{{unreferenced, date=January 2014 Layout of Carthage street circuit used in Tunis Grand Prix (1931-1937)

The Carthage Street Circuit was a

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used in the

Tunis Grand Prix The Tunis Grand Prix or ''Grand Prix de Tunis'' was a auto racing, motor race held in the 1920s and 30s in Tunis, the capital of the African colony of the French protectorate of Tunisia. A race was held originally as an open-wheel motor race on a ...

between

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

and

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

History

The Tunis Grand Prix was originally held on a street circuit at

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, west of Tunis. After two Grands Prix, a much larger triangular highway circuit was used. It was laid out between the then separate cities of Tunis and

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. After 1937, the Tunis Grand Prix was not held until 1955, in Parc du Belvedere as ''Circuito du Belvedere'', which was also used during historic revival events between 2000 and 2008.

Course layout

The main straight (2,25 km) is now located on the N9 from the populated area Ain Zaghouan to the border with the populated place Les Berges du Lac. From there the course follows a second straight (2,32 km) through

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, just east of La Charguia airport. The most northern point of the course is located in

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, from where it follows the N10 south down to

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, where a hairpin and a slow chicane leads back to the main straight. The total length of the circuit is 12,9 km. Start of the 1932 Tunis Grand Prix

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