ESP - SPAIN
MASPALOMAS
Description  
Location Maspalomas
GC - Las Palmas - Canarias
Location Aero Club Las Palmas, approx 8 km - 5 mi North West of Maspalomas, Gran Canaria
Latitude - Longitude + 27°46'57"     - 15°30'27"
27.7825     -15.5075
UTM Coordinates X = 450001.117  -  Y = 3073212.378  -  Zone 28R
Aerial photo / Map (*) Aerial photo / Map (*) OpenStreetMap  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Google Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Bing Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Flash Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Wikimapia  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Visor SIGPAC
Altitude AMSL 3 m - 10 ft
Inauguration  
Closing  
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English ForumForum --> Europe --> Spain and Portugal --> ESP - Circuito de Maspalomas [ENG]
(2) Spanish www.emaspalomas.com
(3) Spanish www.todocircuito.com/index.php (...)
(4) Italian Autosprint 20/1968 (page 24)Proposal (with map)
(5) Spanish www.circuitomaspalomas.comOfficial 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.

Maspalomas
Description Permanent circuit designed by Sandro Rocci (who had already worked at Jarama), to be built in a mountainous area in Isle of Gran Canaria. Because of its climate, it would have been a perfect circuit to be used in winter, for tests and hypotetic races similar to Tasman Cup in Australia. The hill in point 1 (on the map) should have been excavated, so wonderful natural tribunes would have been created. First section of the main straight would have been flat, then in the last section it would have been uphill up to mid of first bend (point 2 on the map), the highest point of the circuit. Then downhill up to point 3. The hairpin at point 3 would have been very slow, so possibly it would have been eliminated. Pits would have been along main stright, but opened in opposite direction and lower than the track. Inauguration was scheduled before end of 1969.
Years 1968
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal Proposal  YES
Proposal not developed YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page October 16th 2008
Info last update May 1968
Designer Rocci
Sandro Rocci
Distinctive points  
length 4500  m 14764  ft 2.796  mi Original proposal (4)

Maspalomas
Description I don’t know anything about the history of this track, nor the link with 1968 proposal.
Years  
Direction Clockwise   Clockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational  
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit  
Type Permanent
Inauguration  
Closing  
Last update of this page October 16th 2008
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 4400  m 14436  ft 2.734  mi Course A (5)
length 2200  m 7218  ft 1.367  mi Course B (5)
length 2600  m 8530  ft 1.616  mi Course C (5)
length 700  m 2297  ft 0.435  mi Course D (5)
length 550  m 1804  ft 0.342  mi Course E (5)
length 400  m 1312  ft 0.249  mi Course F (5)
length 1600  m 5249  ft 0.994  mi Course G (5)
length 1200  m 3937  ft 0.746  mi Course I (5)
length 700  m 2297  ft 0.435  mi Course J (5)
length 1300  m 4265  ft 0.808  mi Course K (5)
length 1100  m 3609  ft 0.684  mi Course K (5)
Min width 10  m 33  ft      (5)
Max width 24  m 79  ft    Longest straight (5)

Maspalomas: 1968 proposal, 4500 m original layout

Maspalomas: 1968 proposal, 4500 m original layout

Maspalomas: 1968 proposal, 4500 m original layout



Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
October 16th 2008     Guido de Carli   Roelard Smit Update Description
October 16th 2008     Guido de Carli     Update Description
April 15th 2006   1968 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli   New Description with map
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