Bernauer Loop

Bernauer Loop

Address: Schwanebeck A10 / A11 motorway triangle
Bernau near Berlin , Brandenburg
Route type:	temporary racetrack, counterclockwise
Opening:	1930
Decommissioned:	1973
Track layout
Route data
Route length:	5.851  km (3.64  mi )

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 50 ″  N , 13 ° 33 ′ 30 ″  E

From the 1930s to 1973 the Bernau Loop was a race track near Bernau north of Berlin . The route length was originally 5.851 km. After a break in 1955/56, the races were shortened from 1957 onwards no longer using the old exit and access arms of the Lindenberg junction at that time (the northern part of which with a gas station no longer exists).

International car and motorcycle races with and without sidecars took place there. Classes were u. a. Formula Junior (later Formula 3 ) for racing cars, A, B, C for motorcycles and various cubic capacity classes of sidecar motorcycles (also known as sidecar or three-wheeled vehicles). The racetrack was provided with a steep curve at the entrance to Autobahn 11, which was torn down in the 1990s when the junction was redesigned for traffic engineering.

From 1935 to 1973, the Bernau Loop was part of the Stettin triangle or the Penkun junction at the junction of the Berlin-Stettin motorway, later Berlin-Penkun, today's A11 from the Berliner Ring. Driving the route as a circular route has not been possible since 1973.

• Car and motorcycle races on the Bernau Loop on May 20, 1962
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Web links

Commons : Bernauer Loop  - Collection of Images

• Benedikt Eckelt: The Bernau Loop ; Compilation of newspaper reports from the years 1952–1963

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernauer Loop, motorway course - GER - RS ; List of races 1952–1973 in the Jordan Motor Racing Archives.