Angolan tracks

[NKT]

Someone of yours know something about Angolan tracks?

[dhart]

In the 60's Luanda had a street circuit, they used to qualify early hours of the morning to avoid the heat,a race for the winter springbok sporstcar series was held there but most cars overheated in the race! I think the circuit was also known as Nova Lisboa.
A 2.4 circuit at Benguela also existed, civil war meant their decline and there has been no return since the 60's.

[dhart]

Circuit maps for Luanda and Benguela can be found at racingcircuits.net click on Angola

[NKT]

This site I had visited yet.Iwould like to know more

[dhart]

Fortaleza and Restnoa also had circuits try
home.wanadoo.nl/the8wteam2/miscsc/miscsc.html
for the1957 to1965 race results of Angolan sportscar races

[NKT]

The site don`t work

[dhart]

it does

[NKT]

I will try again

[NKT]

Can you post de site,in order to have insant access

[Rob29]

Delete

[NKT]

Why?

[Rob29]

Thought I had answer but don't work for me either!

[Rob29]

Correction:link is correct but took me several attempts.Now the system will not let me edit my post after 10mins,having previously refused to delete it which was the reason for the cryptic 'delete' post!
Suggest you type more carefully NKT.

[dhart]

NKT have sent you a Private Message

[David McKinney]

It worked for me only after I inserted http:// before the actual URL in your original post

[spearce]

ANGOLA .......... I didn't realise you were so well travelled Dave !!!

[NKT]

I only can open «HOME.WANADOO.NL», the 8w twam doesn`t work.But if you can find other sites I thank

[racingdad]

Well, I actually raced a Lotus 47 at Luanda in 1970 (might have been 71, memory failure). I also hill climbed the darned thing in Cabinda - again 70 / 71. In both instances we took the cars by road from Kinshasa, our little team included a Gold Leaf Elan, a Cooper S, a Lotus Cortina and a couple of others I don't recall - and we had to negotiate our way across the war zone, all very civilised, just needed lots pf US$$$$$ and a fair amount of sang froid.

[racingdad]

And there is more - If I remember well (and I generally don't) the 1965 event had the amazing scene of a temporary foot bridge colapsing across the main straight - and the race continued, simply slowed down to drive around people & scaffolding while the organisors sorted the mess out!

[dhart]

www.tukutuku.com/galeria/galeria.htm should give you some reminders racingdad - maybe show matt a real race track!

[NKT]

I had seen at tukutuku, racingcircuits.net and GEL Motorsports

[Rob29]

Originally posted by NKT
I only can open «HOME.WANADOO.NL», the 8w twam doesn`t work.But if you can find other sites I thank

You need to spell it right,NKT.Its'the8wteam2' ONE WORD

[racingdad]

Originally posted by dhart
www.tukutuku.com/galeria/galeria.htm should give you some reminders racingdad - maybe show matt a real race track!

Thanks mate - back in the days when men were men and racing drivers didn't have either high earnings or a long life expectancy... Looking back I think we all must have been slightly insane, makes the so-called "x-treme sports" of modern youith look positively antiseptic - racing on roads - with the odd pothole - with the track lined by human arco as the only thing betwen you and a tree, a telephone pole, a wall - or a huge drop!

[racingdad]

More memories - photo of the Huambo tracj inauguration - that looks like MY Lotus 47 - but I don't remember actually racing there (and I can't have been that drunk), so think that was after I sold it to a young portuguese guy (which I did in 72, but thought it was later than May)- and the Elan following it is definately the one that also came from Kinshasa.. Am I old or what!

[NKT]

Are there a some video?In other forum , someone said to me that THERE ARE VIDEOS