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CONTINENTAL DIVIDE RACEWAY | |||||||||
Description | Circuit open in 1959 and closed somewhen later. Then, maybe in 1970s, it was reopened, closed again in 1979 because of a fatal crash, reopened in 1981 for Clud races only and finally closed in 1983. Today the circuit doesn’t exist anymore and it is not visible on aerial photos. Not to be confused with Continental Divide Race Park (Mountain View Motorsports Park) | ||||||||
Location | Castle Rocks CO - Colorado - Western States | ||||||||
Location | Approx 4 km - 2.5 mi South of Castle Rocks, 36 km from Denver and from Colorado Springs (Colorado) | ||||||||
Latitude - Longitude | + 39°19'59" -104°53'34" 39.333056 -104.892778 | ||||||||
UTM Coordinates | X = 509240.858 - Y = 4353742.705 - Zone 13S | ||||||||
Aerial photo / Map (*) | OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - Microsoft Research Maps - MapQuest | ||||||||
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Inauguration | 1959 | ||||||||
Closing | |||||||||
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Oval course | |||||
Description | |||||
Years | 1959÷1983 | ||||
Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | |||||
Type | Oval course | ||||
Inauguration | |||||
Closing | |||||
Last update of this page | May 4th 2003 | ||||
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Designer | |||||
Distinctive points | |||||
length | 805 m | 2640 ft | 1/2 mi | (2) |
Road course | |||||
Description | |||||
Years | 1959÷1983 | ||||
Direction | Anticlockwise | ||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | |||||
Type | Permanent | ||||
Inauguration | 1959 | ||||
Closing | 1983 | ||||
Last update of this page | May 4th 2003 | ||||
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Designer | |||||
Distinctive points | |||||
length | 4506 m | 14784 ft | 2.8 mi | (2) | |
length | 4280 m | 14042 ft | 2.66 mi | (1) | |
Width | 9.14 m | 30 ft | (1) |
Continental Divide Raceway | |||||
Description | |||||
Years | |||||
Direction | |||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | |||||
Type | Asphalted Drag strip | ||||
Inauguration | |||||
Closing | |||||
Last update of this page | January 21st 2007 | ||||
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Designer | |||||
Distinctive points | |||||
length | 1280 m | 4200 ft | 0.795 mi |
Continental Divide Raceway
Updates | |||||||
Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
January 21st 2007 |   | Guido de Carli | |||||
May 16th 2004 | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | New | Description with map | |||
May 4th 2003 | Guido de Carli | New | Description | ||||
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list |