The Original Spa Circuit

[shimmy]

15km, 9.3miles, you can just about see the route on the google maps below. Leaves the current circuit at the end of Kemmell Straight (Les Combes) and meanders to a long back straight with chicane and then returns to the circuit at Stavelot.

Next time there I think we have to drive this.

[Steve B]

Nice find....

[northernjim]

I was only thinking this the other day



I love all the history about Spa, it seems ridiculous sat here now, why I haven't been rooting round those old back roads, I'd like to see the Masta kink, where jackie stewart nearly lost his life back in 1966.......


Stewart losing it



The remains of his car after hitting a wood shed and a telegraph pole......


looking back as it is now








Graham Hill leading his team mate Rodriguez in 1962





Old Spa holds the record for the fastest avg speed - Spa still holds the record for the fastest sports car race ever run. Pedro Rodriguez and Jackie Oliver averaged 156 m.p.h. for 1000 kilometers including pit stops in 1971. The record is unlikely ever to be broken. Courses that could, like Le Mans and Monza, have been adding chicanes for the past 40 years.




Rodriguez leading Derek Bell in the '71 1000km.... but can you guess the corner






and this just because I like it.....



very telling....

[TANKSLAPPER]

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[gav]

Good pics folks.

If you go out the blanchimont exit past the Karting circuit you will see the back gate. This is where the road links to tge original road.... Is pretty long must have been interesting!
Incidentally you can go out this way and along to another total petrol garage which may be useful to know about.

[mattCSLnut]

Originally Posted by shimmy

15km, 9.3miles, you can just about see the route on the google maps below. Leaves the current circuit at the end of Kemmell Straight (Les Combes) and meanders to a long back straight with chicane and then returns to the circuit at Stavelot.

Next time there I think we have to drive this.

+1

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by gav

Good pics folks.

If you go out the blanchimont exit past the Karting circuit you will see the back gate. This is where the road links to tge original road.... Is pretty long must have been interesting!
Incidentally you can go out this way and along to another total petrol garage which may be useful to know about.

How do you get to that exit?

[gav]

If you go past the back of the paddock and past where the petrol pumps are youll see a red sign that says blanchimont. You can go out that way

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by gav

If you go past the back of the paddock and past where the petrol pumps are youll see a red sign that says blanchimont. You can go out that way

A picture paints a thousand words

[shimmy]

Here it is, just under the track at Stavelot and down the road a bit.