Mantorp Park 1.0

[royalzed23]

royalzed23 submitted a new resource:

Mantorp Park - Swedish racing circuit (1969-1980 version)

Location: Mantorp, Sweden

Major events: European Formula Two Championship (1971-1973), Swedish Formula Three Championship, Swedish Touring Car Championship

Off point: starting line is placed on the straight known as "Strippen" instead of its original position between "Depakurvan" and "Startkurvan" turns.

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[JockeP22]

I made my own attempt at recreating the modern layout here;
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/mantorp-park-sweden.340980/

Swedish racing circuit (1969-1980 version)
Length: 3,766

According to Auto Motor & Sport and Wikipedia the old layout was 4,100m
with a lap record of 1:24.0.

They were originally planning on calling the track Mantorp Ring but before
completion settled on the name Mantorp Park.
Total cost for the 1968-1969 construction was estimated to SEK4,000,000 or
$471,000 of modern currency.

35,000 people came for the inaugural event and fifty speakers had been placed
around the track.

Ronnie Peterson's manager Staffan Svenby almost got Formula 1 to Mantorp as
he hired a helicopter during one of the Anderstorp F1 races and flew Bernie Ecclestone
to Mantorp showing him the track. Sadly it never materialised.