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MADRID, RETIRO
Not to be confused with Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria - Madrid, Vicente Calderón
Description  
Location Madrid
M - Madrid - Comunidad de Madrid
Location Parque del Retiro (Retiro Park)
Latitude - Longitude + 40°24'49"     - 3°40'53"
40.413611     -3.681389
UTM Coordinates X = 442189.066  -  Y = 4473888.503  -  Zone 30T
Aerial photo / Map (*)  Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Visor SIGPAC
Altitude AMSL 671 m - 2201 ft
Inauguration  
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) Spanish foro-gratis.latin-foros.com (...)Forum El Quinto Elemento --> Érase una vez.... --> Circuitos españoles, that quotes XXX Salón Internacional del Automóvil y 100 años del motor en España
(2) Spanish www.forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=352772ForoCoches --> Zona ForoCoches --> ForoCoches --> ***un Dia En Las Carreras***
(3) Spanish www.thef1.com/foro/historia/viewtopic.php?p=20070#20070

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Circuito del Retiro
Description Sources don’t agree about years when the track was active: accprding to the forum hosted on forum di www.thef1.com, it should have been active in 1958÷1961, while according to El Quinto Elemento it should have been in 1951÷1960.
Years 1951?÷1961?
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit  
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page February 18th 2009
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points Avenida de Cuba - Puerta de América - Paseo del Duque Fernán Nuñez
length 1820  m 5971  ft 1.131  mi   (3)
length 1820  m 5971  ft 1.131  mi   (1)

Circuito del Retiro

Circuito del Retiro

Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)

See this track layout with Google Maps - Google Earth Circuito del Retiro


(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)

Location: + 40°24'49", - 3°40'53"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner

Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
December 18th 2007 Circuito del Retiro 1951?÷1961? Lorenzo Tommasi     Update Description
May 29th 2007 Circuito del Retiro 1951?÷1961? Guido de Carli Guido de Carli   Update Description with map
November 11th 2004 Circuito del Retiro 1951?÷1961? Guido de Carli     New Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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