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Circuits of the past
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Are you a nostalgic set motorsport fan and circuit lover? Then this is the channel for you! Here you find videos of the motor racing circuits of the past, and sometimes of the present too. I upload new videos on Friday.
My name is Herman Liesemeijer, I live in the Netherlands in a town called Heerenveen. My fascination for lost race tracks started after a visit to the abandoned circuit of Nivelles-Baulers in Belgium in 1998. In 2003 I founded the MSM Group "Circuits of the past", which became a real website in 2008. This website is dedicated to the lost racing circuits. Through the years I visited many old race tracks.
Since 2014 I'm focusing on making videos. In 2018 I bought a drone to make spectacular aerial footage and I started with live vlogs.
I hope you enjoy my videos and subscribe to my channel.
Herman Liesemeijer
My name is Herman Liesemeijer, I live in the Netherlands in a town called Heerenveen. My fascination for lost race tracks started after a visit to the abandoned circuit of Nivelles-Baulers in Belgium in 1998. In 2003 I founded the MSM Group "Circuits of the past", which became a real website in 2008. This website is dedicated to the lost racing circuits. Through the years I visited many old race tracks.
Since 2014 I'm focusing on making videos. In 2018 I bought a drone to make spectacular aerial footage and I started with live vlogs.
I hope you enjoy my videos and subscribe to my channel.
Herman Liesemeijer
Revival Circuit Nivelles-Baulers, Belgium - Building up Revival Track
Revival Circuit Nivelles-Baulers, Belgium - Building up Revival Track
A track walk during the construction of the revival circuit on the site of the lost Nivelles-Baulers Circuit. Nivelles-Baulers was a race track that hosted the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix twice. Both races were won by Emerson Fittipaldi.
The track opened in 1971 and closed in 1981 because of financial trouble. The Nivelles-Baulers Circuit was only 3.7 Km long, because the circuit owners couldn't buy the nessacary land. They want to built the full track in two phases, so a shorter version opened first.
But when the track was open, the land owner want more money for the ground for the proposed extension. That was too much, and so the Nivelles-Baulers Circuit was never finished.
After it's closure in 1981 it was used for illegal racing. In 1998 they start with the preparation works to redevolep the abandoned circuit into a business park.
On Sunday June 23 there will be a revival of the lost circuit, with demo races on a part of the original track. In the evening before I made this track walk.
#Nivelles #F1 #BelgianGP
A track walk during the construction of the revival circuit on the site of the lost Nivelles-Baulers Circuit. Nivelles-Baulers was a race track that hosted the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix twice. Both races were won by Emerson Fittipaldi.
The track opened in 1971 and closed in 1981 because of financial trouble. The Nivelles-Baulers Circuit was only 3.7 Km long, because the circuit owners couldn't buy the nessacary land. They want to built the full track in two phases, so a shorter version opened first.
But when the track was open, the land owner want more money for the ground for the proposed extension. That was too much, and so the Nivelles-Baulers Circuit was never finished.
After it's closure in 1981 it was used for illegal racing. In 1998 they start with the preparation works to redevolep the abandoned circuit into a business park.
On Sunday June 23 there will be a revival of the lost circuit, with demo races on a part of the original track. In the evening before I made this track walk.
#Nivelles #F1 #BelgianGP
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Linas Montlhery vs Rouen les Essarts - Battle of the Race Circuits 20
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Linas Montlhery vs Rouen les Essarts - Battle of the Race Circuits 20 In the 20th battle of the race circuits we have a French internal battle between two different type of circuits. Linas-Montlhéry defeated the Sitges-Terramar with an overwhelming majority of votes. And the new contender you vote for is Rouen-les-Essarts. 0:00 Introduction 0:35 Linas-Montlhéry 2:30 Rouen-les-Essarts The “Autod...
Les Amis du Circuit de Gueux - Renovation Day at Reims-Gueux Circuit
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Les Amis du Circuit de Gueux - Renovation Day at Reims-Gueux Circuit In this video we show you the restoration of the Reims-Gueux Circuit, Formula One’s ultimate abandoned circuit. The Reims-Gueux Circuit was operational from 1926 to 1972. It actually was a street circuit with permanent pit and grandstand facilities. Reims-Gueux hosted the Formula 1 French Grand Prix and the 12 Hours of Reims-G...
Linas Montlhery vs Sitges Terramar - Battle of the Race Circuits 19
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Sitges Terramar vs Brooklands - Battle of the Race Circuits 12
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Abandoned F1 Track Nivelles Baulers Belgium 2023
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Charade Clermont Ferrand vs Österreichring - Battle of the Race Circuits 11
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5:46 haha funny I can see my hometown from here
Oftersheim?
@@Circuitsofthepast No Leimen it has a White chimney
As a local it just hurts to see 😭
Lol yea just because the track was there before everybody else who don't care about racing and don't want noise pollution can go f themselves Such a dumb, simplistic perspective. Try some empathy man, place yourself in the mind of another for a change.
Unless you show some sort of layout of were the track was, we just looking at an open gazing field eh
Alguma parte do antigo circuito foi usado nesta apresentação?
a part of the old Start/Finish straight and a section between Turn 1 and 2. That's what you see in the video. They just leave the original layout at that point.
%100 Rouen
Rouen is one of the most dangerous and fun tracks to drive, its incredibly underrated
Jackie Stewart raced against François Cevert in a Formula 2 race at Reims in 1969, which Cevert won. Cevert’s performance made a strong impression on Stewart, leading to Cevert being signed by the Tyrrell team the following year.
Herman thank you for sharing and showing us the old abandoned F1 race circuits...
Graag gedaan
@@Circuitsofthepast Reims-Gieux bezoek ik regelmatig..
A beautiful day to be at the racetrack!
Ciao Herman 👍 Min 2:45 ⚡ In a bad driver compilation 🤬 Min 23:48 perfetto Italiano, bravo🍀🏁❤️
Grazie :)
Ciao Herman, bellissimo reportage 👍 Realy good🏎️🏁🇮🇹
Dommage I miss the event I’m not to far from Bruxelles 😢
Satsuma
Ja das ist super
Danke.
No comments?
You're the first.
@@Circuitsofthepast I see, dio
👍👍👍 I hope they let you drive a lap afterwards so we can see the revival event layout
Beautiful day at Nivelles. Thank, Herman, for bringing us to the action!
You're welcome.
❤️🏁🍀 Ciao 👍
Ciao
Congratulations👋🏻 🇧🇷🏁
Thanks
I am a long time fan of your videos. But in this case I have to say I would prefer an edited version. Can't wait for that.
No worries, there wil come several editet video's of this revival weekend too. Firs a vlog style video with myself. Later also with voiceover by the one and only Simon Smith.
Thanks mate. It's always sad to see old race tracks disappear and though Nivelles wasn't a great track ( though better than most modern F1 circuits) at least the site is now populated by buildings where people can work instead of golf courses where the bosses bat little balls about thinking they're fxxking sportsmen ........ Cadours next please 😄
You're welcome. Yes, Nivelles was not popular in it's time, because it was a replacement for old Spa-Francorchamps and it's time far ahead about safety. As you said, it was better than most modern F1 tracks of today. The section called Big Loop was great. Good one about the golf courses :)
Ciao Herman the sound Is good. I'm Sorry for later i was at job
Ciao Yuri. Grazie e buon weekend.
Very nice and thank you for putting this together. Rouen is my choice. I’m so old I recall when F1 still raced there. However, the other track does seem quite interesting.
Rouen without a doubt!
Montlhery.
Rouen - should still be a thing even today 👍
Rouen - I love them both, but Rouen just has the edge
No contest for me. Rouen all the way.
Rouen!
Sainte-Jovite would also be a good contender!
Yes, it's a great track. But I don't have footage of it. When I ever go to Canada I will visit it.
I can only talk from my sim-racing experience, but Rouen les Essarts always was one of my favourites and it is up again in a few days.
Loved Rouen since Grand Prix Legends.
I vote for Rouen, I still play simulators there today!!
Rouen by a long long way. Been there loads of times and feel the ghosts each time (whereas these days you can't actually get into the grounds of Montlhery). Proper track, only perhaps equalled by the old Spa. Six Freres is the 3rd corner not the whole section incidentally and was renamed Virage Des Roches when the chicane was built there in 1974 after Gerry Birrell's accident the previous year. If you visit, make sure you clamber through the trees and find the tarmac still there of the Gresil Curve by-passed after 1971 which is hidden after the motorway bridge that goes over the circuit.
Thanks for the aditional information. I allways thought Six Freres was the name of the whole section. I have the information from an article in a magazine I read long ago.
Monthlery for me.
Rouen is beautiful, I used to love driving it in the GPL simulation.
+ rFactor
I vote for linas monthlery because the Rouen track was very bad on its original layout one of the worst I know but the last configuration was better
great video...I live not far away from the holy ground...but I never came around to visit the Südschleife
Time to visit it. You now know where it is :)
Ciao Herman, Happy weekend 👍 Why Monza don't win? Today I vote Montlhery. Grazie ciao 🇮🇹🏁
Happy weekend Yuri.
Rouen has always had a certain appeal to me. I remember being fascinated when reading about Six Freres and the 'chicken's lift' story (remember the period and thus speed of these machines when it was named). The abridged version is my favourite layout; especially in Project Cars 2; driving the undulations with the sun coming through the trees is bliss.
I vote for the Línas Montlhery circuit
When you mention about people moving close to a racing track and complaining about the noise, I really want to make a series of videos screaming of rage at the camera and ask(demand) them all to move out or never live close a racing track if you don't like the beautiful roar of racing cars ;)
Sad to see, miss the old high speed circuit, thanks for posting