| GBR - UNITED KINGDOM | |||||||||||||||||||||
| LONDON (1968) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Crystal Palace - London (2004) - London ExCeL - London Olympic Park - London, Docklands - London, Revolution Karting - Wembley Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | This circuit in 1968 won the Autosport competition for a street circuit. In 1980 it was nearly to put in use. In 2007 Tour de France (bike) run first stage on a similar circuit, equal to this one in Hyde Park area. Some sections are in common with 2004 proposal. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | London LND - London, City of (London borough) - England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | In London center, trough Hyde Park and St.James Park and some more famous spots as Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and Admirality Arch | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 51°30'12" - 0°09'04" 51.503333 -0.151111 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 697716.481 - Y = 5709648.326 - Zone 30U | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 17 m - 56 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Inauguration | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Closing | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Designer | Nichols John Nichols | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| London (1968) | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | |||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
YES
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| Proposal not developed | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | January 10th 2008 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | The Mall - Constitution Hill - Duke of Wellington Place - Piccadilly Arcade - Park Lane - Hyde Park Corner - Serpentine Road / Park Straight - Serpentine Corner - Exhibition Road - The Ring - Queens Gate Corner - Kensington Road - Knightsbridge - Piccadilly Straight - Piccadilly Circus / Eros Chicane - Haymarket - Cockspur Street - Trafalgar Square - Whitehall - Admirality Arch | ||||
| length | 8047 m | 26399 ft | 5 mi | (4) | |
| length | 8172 m | 26810 ft | 5.078 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (3) |
London: comparison between 1968, 2004 and London Olympic Park proposals
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
London 1968
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| January 10th 2008 | Guido de Carli | jab | jab | New | Description with map | ||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
