Circuito Lasarte

Circuito Lasarte
Location	Lasarte-Oria, Guipúzcoa, Spain
Time zone	GMT +1
Length	17.749 km (11.029 mi)
Race lap record	5:58 ( Achille Varzi, Auto Union, 1935)

The Circuito Lasarte was an 11.029-mile (17.749-kilometre) Grand Prix motor racing road course at Lasarte-Oria, Guipúzcoa, Spain in the Basque Country near the resort town of San Sebastián on the Bay of Biscay. The counterclockwise layout was used between 1923 and 1935 but racing ended with the eruption of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and after the war auto racing resumed at new tracks near Barcelona.

Start of Spanish Grand Prix 1929

Alfa Romeo team before the start, Lasarte GP Guipúzcoa / GP Spain 1929-07-28

The Circuito Lasarte played host to the San Sebastian Grand Prix seven times (1923-5, 1927–30), the Spanish Grand Prix five times (1926–27, 1933–35) and the 1926 European Grand Prix. No longer operational for auto racing, in 1965 the layout was used for the World Cycling Championship.

Grand Prix results

San Sebastian Grand Prix

1923 Albert Guyot driving a Rolland-Pilain
1924 Henry Segrave driving a Sunbeam
1925 Albert Divo/André Morel driving a Delage 2LCV

European Grand Prix

1926 Jules Goux driving a Bugatti T39A

References

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