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The lap record of the old triangle-shaped track is 3 minutes and 13.4 seconds, held by the French driver Henri Pescarolo, driving a Matra at the 1973 Spa 1000 km World Sportscar Championship race at an average speed of 262 km/h (163 mph), but the fastest ever recorded time of the old Spa circuit was the pole position time for the same race—3 ...
Prior to Formula One boycotting and then cancelling the 1969 Belgian Grand Prix because of the dangers of the ultra-high speed 8.7 mi (14.1 km) Spa-Francorchamps circuit, the track was fitted with Armco barriers in some places and was generally made safer. The layout had not been changed, however- and the circuit was still extremely fast and ...
Spa-Francorchamps had been shortened to 4.3 mi (7 km) in 1979; the parts that went into and through the urban countryside that swept past towns and other obstructions had been cut out and replaced with a new series of corners right before the Les Combes left-hand corner, and the new track rejoined the old on the straight leading up to Blanchimont.
All time distance record. 1973: Toine Hezemans Dieter Quester: BMW 3.0 CSL: 4422.980 184.290 European Touring Car Championship: 1974: Jean Xhenceval Alain Peltier: BMW 3.0 CSi 4147.289 172.804 Trophée de l'Avenir: Pierre Dieudonné was an entered driver but did not drive. [5] 1975: Jean Xhenceval Hughes de Fierlandt: BMW 3.0 CSi 4249.270 177. ...
2 hours walk (track) 29090 m + Thierry Toutain: 24 March 1991 Héricourt, France 30,000 m walk (track) 2:03:56.5 Thierry Toutain: 24 March 1991 Héricourt, France 35 km walk (road) 2:25:57 Aurélien Quinion: 28 October 2023 Lusatian International Race-Walking Meeting Zittau, Germany [41] 50,000 m walk (track) 3:35:27.20 Yohann Diniz: 12 March ...
The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is a race track that is 7.004 kilometres (4.352 mi) long and has twenty corners. [ 5 ] Endurance racing events were first held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in 1924 with the Spa 24 Hours . 39 years later, the track began holding 500 km (310 mi) World Sportscar Championship races which later expanded to ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
The 1992 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 30 ... an eventual record 91 Grand Prix ... car on the race track, ...