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Villard-de-Lans 1968

Piste de luge de Villard-de-Lans

Villard-de-Lans, Isère · France

Used into the late 1980s; its lower section is a summer luge run.

No mapped line survives for this track yet.

Real track · Published figures

First raced
1967
Length
1,000 m
Drop
110 m

Racing continued into the late 1980s; the site was abandoned in 1994. Curve counts vary: 14, 18, or five curves, six bends and a labyrinth.

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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
992m
Drop
110m
Curves
14
Top speed
141km/h
Peak load
3.6g
Reference run
0:36.17
Curve-by-curve guide · 14 curves

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

  1. 1 21° left 1.1 g · 61 km/h
  2. 2 28° right 1.3 g · 80 km/h
  3. 3 29° left 1.5 g · 94 km/h
  4. 4 29° right 1.7 g · 98 km/h
  5. 5 29° left 1.9 g · 110 km/h
  6. 6 29° right 2.1 g · 113 km/h
  7. 7 29° left 2.4 g · 120 km/h
  8. 8 29° right 2.4 g · 120 km/h
  9. 9 29° left 2.6 g · 129 km/h
  10. 10 29° right 3.0 g · 136 km/h
  11. 11 29° left 3.6 g · 141 km/h
  12. 12 29° right 3.4 g · 138 km/h
  13. 13 29° left 3.2 g · 135 km/h
  14. 14 29° right 3.0 g · 133 km/h

The story

This concrete luge track in the Vercors was built for the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics. Building it took about 1,800 cubic metres of concrete and 1,400 of earth, and 132 sodium lamps lit the course. It remained in use into the late 1980s. The lower section later became a summer luge run, giving part of the Olympic course a new use.

  • 132 sodium lamps lit the course.
  • All three Olympic luge events of 1968 were decided here.

Today

The track still exists but is unused, apart from a small summer toboggan run on its lower section.

See the place on OpenStreetMap

Racing history

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

Olympic Games

Men's luge 1968
Women's luge 1968
Doubles luge 1968