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[Keir]

http://www.uniquecar...s_Ireland_2.jpg

 

Hope this image helps.

 

The pic is listed as Spa Francorchamps, but I've never seen this image of Spa.

 

So, where is this ???

[Barry Boor]

Easy, Keir. It's Brussels. They called it the Heysel circuit and ran a few races there in the very early 1960s.

It's one of the few circuits in the world of which you will find not the slightest trace if you went there.

We see John Campbell-Jones' Emeryson leading Innes, with Keith Greene's Gilby and de Beaufort's Porsche (probably) following.

Edited by Barry Boor, 18 September 2014 - 18:06.

[Keir]

Barry, You are the best. I knew it couldn't be Spa, but .....

 

The circuit looks really interesting, it could be really neat in GPL with all the houses and such on the track verge.

[D-Type]

I don't think it's Spa - in 1962 Ireland drove cars #21 and #22, Lotus-Climax and -BRM V8 respectively and this looks like a 4-cylinder 21 with a single digit number.  I suspect it is the Bruxelles GP where he drove #2.  The other two non-championship street races that year were Pau and Naples and Ireland didn't race in either.

 

Edit:  Barry beat me to it!

Edited by D-Type, 18 September 2014 - 18:19.

[BRG]

It's one of the few circuits in the world of which you will find not the slightest trace if you went there.

Why not?  Has it been redeveloped?  That bridge in the back ground looks quite distinctive - has that gone?

[Barry Boor]

The whole area has been totally redeveloped. The track ran up and down either side of a motorway-type road but I believe even that has been rebuilt and realigned.

[Barry Boor]

See for yourself:

 

[Keir]

Too bad. It certainly looked like the spectators had their prime spots.

 

Not that they are directly related, but Bridgehampton in the States was one of my favorite circuits to race on. It is now a golf course and if one looks via "Google Earth", you can still see fragments of the circuit. A great shame as the "Bridge" was one of those classic race tracks.

[BRG]

See for yourself:

 

Thanks, Barry.  I had located that area on the map but couldn't really fit the track onto it.  It looks like Beverlindestraat might just be a survivor and possibly near where the picture was taken.  There are some houses on it  that might predate 1960.   Otherwise, as you say, all swept away.

[Macca]

https://revslib.stan...tem/wf539ry4984

 

https://www.google.c...SRAiQ!2e0?hl=en

 

 

 

Paul M

[Barry Boor]

What are you saying, Paul? That street looks a bit like the picture but the angle doesn't look right relative to the main road it runs into so I don't think it's from the circuit. But, it might be.

[Tuboscocca]

http://www.uniquecar...s_Ireland_2.jpg

 

Hope this image helps.

 

The pic is listed as Spa Francorchamps, but I've never seen this image of Spa.

 

So, where is this ???

Keir, all you want to know (or not) of this Heysel GP (Heysel has the bad 'taste' of the stadium catastrophe):

 

http://www.motors-ma...-bruxelles.html

 

Jean Paul Delsaux has done the book with all races and wonderful photos!!

 

Regards Michael

[BRG]

What are you saying, Paul? That street looks a bit like the picture but the angle doesn't look right relative to the main road it runs into so I don't think it's from the circuit. But, it might be.

The end house looks the same (doorway, windows etc) so I reckon Beverlindestraat was part of the track and is the sole remnant.

[Keir]

You guys are amazing. It's all about the angles.

[Rob29]

Keir, all you want to know (or not) of this Heysel GP (Heysel has the bad 'taste' of the stadium catastrophe):

 

http://www.motors-ma...-bruxelles.html

 

Jean Paul Delsaux has done the book with all races and wonderful photos!!

 

Regards Michael

Amazing! That link has several books I had not heard of-guess they are in french?

[Tuboscocca]

Amazing! That link has several books I had not heard of-guess they are in french?

Rob29 --full points -- Jean Paul is from Belgium..and the 'pope' of Belgian racing and tracks...many of them o.p. now

 

Michael