Reims Today, the old GP track.
 

On the way back from the Alps yesterday/today I took a slight detour and avoided all toll roads. Top marks go to Lizard's (from Lizard Logistics .com) recommendation of the Dijon to Troyes road, awesome, even in the dark after a few hours kip in the Pug just outside of Dijon. I made Reims with the sun out and a sprinkling of snow.

Eerie in the silence.

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RIP

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And following part of the post war circuit:

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A nice detour B)

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That's freking Cool Tim... ;-)

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very cool, nice detour there. they would charge you money to see that in this country, or turn it into houses.

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nice :cool:

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I am gonna be in that area in the summer. Could you put a link on google maps showing exactly where that is and which road you took.

Was it this one?

Cheers mate.

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Yep, that's the road,

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...h&z=17&iwloc=A

Should work as the map of the track.

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That's very cool :D

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Cheers

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just as well you werent on two wheels that day Tim!

Can you see the rest of it, or just the main straight ?

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I visited about 2/3rds of the track, it all used to be main roads, but many parts have been altered, one section doesn't exist etc. The only bit that looks like a track is around the stands/pits, apart from that you wouldn't realise it was a race track.