{"id":37065,"date":"2014-07-10T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T10:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37065"},"modified":"2022-06-28T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:29:10","slug":"autodrome-de-linas-montlhery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/culture\/autodrome-de-linas-montlhery\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic circuit – Autodrome de Linas-Montlh\u00e9ry"},"content":{"rendered":"

image: Laurent Nivalle<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s something about old European race circuits. They reek of history, panache and culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And none is more redolent of these things than the Autodrome de Linas-Montlh\u00e9ry. The circuit, just a little bit to the south of Paris, was opened in 1924 with those killer banks set in the forest. Later a road circuit was added and the place became firmly lodged in the Pantheon of motorsport – and hosted the Grands Prix of France throughout the thirties.<\/p>\n

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Tragically the place seems to have had a very checkered history since the second world war – and doesn’t seem to have been used in officially sanctioned anger at all these last few decades.<\/p>\n

Lovely to see, then, that a bunch of bikers decided to hold a Cafe Racer festival there recently.<\/p>\n

Not sure how we missed this. Next time.<\/strong><\/p>\n