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CAIVANO
Description Street circuit inaugurated on March 4th 1979 with 1st Trofeo Giovanni Rippa, a motorbike race for junior and gentleman drivers. It was the first motorbike race in circuit at Naples after 23 years. Circuit was surrounded with straw bales and drivers considered it a nice, funny and safe circuit. Problems were about paving (in many sections it should have been remade), some dust and above all unruly spectators. Luckly there were no accidents. I don’t know if some more motorbikes races were run.
Meanwhile the circuit was used also for some illegal and unofficial car races, both on the street circuit and on the drag strip
Location Caivano
NA - Napoli - Campania
Location Industrial area of Pascarola, in commune of Caivano, about 15 km - 9 mi far from Naples
Latitude - Longitude (approx) + 40°57'00"     + 14°18'00"     (approx)
40.95     14.3     (approx)
UTM Coordinates (approx) X = 441084.253  -  Y = 4533442.494  -  Zone 33T     (approx)
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Altitude AMSL  
Inauguration March 4th 1979
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) Italian Motosprint 8/1979 (page 42)
(2) Italian Motosprint 10/1979 (page 29)
(3) Italian Autosprint 38/1980 (page 67)Unauthorized circuit

(*) 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 di Pascarola
Description Track length declared before the race was 2700 m. I tried to calculate real length (see bottom of the page for details) using time and average speed of race winners. I don’t know how many laps each race had, so I supposed two possible length, one rounded down and one rounded up. I suppose the right length was 2650 m approx.
Years 1979
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit  
Motorbike circuit YES
Type Street course
Inauguration March 4th 1979
Closing  
Last update of this page September 12th 2007
Info last update March 1979
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length (approx) 2700  m 8858  ft 1.678  mi   (2)
length (approx) 2650  m 8694  ft 1.647  mi length calculated from average speed (2)

Circuito di Pascarola
Description Unofficial circuit used for illegal races both on street circuit and on drag strip
Years 1980
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Street course
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page September 27th 2007
Info last update September 1980
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length (approx) 2500  m 8202  ft 1.553  mi   (3)

Caivano, Circuito di Pascarola 1979

Caivano, Circuito di Pascarola 1979


Caivano, Circuito di Pascarola 1980

Caivano, Circuito di Pascarola 1980


Latitude - Longitude (approx): + 40°57'00", + 14°18'00"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner


1979 RESULTS
Track lenght calculation based on results of races of March 4th 1979
Class 1979 Winner Time km/h Min lenght (laps) Max lenght (laps)
50 Livio Morbidelli (Kreidler) 23´42"9 101.213 2667 m (15) 2857 m (14)
125 Giuseppe Russo (Morbidelli) ? 119.280 ? ?
250 Sandro Butelli (H.D.) 24´27"7 123.498 2650 m (19) 2797 m (18)
500 Enzo Tiritiello (Suzuki) 23´19"8 127.435 2608 m (19) 2753 m (18)
Sidecar Farina-Guadagno (EFG) 22´20"13 113.857 2649 m (16) 2826 m (15)

Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
September 27th 2007 Circuito di Pascarola 1980 Guido de Carli     New Description with map
December 4th 2004 Circuito di Pascarola 1979 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli   New Description with map
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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