| ANG - ANGOLA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LUANDA, AUTÓDROMO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Fortaleza, Marginal - Luanda, autódromo, Morro da Samba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Permanent circuit, inaugurated on May 28th 1972. It was the second permanent circuit in Angola, after Benguela. Its construction started in mid 1971 and they were directed by Brazilian architect Ayrton Cornelson (the same who built Estoril, inaugurated only 21 days later than Luanda) and to Engineer Júlio Basso. Its promoters, António Pinto da Fonseca, Rui Gonzaga Martins and the driver António Peixinho, wanted to call in Angola best cars and drivers. Contrary to what happened in Benguela, this circuit was quite ready on the inauguration day: race direction tower was nearly ready, access roads, heliport and 30 large boxere were ready. Tribunes were temporary, final ones for 20000 spectators have been made later. On track, main new were light panel to be used to segnalize ro driver instead of usual flags. According to somebody, when finished this circuit could have been the best in the world, even better than Nivelles (Belgium), at that time considered the best. This circuit was soon abandoned because of civil war that hit Angola after indipendence, in 1975. Now the circuit is still in use for few local races: in 2007 it will host and event of Angolan Championship. Non to be confused with Morro da Samba proposed circuit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Barra do Cuanza - Luanda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Approx 30 km - 18.5 mi South of Luanda. along the road to Barra do Cuanza and no more than 1 km - 0.6 mi from the Sea. During Portuguese colonization (ended in 1975) it was named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | - 9°00'35" + 13°05'49" -9.009722 13.096944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 290796.286 - Y = 9003528.752 - Zone 33L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 60 m - 197 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | May 28th 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Designer | Ayrton Cornelson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Luanda, autódromo | |||||
| Description | Circuit #5 is the longest available. I don’t know the length of track #2. | ||||
| Years | 1972÷... | ||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Permanent | ||||
| Inauguration | May 28th 1972 | ||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 3rd 2006 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 3208 m | 10525 ft | 1.993 mi | Circuit # 1 | (2) |
| length | 4414 m | 14482 ft | 2.743 mi | Circuit # 3 | (2) |
| length | 5780 m | 18963 ft | 3.592 mi | Circuit # 4 | (2) |
| length | 6280 m | 20604 ft | 3.902 mi | Circuit # 5 | (2) |
All layouts
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| June 3rd 2006 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | Update | Description with map | |||
| July 28th 2005 | Guido de Carli | New | Description without map | ||||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
