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Gone From 1951

Alpe d'Huez 1951

Alpe d'Huez bob run (1951)

Alpe d'Huez, Isère · France

Long abandoned; the resort has a mountain-bike trail called La Piste de Bob.

No mapped line survives for this track yet.

Real track · Published figures

First raced
1951
Drop
140 m
Curves
6

The course fell from about 1,990 m to 1,850 m above sea level; its length is not known. The bike trail’s alignment with the 1951 course has not been established.

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The Slidensa model, drawn over the real ground. Follow the run into every curve.

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Game model · Two-man bobsleigh reference run. These lengths, speeds and loads come from Slidensa’s physics and can differ from the real track’s published figures.

Length
1,687m
Drop
140m
Curves
6
Top speed
149km/h
Peak load
1.7g
Reference run
1:00.03
Curve-by-curve guide · 6 curves

The three curves in lime pull hardest in the reference run.

  1. 1 16° right Kink 1.0 g · 63 km/h
  2. 2 32° left 1.1 g · 100 km/h
  3. 3 40° right 1.2 g · 121 km/h
  4. 4 42° left 1.3 g · 126 km/h
  5. 5 42° right 1.7 g · 147 km/h
  6. 6 40° left 1.6 g · 148 km/h

The story

Alpe d'Huez built this six-curve run for the 1951 World Championships. It dropped 140 m, from about 1,990 m to 1,850 m above sea level. Because it faced due south, good ice was hard to hold. Once the resort's 1968 Olympic track replaced it, the old run fell out of use and was taken apart bit by bit as the resort grew.

  • The 1951 four-man title went to a West German crew driven by Andreas Ostler.
  • These were the first World Championships after the war to include German crews.

Today

La Piste de Bob is a mountain-bike trail in the resort.

Racing history

Earliest and latest recorded race of each event at this level, from published results.

World Championships

Two-man bob 1951
Four-man bob 1951