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SUI - SWITZERLAND
SION
SORRY, SOME DATA ARE NOT TRANSLATED YET
Description	At the end of 1983 a permanent circuit was proposed. It should have been built in the former Sion airport and its trubunes should have hosted up to 120,000 spectators. The proposal was seen also by Didier Pironi e Jean-Pierre Jabouille, who gave some advices. The biggest problem is about the law: races on circuits were banned in Switzerland in 1955, so before doing anything this law should have been canceled. This proposal was definitively rejected on September 13th 1984 by Swiss Federal Council, because - they declared - a GP would frustrate years of effort for improving safety and education of the roads Wolfpd wrote on racingcircuits.net forum that tha eirfield is still in use (2005) both for military and commercial flights and that the airfield looks a little bit different than on this map. Possibly it was modified later.
Location	Sion / Sitten VS - Valais / Wallis - Région Lémanique
Location	former Sion airport
Latitude - Longitude	+ 46°13'09"     + 7°19'37" 46.219167     7.326944
UTM Coordinates	X = 370964.601  -  Y = 5119759.296  -  Zone 32T
Swiss national coordinates	Y = 591381  -   X = 118642
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -    map.search.ch
Altitude AMSL	485 m - 1591 ft
Inauguration
Closing
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) www.racingcircuits.net/cgi-bin/forum/show.cgi?32/1899 Post by Wolfpd on racingcircuits.net forum (2) Rombo 29/1983 (page 21) Un autodromo permanente in Svizzera? (3) Rombo 1/1984 (page 30) Un circuito in costruzione in Svizzera? (4) Rombo 38/1984 (page 30) Definitivamente bocciato il circuito e il GP

(*) 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.

Sion
Description
Years	1984
Direction	Clockwise
Proposal	YES
Proposal not developed	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Airfield course
Inauguration
Closing
Last update of this page	October 15th 2005
Info last update	September 1984
Designer
Distinctive points
length	3400  m	11155  ft	2.113  mi		(3)

Latitude - Longitude: + 46°13'09", + 7°19'37"
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
October 15th 2005		1984	Guido de Carli		Wolfpd	Update	Description
August 15th 2005		1984	Guido de Carli			Update	Description
August 4th 2005		1984	Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli		New	Description with map
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