Floreffe - a little known Belgian track
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Posted 29 February 2004 - 00:30
Chris
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Posted 29 February 2004 - 14:47
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Posted 29 February 2004 - 21:15
Chris
#4
Posted 01 March 2004 - 21:48
Originally posted by neville mackay
Floreffe was never actually used for the Belgian motorcycling GP - that was always held at Spa - but it did host a series of non-championship events in the late 1940's and early 50's. Fergus Anderson, the two-times 350cc world champion, was killed there in 1956 when the streamlined "dustbin" fairing on his 500cc BMW touched the ground as he leant too far over on a corner.
No. Floreffe was used for the motorcycle Belgian GP in 1936. It was the first and last time. About the fatal accident of veteran scottish mortorycle worldchampion rider Fergus Anderson, at the moment I have this version. He would have made a driving mistake during a slowing lap, hit the kerb (perhaps with the streamlined "dustbin" fairing, as you say) of the foot-path and crashed fatally.
The plate on the site of the fatal accident was put in May 1996, for the 50th year of his tragic and not forgotten death. There was also his daughter.
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Posted 03 March 2004 - 22:22
"Pre-Championship" car Grands Prix data is everywhere - in all media - but I don't think I've ever seen anything about the two-wheeled equivalent, except, inevitably, for the TT.
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#6
Posted 04 March 2004 - 00:45
Originally posted by Alan Lewis
Taking this off thread a tad (forgive me), but is there anywhere on Ye Web that gives information on pre-1949 motorcycle Grands Prix (like Belgium 1936)?
"Pre-Championship" car Grands Prix data is everywhere - in all media - but I don't think I've ever seen anything about the two-wheeled equivalent, except, inevitably, for the TT.
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This page may be a good start: http://www.chez.com/...re-sommaire.htm
LittleChris's photo tour of Floreffe is now available at: http://www.racingcir...fe/ch2004a.html
#7
Posted 04 March 2004 - 20:46
Originally posted by danielking
This page may be a good start: http://www.chez.com/...re-sommaire.htm
LittleChris's photo tour of Floreffe is now available at: http://www.racingcir...fe/ch2004a.html
Daniel, truly you are a saint in human form. I must have missed this in the past because my French is as poor as a poor thing that's just been made homeless and had its shoes nicked.
But the wife has an MA in it. Now, if I can just persuade her to do a few hours translating...
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#8
Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:09
I have been unable to make head nor tail of the links which presumably show a memorial plaque to him in the village.
Fergus Anderson had been living for six years with his wife and family in the beautiful village of Mandello del Lario, on the shores of Lake Como, and close to the Moto Guzzi factory where he had been Works Team Manager until shortly before his death, and so far been unable to locate his grave.
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Posted 06 February 2007 - 09:13
Floreffe looks daunting with the buildings so close to the road and those ominous metal telegraph poles - as Fergus Anderson sadly discovered.
Incidentally I read somwhere that Anderson drove HWM F2 cars for a season (1950?) but haven't discovered how successful he was. Presumably as he was a successful works Moto Guzzi GP rider at the time, he chose to stay on two wheels. And Anderson, a Scot, was born in Croydon? Really?
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Posted 06 February 2007 - 18:08
#12
Posted 07 February 2007 - 01:25
Ciao,
Guido
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