet....s/skarpnac.html
As far as Legends goes, it was an airfield so it is going to be pretty featuresless; or at least, that's what Stefan's map implies...
Featureless? Don't say that before you have driven the track!
- John
#9
Posted 26 January 2003 - 05:54
/ Anders V
#10
Posted 26 January 2003 - 12:29
I think we will a bit of help all round with the project,
will defiantly contact you if we have troube with the .fb files
#11
Posted 26 January 2003 - 17:15
GPL crowd is expanding its influence Good luck with the project guys and ..... are you going to hire test drivers ??
Arturo
#12
Posted 26 January 2003 - 23:46
I could give fb advise, if needed, that looks like my type of fb-file track
*hint*Monaco Chicane*hint*
#13
Posted 27 January 2003 - 12:14
A friend of mine has pointed out three layouts for Skarpnäck:
1948-1952 3000 metres
1952-1955 1700 metres
1959-1969 2200 metres (the picture above)
Stefan
#14
Posted 27 January 2003 - 19:19
Now all I have to do is prove that Chimay is actually in France, where my book puts it, and everything will be fine!
#15
Posted 27 January 2003 - 19:24
Originally posted by Arturo Pereira
Lots of familiar people here lately
GPL crowd is expanding its influence Good luck with the project guys and ..... are you going to hire test drivers ??
Arturo
I was about to ask. I've got this old Cooper T-81 under a dust-sheet in my wireframe garage. Leaks a bit of oil, and the fuel injectors need cleaning; otherwise it's in fine condition, and ready for a run to shake out the cobwebs!
#16
Posted 27 January 2003 - 19:31
Circuit Chimay,
Tour de contrôle du circuit,
Route de Salles,
6460 Chimay,
Belgium
Active Years: 1926 to date
Circuit Length: 4.520km, 15 turns (Original circuit: 6.74 miles, 16 turns)
Circuit type: Temporary road course
A fast temporary road course close to Charleoi on the French border , Chimay was for many years the home of the Grand Prix de Frontières. By 1972 it had become too dangerous for modern racing cars and David Purley won the final F3 race, the circuit holding motorcycle events thereafter. However, in 1996 it was revived in a shortened form as a venue for the Belgian Procar championship - although the fast sweeps had gone, replaced with chicane-blighted straights and a largely rectangular layout.
From : http://www.etracks.f...ope/chimay.html
Could it be that some parts went over the border to France?