Name: Rouen-Les-Essarts
Grand Prix: French Grand Prix
Number of Grands Prix held: 5
Type: Road circuit, Clockwise
Location: Orival, France
Track Length: 6.542 km (4.065 mi)
Seasons: 1952, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1968
Rouen-Les-Essarts was a 5.543 km (3.444 mi) motor racing circuit in Orival, near Rouen, France.
From its opening in 1950, Rouen-Les-Essarts was recognized as one of Europe’s finest circuits, with modern pits, a wide track, and spectator grandstands. The street circuit (which ran on public roads) had a few medium straights, a cobbled hairpin turn (Nouveau Monde) at the southernmost tip, and a few blind corners through a wooded hillside The appeal was greatly enhanced by the climb from Nouveau Monde at 56 m (184 ft) to Gresil at 149 m (489 ft), with gradients over 9%.
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