My recollection from the mid-60's is that the entrance road approached the straight away between turns 4 and 1. Now that's a 40+ year old memory.
Pete Rutledge
Woodbridge, VA USA
> Does anyone know if the main entrance road to the velodrome is now coming
> in from another direction, or perhaps if the velodrome itself is
> differently oriented? I visited last year and it appears that one now
> approaches the straight away between turns 4 and 1. My memory from 1972 is
> that one approached the turn between 1 and 2, on the entrance road. Isn't
> it funny how one can retain an image from 34 years ago, and hold it in
> one's pictured memory? It was retained through trillions of nerve firings,
> and through thousands of days and nights without the fading one might
> expect on Kodak paper. I only rode the velodrome once back then, and would
> like to edit my memory to match the actual facts.
>
> Garth Libre in Miami Fl preparing for the 6:00 A.M. hammer ride in Key
> Biscayne tomorrow.