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28 Jan 2006, 22:07 (Ref:1510958)
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Ibsley Race Circuit
Any forum users have memories of Ibsley Race Circuit (near Ringwood Hants)
I believe it was used in the fifties and its old site is just down the road from me. |
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29 Jan 2006, 09:04 (Ref:1511130)
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Is that the oval at Ringwood, if so i raced there once or twice and it was pretty good as I recollect.
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29 Jan 2006, 09:23 (Ref:1511136)
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No it was an airfield. last used in May 55-for an F.Libre race won by Roy Salvadori in Maserati 250F.
Circuit length 2.09 miles-organized by West Hants & Dorset Motor Club |
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30 Jan 2006, 13:40 (Ref:1511912)
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Now a gravel pit? (and heading for landfill?). There is a picture in Chris Nixon's "Mon Ami Mate" of Mike Hawthorn about to drive the last lap there in Rob Walker's 300SL (believed not the same car he later died racing against on the road).
SS_C from here took a look over the hedge there a couple of years ago. |
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30 Jan 2006, 13:54 (Ref:1511924)
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I went there in 1955 to watch my cousin race his new Lister Bristol, a car which he later sold to Austen (Austin?) Nurse who had a bad crash in it. The car was somehow resurrected as a Lister Jaguar which was still racing recently, it bears the original registration number HCH something. The circuit was the perimiter of the old airfield, and was not too popular!
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30 Jan 2006, 14:03 (Ref:1511930)
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A big wet hole now (gravel pit)
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4 May 2007, 12:04 (Ref:1906509)
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I tried to get in through the fencing the other day, to no avail. I'l have to go back when its darker, I'm in camo and have my armbands on! Sadly too many houses close by now for their ever to be racing, even if it were landfilled succesfully! |
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