Race Track On Roof Of Fiat Factory

That entire lingotto test track scene can be viewed in the video from the movie below.

Race track on roof of fiat factory.

A vespa racing event on the roof of lingotto s fiat factory organized by red bull in 2011. When a fiat had finished its climb through the 16 000 000 square feet of lingotto it exited the building by way of the roof. The fiat factory in turin that has a test track on the roof this is the old fiat factory test track on top of a building in turin italy wikimedia commons 13 june 2019 tom beck. The building has been modernized to fit today s architectural design standards.

Each fiat was taken on to the roof and around the banked race track to. Now an entertainment complex the lingotto building was once an avant garde auto factory with a test track on the roof. The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the. Built between 1916 and 1923 the building was the brainchild of italian engineer giacomo mattè trucco and was one of the first buildings of its size to rely heavily on reinforced concrete.

Spiral roadway to move cars up to a higher level of the former fiat lingotto factory in turin. Lingotto is a district of turin italy and the location of the lingotto building on the via nizza. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factory that opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. Two 443 metres straights joined by parabolic bends form a continuous track for testing the cars.

The factory s best known symbol is the test track which is a superb piece of design modelling and construction that occupies the whole roof surface of the workshops. However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering.