Name: Circuit de Reims-Gueux
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Number of Grands Prix held: 11
Type: Road circuit, Clockwise
Location: Gueux, France
Track Length: 8.302 km (5.159 mi)
Seasons: 1950–1951, 1953–1954, 1956, 1958–1961, 1963, 1966
The circuit Reims-Gueux was a motor racing circuit made up of rural public roads, located in Gueux, 8 km (5 miles) west of Reims in the Champagne region of north-eastern France, established in 1926 as the second venue of the Grand Prix de la Marne. The triangular layout of public roads formed three sectors between the villages of Thillois and Gueux over the La Garenne / Gueux intersection of Route nationale 31. The circuit became known to be among the fastest of the era for its two long straights (approximately 2.2 km; 1¼ miles in length each) allowing maximum straight-line speed, resulting in many famous slipstream battles.
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