Reims GP circuit address

Reims GP circuit address

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Wozy68

5,387 posts

169 months

Saturday 28th June 2014
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DIW35 said:
I'm with Chris71. My last couple of tours down to Italy may have been pre-planned using both conventional maps, and Autoroute on the PC, but once the route was finalised, it was all downloaded to the sat nav.

The last thing I or my passenger want to be doing when travelling through beautiful countryside on good roads is to have our head stuck inside the car reading a map.
Noooo, part.of the fun is getting the map out. Otherwise it's just a kind of computer dictating which route you should be taking. Unless hurrying for a ferry, sometimes you find the best places when lost smile

Magic919

14,126 posts

200 months

Saturday 28th June 2014
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I was there earlier today too. Got a rainy photo to prove. Was easy enough to locate it without a map. Amazing sight and site.

A900ss

3,245 posts

151 months

Saturday 28th June 2014
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Here's my rainy pic from today...



matt3001

1,991 posts

196 months

Tuesday 1st July 2014
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Chris71 said:
r129sl said:
This is the tyranny of sat nav at work.

Engage brain: it is a disused road circuit not a single point of destination. It does not have an address. It can be identified on a map with ease.

Buy a map: you will enjoy your journey rather than endure it. Buy a map: you will be able to exercise active choice over your route rather than passively suffer the electronic dimwit's directions. Buy a map: your surroundings will mean something to you rather than be off screen mystery.

Michelin makes the best road atlases of France. I cannot imagine any sentient motorist going to France without the latest Michelin 1:200,000 road atlas.
Not convinced by that. While I find it quite interesting browsing a real map, there's nothing quantifiable that you can't also do with a sat nav. You can plot out the most intricate route in the world if you wish using programs like TYRE. You can add interesting looking turnings that you otherwise might miss; you can switch to a satelite view while planning your route and check to see if a road looks too built up or too narrow to have fun; you can use it to locate your position if you find yourself on an unknown road and mark it for future knowledge; you can if you want use it as a basic sat nav and not have to scrabble around with a map for functional A-to-B transport; and if you so desire - much like a map - you can turn it off and pretend it's not there.

If you're on your own in the car messing around with a map can be a pain. With the sat nav you can specify exactly where it goes and just wait for it to call out directions.

I'm perfectly adept with a map (I grew up with things like Ten Tors on Dartmoor) and Id id indeed take a 1:200,000 road atlas on my last trip to France, but it didn't get looked at once. Even with road closures and such like I simply set out an itinerary on my TomTom, by placing points on the map screen, then wound my way through the country lanes to and from the circuit.

I agree it's wrong to be dependent on technology with no back up, but I don't see why you'd take pride in shunning a useful tool.

Anyway, in answer to the original question, not sure. Richard Meaden did a book on classic motorsport routes recently which has a lot of info in it, there may be some co-ordinates there. Will take a glance at my copy later...
How did you get on looking at that book?

Magic919

14,126 posts

200 months

Tuesday 1st July 2014
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My rainy Reims shot.


Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Wednesday 2nd July 2014
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Both of the recent pics have a certain sad quality with just a single car present.
Such a historic location needs a big group drawn up in echelon, Le Mans style, to bring it to life.


TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Wednesday 2nd July 2014
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Red Devil said:
Both of the recent pics have a certain sad quality with just a single car present.
Such a historic location needs a big group drawn up in echelon, Le Mans style, to bring it to life.
Depends.

If your aim is a pretty photo, then - yes.
If you actually want to get some of the atmosphere of the place, then - gawd, no. The fewer other people there, the better. That'll allow you to just wander in silence through the pits and get an echo of the heyday of the place. It's incredibly powerful and moving.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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I'm unashamedly reviving an old thread to say thank you for the info- map and GPS here- and to share a couple of pictures and words which I've plucked from my reader's car thread-

And then appearing beyond some blonde wheat fields under a black sky that still managed to have bright sunshine beaming through- then the garages of Reims circuit appeared. I've never paid pilgrimage to them before, and I felt lucky to have stunning weather and the place to myself. It genuinely does feel like the ghosts of competitors and spectators, kids with their dads and rich gentleman racers, are there still. It's a must visit site for any petrolhead.







blongs

192 posts

134 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Rained for me too....

yorkieboy

1,845 posts

174 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Last 6 months I have driven my lorry past Reims on several occaisions. . The temptation to visit is very high! But I'm tracked so I darn't go off route :/ It Is very much near the top of my bucket list of places to visit though.

Dblue

3,252 posts

199 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Chris71 said:
r129sl said:
This is the tyranny of sat nav at work.

Engage brain: it is a disused road circuit not a single point of destination. It does not have an address. It can be identified on a map with ease.

Buy a map: you will enjoy your journey rather than endure it. Buy a map: you will be able to exercise active choice over your route rather than passively suffer the electronic dimwit's directions. Buy a map: your surroundings will mean something to you rather than be off screen mystery.

Michelin makes the best road atlases of France. I cannot imagine any sentient motorist going to France without the latest Michelin 1:200,000 road atlas.
Not convinced by that. While I find it quite interesting browsing a real map, there's nothing quantifiable that you can't also do with a sat nav. You can plot out the most intricate route in the world if you wish using programs like TYRE. You can add interesting looking turnings that you otherwise might miss; you can switch to a satelite view while planning your route and check to see if a road looks too built up or too narrow to have fun; you can use it to locate your position if you find yourself on an unknown road and mark it for future knowledge; you can if you want use it as a basic sat nav and not have to scrabble around with a map for functional A-to-B transport; and if you so desire - much like a map - you can turn it off and pretend it's not there.

If you're on your own in the car messing around with a map can be a pain. With the sat nav you can specify exactly where it goes and just wait for it to call out directions.

I'm perfectly adept with a map (I grew up with things like Ten Tors on Dartmoor) and Id id indeed take a 1:200,000 road atlas on my last trip to France, but it didn't get looked at once. Even with road closures and such like I simply set out an itinerary on my TomTom, by placing points on the map screen, then wound my way through the country lanes to and from the circuit.

I agree it's wrong to be dependent on technology with no back up, but I don't see why you'd take pride in shunning a useful tool.

Anyway, in answer to the original question, not sure. Richard Meaden did a book on classic motorsport routes recently which has a lot of info in it, there may be some co-ordinates there. Will take a glance at my copy later...
All good points Chris but after thinking just the same and heading off to France for our annual sojourn last year, TYRE routes all loaded and the whole thing "planned"
I found myself cursing the lack of Michelins brilliant maps. As soon as my route was affected by traffic , delays etc , re- planning on the cars sat nav or my TomTom was just hopeless
They just don't allow you to see the way places join together and I ended up doing the very worst you can do on a road trip , following sat nav routes blindly and not really knowing where I was or how it was I got there.
Now, experience has shown me that the way it works in countries with less brilliant mapping , and I include the Uk in that, mean its not as easy as in France.





TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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yorkieboy said:
Last 6 months I have driven my lorry past Reims on several occaisions. . The temptation to visit is very high! But I'm tracked so I darn't go off route :/ It Is very much near the top of my bucket list of places to visit though.
The pits are only a few km from the autoroute.
https://goo.gl/maps/ckc5UvqpBv72

Sorry. You probably didn't need to know that, did you?

yorkieboy

1,845 posts

174 months

Saturday 1st July 2017
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TooMany2cvs said:
yorkieboy said:
Last 6 months I have driven my lorry past Reims on several occaisions. . The temptation to visit is very high! But I'm tracked so I darn't go off route :/ It Is very much near the top of my bucket list of places to visit though.
The pits are only a few km from the autoroute.
https://goo.gl/maps/ckc5UvqpBv72

Sorry. You probably didn't need to know that, did you?
Umm not really no biggrin, I don't know if a articulated lorry will go there? It is so tempting knowing it is not that far away. Better to do a long weekend in my 4.2 XK8

Allyc85

7,225 posts

185 months

Saturday 1st July 2017
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yorkieboy said:
Last 6 months I have driven my lorry past Reims on several occaisions. . The temptation to visit is very high! But I'm tracked so I darn't go off route :/ It Is very much near the top of my bucket list of places to visit though.
If only you coincidentally time your passing near the Gp circuit with one of your mandatory breaks! hehe

SmilerFTM

829 posts

149 months

Saturday 1st July 2017
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yorkieboy said:
Umm not really no biggrin, I don't know if a articulated lorry will go there? It is so tempting knowing it is not that far away. Better to do a long weekend in my 4.2 XK8
Your biggest issue is this, if you can go all the way around that, I'm guessing you can as it's a fairly large roundabout, you'll be fine

SmilerFTM

829 posts

149 months

Saturday 1st July 2017
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It was baking hot there just over 4 years ago when I went


yorkieboy

1,845 posts

174 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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I could very easily manoeuvre around that biggrin I drove my lorry to Monaco! and onto the circuit! I was a driving god In my eyes negotiating them tunnels and narrow streets.