Barcelona – Catalunya was built between 1989 and 1991 to provide Catalonia with a modern circuit after decades during which the speed motorcycle competition had mainly taken place in two locations: Sitges and Montjuic Park.
If the latter can still evoke some beautiful battles for the oldest among you, few people suspect the existence of the spectacular route of Sitges Terramar, a sort of French Monthléry whose beginnings date back to 1922 but which, unfortunately, will be far from experiencing the expected success.
Certainly, it is not very new, but without inflicting on you today the complete history of these installations (see here) which date from a time when having an autodrome was then a sign of prosperity and modernism, just know that you can still explore it on foot and soak up the place.
To do this, simply go to Sitges, a town located a good twenty kilometers south of Barcelona via the C-32 motorway, exit at exit #26 and go down towards the sea; you will then find the autodrome on your left, almost free of access if you politely ask one of the three or four families who live there for the right to explore it on foot...
And if the 30s are not your thing but you are quite nostalgic for the 2-stroke era, and therefore the Derbi in Spain, we suggest a little tour about 5 kilometers from the Barcelona – Catalunya circuit, where theDerbi factory, now silent, Martorelles, will nevertheless revive the memory of the crackling of the 125 RSA designed by Jan Thiel et Frits Overmars, and with which, not to mentionAngel Nieto and a multitude of other pilots, Johann zarco will have made us vibrate not so long ago...
