🇫🇷Circuit Alès-Cévennes

Pôle Mécanique Alès-Cévennes is a 2.6 km, 13-corner motor racing circuit at Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues, just outside Alès in the Gard department of southern France — in the foothills of the Cévennes mountains. The mechanical sports centre was conceived in 1995 by Max Roustan (mayor of Alès) and Christophe Rivenq with the objective of rehabilitating the closed Alès coal mining basin through industrial automotive testing activity. After four years of construction, the circuit officially opened in July 1999. The layout has a unique feature among French circuits: it can be driven in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions (a rare option in France), and is offered in two main configurations — a 2.5 km technical layout and a faster 2.0 km variant. The 13 corners range from tight hairpins to fast curves, with a long main straight providing maximum speed sections between technical complexes. Alès-Cévennes is a regular venue for French national motorcycle championship rounds, the FFM Coupes de France Promosport, the FFM Open de France and a busy year-round trackday programme thanks to its mild Mediterranean-climate location.