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SHIRAOI CAR LAND
HOKKAIDO SPEEDWAY
Description The track opened in 1970 as Hokkaido Speedway. The first owner was Sakata Construction Company.
The inaugural event was held on July 4th and 5th 1970. That was also the first major motor race in Hokkaido. Car Graphic of Japanese magazine (published on September 1970) reported that 32.000 spectators had come to the event.

However, in 1973, the track was closed due to some fatal accidents, financial problem and noise pollution. After that the track used to use by illegal street racers and fatal accident happened. Therefore, the track cut the surface and nobody could use. (source by F1 Club No.24 of Japanese magazine published on April 19th 1999)

And then, ownership of the site had changed several times but the track never reopened until 2001.

According to official website of Shiraoi Car Land, SHIRAOI CARLAND,inc. established and began to rebuild the track in 1990. 11 years later, they reopened the track as Shiraoi Car Land finally. In 2002 they were opened the dirt track out side the main course. Cross country course opened in 2003. Short course was built inside the main course in 2006 and extended 400 meters in 2007.
[description by Avril]
Location Shiraoi - Hokkaidō - Hokkaidō
Location  
Latitude - Longitude + 42°30'17"     +141°14'53"
42.504722     141.248056
UTM Coordinates X = 520380.274  -  Y = 4705847.212  -  Zone 54T
Aerial photo / Map (*)  Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) portal.cyberjapan.jp
Altitude AMSL 94 m - 308 ft
Inauguration July 4th 1970
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English ForumForum --> Asia --> Japan --> Japan - Shiraoi Car Land / Hokkaido Speedway [ENG]
(2) English www.milermeter.com/?r=4155190Track layout
(3) English www.milermeter.com/?r=4155193Track layout
(4) Japanese F1 Club 24/1999 [Publishing date: April 19th 1999]
(5) Japanese www.h-scl.jp/index.phpOfficial website

(*) 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.

Hokkaido Speedway
Description  
Years 1970÷1973
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration July 4th 1970
Closing 1973
Last update of this page November 15th 2010
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  

Shiraoi Car Land: Main Course
Description  
Years 2001÷...
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration 2001
Closing  
Last update of this page November 15th 2010
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 2250  m 7382  ft 1.398  mi   (1)
length 2564  m 8411  ft 1.593  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (2)
Width 35  m 115  ft    Start finish straight (1)
Min width 15  m 49  ft    ’S’ (1)
Max width 45  m 148  ft    Turn 1 (1)
Straight length 800  m 2625  ft 0.497  mi Start finish straight (1)
Max. gradient 7  ° 12.3  %        (1)
Bend minimum radius 35  m 115  ft    ’S’ (1)
Max minimum radius 300  m 984  ft 0.186  mi Turn 1 (1)
Max minimum radius 300  m 984  ft 0.186  mi Turn 2 (1)

Shiraoi Car Land: Dirt Track
Description  
Years 2002÷...
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Dirt Road course
Inauguration 2002
Closing  
Last update of this page November 15th 2010
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  

Shiraoi Car Land: Cross Country Course
Description  
Years 2003÷...
Direction  
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Dirt Road course
Inauguration 2003
Closing  
Last update of this page November 15th 2010
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  

Shiraoi Car Land: Short Course
Description  
Years 2006
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration 2001
Closing  
Last update of this page November 15th 2010
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  

Shiraoi Car Land: Short Course
Description  
Years 2007÷...
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration 2007
Closing  
Last update of this page November 15th 2010
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 800  m 2625  ft 0.497  mi   (1)
length 758  m 2488  ft 0.471  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (3)
Min width 5  m 16  ft      (1)
Max width 10  m 33  ft      (1)
Straight length 200  m 656  ft 0.124  mi Start finish straight (1)
Max. gradient 1  ° 1.7  %        (1)
Bend minimum radius 30  m 98  ft      (1)
Max minimum radius 120  m 394  ft      (1)

Shiraoi Car Land

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Shiraoi Car Land: Main Course

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Shiraoi Car Land: Short Course (2007÷...)

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 - milermeter.com
(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)

Latitude - Longitude: + 42°30'17", +141°14'53"
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
November 15th 2010     Guido de Carli Avril Avril New Description with map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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