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RSA - SOUTH AFRICA
KILLARNEY
Description
Location	Cape Town - Western Cape
Location	8 km from Cape Town and 8 km from Belville-Paarl
Latitude - Longitude	- 33°49'28"     + 18°31'38" -33.824444     18.527222
UTM Coordinates	X = 271148.384  -  Y = 6254559.058  -  Zone 34H
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth
Altitude AMSL	14 m - 46 ft
Inauguration
Closing
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) (page 199) Author: Tommaso Tommasi - Published by: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore - Published in: Italia - year: 1973 (2) www.killarneyovaltrackracing.freeservers.com/about.html (3) www.polo.co.za/circuits.html (4) www.racingcircuits.net/forum/messages/3/571.html#POST853 Motor Racing Circuits Database (5) Autosprint 48/1970 (page 26) Map

(*) 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.

Killarney
Description
Years
Direction	Clockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Permanent
Inauguration
Closing
Last update of this page	March 7th 2006
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Hoal’s Hook (Conti) - Quarry (Engen) - Damps Dip (Shell) - Tygerberg Straight - Malmesbury Sweep (Sabat) - Killarney Straight - Cape Town (Vodacom)
length	3267  m	10719  ft	2.03  mi		(2)
Min width	7.4  m	24  ft			(1)

Latitude - Longitude: - 33°49'28", + 18°31'38"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner

PHOTOS

All photos were taken in October 2004 by Yves-Henri Randier, reproduced here with author’s descriprion with kind permission.

Photos by Yves-Henri Randier - October 2004

Click on thumbnail to open original large photo

1	2	3	4
Overall plan of the track and premises	From the Engen Boma looking right to Shell Corner towards Oval Corner with Table Mountain in the background	From the Engen Boma looking straight ahead to Conti and the starting grid with Table Mountain still behind	From the pits towards Vodacom Corner with view of the Drag line on the left.... with Table Mountain again

5	6
Extra shot with pitbabes	Extra shot with pitbabes

Updates
Date	Track layout	Years	Description by	Map by	Thanks to	Note
March 7th 2006			Guido de Carli		Yves-Henri Randier	New	Photos (on this site)
September 21st 2005			Guido de Carli			Update	Description
February 26th 2004			Guido de Carli			New	Photos (link)
February 26th 2004			Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli		New	Description with map
July 12th 2003			Guido de Carli			New	Description
September 16th 2002			Guido de Carli			New	Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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