Our good friend and contributor Rob Andrews was fortunate sufficient to get to race a number of 500cc Grand Prix occasions on the Citadelle in Namur, Belgium. It’s arguably probably the most well-known motocross monitor in historical past. But it surely’s been closed to grime bike races since 2007, sadly. Andrews, whose e-book The Inside Line is an incredible motocross memoir, just lately visited and videoed the outdated Belgian fortress for a guided monitor stroll.
It is actually a stroll down the reminiscence lane of motocross, as a result of Namur was the epicenter of Grand Prix motocross from 1947 to 2007. Andrews not solely factors out the place the monitor ran round what is actually a nationwide park in Belgium, he tells tales about what precisely occurred at sure junctures. And because the first video got here out, readers and followers have been supplying him with outdated pictures from races passed by. Test it out.
And when you missed half one, watch it beneath.
Take a look at extra on Namur within the Might 2020 difficulty of Racer X Illustrated beneath.
No different motocross monitor on this planet was as magnificent, awe-inspiring, or absurd because the Citadel of Namur in Belgium (learn or hear).
