Vallelunga

Track Layout

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History

Track Layout

Vallelunga Track Layout

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History

The Automobile race track is born from the transformation of a race course. The first automotive contest carries out 9 December 1951 on one track of

sand, as he is fashionable in those years in America, and is endured happening! 1957 have marked the definitive passage in the world of the motors of the old horse system. The plan of the track , in asphalt with the two tracings (" " international " club " and), comes prepared from the automotive champion Piero Taruffi, engineer and pilot. Still today, it comes recognized the greatest technical validity of the tracing, compound-fast, above all for the putting to point of the automobiles.

In the successive years the public begins to apprezzarne the highly spectacular characteristics. In January 1958 he comes given to beginning to the official agonistica activity on the short track " club ", long 1.746 meters and wide 10.

19 May 1963 comes inaugurated " the international " tracing (3.222 meters), accommodating the Great Prize Rome di Formula One that lacks very from the Capital from seven years, after to have been organized in the zones of Rome more notes: Monte Mario, Julia Valley, the Three Fontanas, Caracalla and on the Lido to Castelfusano.

From 1963 to the 1967 continuous Vallelunga to grow: on its impegnativo tracing and highly technical damage show pilots of the bore of Clay Regazzoni, Ignazio Joints (its busto in bronze is found in the main tree-lined avenue of the tribunes), Jochen Rindt, the Brambilla siblings, Arthur Merzario and others.

In the spring of 1967 the automobile race track becomes of property of the ACI.

In 1970 the sense of march from counter-clockwise comes invert to timetable, therefore they come transferred to the inside of the ring the remittances, the box, the Direction of Contest, the Room Press and other services. In the meantime one is come true modern able structure to accommodate diecimila watching.

After a long suspension of the activity in the spring of 1971 to Vallelunga it can finally be resumed the activity with one " Six Hours " valevole for the World-wide Championship Marches, race of F.1, F.2, F.3000, and F.3, united to other valevoli competitions for international and national championships of car and motion.


To the days ours the automobile race track is in continuous evolution for being more and more answering to the increased requirements of the user, is sport that commercial.

Between the jobs more recent than adaptation and modernization we remember:

the increase of the way of external escape to the " Curvone " in reduction after the goal, the point of the faster tracing and for this much difficult and impegnativo one, that with the new measure of adopted emergency it will be able without doubt to newly recall to Vallelunga the teams of F.1 for the winter tests, considered the good climatic conditions also during the winter season;

the increase also of the way of external escape to the curve " Rome "; the complete rifacimento in asphalt of the mantle of the track.

protection barriers anti-detritus on the wall of the box, elevator on the main building offices and Direction contest;

Information Courtesy of Vallelunga