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A lap at old Zandvoort
We
start our lap at start/finish.
The famous Tarzan
Corner comes in sight ...
The Tarzan
Corner seen from above.
Exit
Tarzan Corner to the Gerlach Corner.
Exit Gerlach
Corner into the Hugenholtz
Corner.
After the Hugenholtz
Corner accelerating at the Hunserug ...
A view at the Rob
Slotemaker Corner, a "flat out" corner with a
variable chicane (since 1999)
mostly only used at track day's for motorcycles like today.
Below the
same part of the track in the nineties when it was not used.
The
Scheivlak,
one of the most challenging corners from Zandvoort.
Hard
braking here for the chicane called
Marlboro Corner. Look at the little
house with the red roof at the end of the barrier and keep it in
mind. We will see this house again ...
From the nineties back
to the present. Since 1999 the track turns right here to the new part.
A view from the opposite direction
at the new corner, seen from the site of the old
Marlboro Corner.
A view
from the same site to the other direction. Now here's a golf course,
but until 1985 here was the circuit. And look next to the trees on
the right, there is the little house with the red roof again!
Once upon a time here was a
race track, now there holes!
The
second kink of the Hondenvlak is still recognizable here!
We enter
the kink before Tunnel East.
Below a picture from 1998 at the same site, when a abandoned part of
the track was still there.
Here was
the kink before Tunnel East. A corner with a sad memory, it was the
site of two mortal accidents in Formula One in the seventies. Piers Courage in 1970
and Roger Williamson in 1973.
A view from
Tunnel East to the Hondenvlak. Above in 1978 and below in 2008.
After the fast kink
it goes to the tunnel ...
But the de tunnel is
gone!
Here was a tunnel
underneath the circuit.
And here the track
continued to the woods.
This part is now public road.
A little
further than the parked cars was the beginning of the very fast
right left combination "Bos In", which is Dutch for into the woods.
At the end of 1972 this corner was reconstructed to a chicane, the
Panorama Corner.
This site is now the beginning of a holiday resort (see picture
below).
In the holiday resort
is still a piece of the surface of the original circuit.
Here was the exit of the
Bos
In/Panorama Corner. Over the dunes to Bos Uit.
At this
top of the dune was the beginning of the long right hand corner, called "Bos Uit"
(Dutch for out of the woods), leading to the long straight.
The end of the corner
is still there at Paddock 3.
Look at
the angle between the surface and the fence. You can recognize the
banking of the
corner here!
In the
old day's this was the beginning of the 1050 metres long straight.
Now it's the end of the last piece of surface from the old part of
the circuit ...
And
here's the new part of the circuit connecting to the original part.
But the straight is now a few hundred metres shorter.
And here we end our
lap at start/finish.
© Text
and pictures: Herman Liesemeijer Map: Rob Petersen Picture
from 1978: Rob Soethoudt Track walk pictures Jasper Heijmans |
