🇫🇷Circuit Carole

Circuit Carole is a 2.055 km, 9-corner motor racing circuit at Tremblay-en-France in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of Île-de-France, next to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport — the only permanent motorcycle racing circuit in the Île-de-France region. Carole was inaugurated on 1 December 1979 in response to a 1970s public health crisis: as motorcycle fatalities surged across France, unsafe illegal night races at the Bastille and the halls of the Rungis market were killing many young riders, and the French state asked the municipality of Tremblay-lès-Gonesse to provisionally host a safe legal circuit. The track was named in memory of Carole Le Fol, an 18-year-old who died on 23 September 1977 as a motorcycle passenger. The first motorcycle lap record was set in 1980 by French Grand Prix rider Jacques Bolle in 1m 06.30s. The 18-hectare 3-straight, 9-corner layout (9 m wide) has hosted decades of French national motorcycle championship rounds, the FFM Coupes de France Promosport and a continuous, hugely popular trackday programme — including rider training, school days for novices and the famous Bol d'Or 24h endurance test sessions. Today Carole remains the spiritual home of the Parisian motorcycle scene.