Birmingham superprix

[Jimmy Choo]

I watched this Aiden Milward youtube on the superprix yesterday.



and Youtube very kindly spat this out today.



Where would you want to put a street race in the UK?

[dinny_g]

Milton Keynes - so I could walk and not have to pay parking...

[Jobbo]

I’m not sure if there’s any visible evidence left of the Superprix now but there was until quite recently - bits of striped kerb at the Ladywood Middleway/Bristol Street junction were there for decades afterwards.

I watched it on telly at the time. But was disappointed that it wasn’t F1 even then.

[Mito Man]

I came across a street race which was so shit I forgot to even mention it. A few weeks ago at the DLR at Excel I thought I could hear some people vigorously pleasuring themselves with dildos however a short walk later and I came across the least advertised race in London

Best seats in the house for free and everyone just walking past.
I watched for a few minutes then I realised that electric racing is so awful that you couldn’t pay me to watch it.

[Jimmy Choo]

Formula E is a bizarre mix of formula car looks and elbows out BTCC style racing. I quite enjoyed watching the highlights this year.

[Jobbo]

Looking for when the last evidence of the Superprix disappeared, I'm not sure it has completely. The holes for the Armco supports along Belgrave Middleway (not Ladywood Middleway as I said above - I meant Belgrave) are still visible in the pavement: https://goo.gl/maps/NvL6YMRanCxqHuKRA

[integrale_evo]

You can still see how the roundabout was reshaped to be a hairpin too. At least on Google maps, don’t know if it’s been altered in real life.

[mik]

Getting so many 6R4’s together with such talented pilots should have been an awesome spectacle….. but just wasn’t.

Street circuits strike again….

[Jobbo]

You can still see how the roundabout was reshaped to be a hairpin too. At least on Google maps, don’t know if it’s been altered in real life.

That roundabout is on quite an angle; as a hairpin it would have been almost banked. I imagine that was intentional.