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2 unusual facts about Test Track


Kingdom Keepers III: Disney in Shadow

There, they find that they aren’t the only ones who have free rein in the park—it’s being constantly patrolled by worker bee Overtakers such as the snake from Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and the car dummies from Test Track, throwing a wrench into the D.H.I.s’ already-complicated mission.

Test Track

The host, Bill McKim (John Michael Higgins) told the guests that they would take part in some of these tests and also told the technician Sherrie what tests to set up.


Old Dalby

Old Dalby is the location of the control centre of the former British Rail Research Division's railway test track, which runs between Melton Mowbray and Edwalton and which was universally known in the industry as simply 'Old Dalby'.


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Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari

In 2010, Jeremy Clarkson filmed his DVD, The Italian Job, at the Imola circuit as well as Lydden Hill Race Circuit in England and the Fiorano Circuit, Ferrari's test track.

EP20

EP20-001 began testing at VELNII's test track at Novocherkassk in April 2011 and later at the Shcherbinka test track.

Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano

Ferrari released a video featuring Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa driving the car at Ferrari's own test track, the Pista di Fiorano.

Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli

The player drives two laps around the Fiorano Circuit (Ferrari's real test track) with the Ferrari F430 Challenge Car with professional race driver Tiff Needell talking and walking through the steps of how to get the most speed out of the F430.

Hour record

Sam Whittingham went 79.13 km (49.17 mi) in 1998, then broke his own record in 2004 when he cycled 84.22 km (52.33 mi) on the GM/Opel test track in Dudenhofen, Germany.

Lotus 100T

During the 1988 season, former three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart test drove the 100T at the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, England, which was Lotus's test track at the time.

Lotus 78

Andretti worked hard with the car, testing for many thousands of miles at the Lotus test track in Hethel.

Mariahout

Mariahout is home to a military storage complex as well as a test track for DAF Trucks.

Mike Borkowski

In 1992, Borkowski had a unique opportunity to co-pilot the Oldsmobile Aerotech in a grueling test of endurance and speed at the Firestone Test Track in Fort Stockton, Texas, setting multiple FIA World Speed Records in the process.

Mount Meridian, Indiana

Mainly used as a test track, it holds races, practices and special events for all types of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, Porsche, Dodge Viper, and professional race car drivers of all types and levels.

Old Dalby

On 7 June 2007, Metronet announced that the contract for operating and maintaining the test track had been awarded to Serco Assurance (formerly Serco Railtest), based at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby.

Following privatisation of the UK railways, the test track was taken over by Alstom and electrified on the 25kV overhead system in order to test the Virgin Trains tilting Pendolino fleet.

Osmaston, Derby

The Nightingale Road, Main Works site opened in 1908 to manufacture the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and at the rear of the site a test track called "Miniature Brooklands" was used to prove the cars.

Renault Avantime

In 2008, the Avantime was featured on the British motoring show Top Gear, where the presenters modified the performance of a used Avantime, attempting to lap the test track faster than an Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X.

SAFEGE

The test track built in France by SAFEGE in 1959, is a 1.4 kilometre monorail line featured prominently in the 1966 movie adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut.

Stephenson Railway Museum

It is on the site of the former Tyne and Wear Metro test track, which was originally the line to the staithes on the Backworth Colliery system.

William Benson Mayo

In 1926 he became head of Ford's Aircraft Division, which developed and built the Ford Trimotor; he was also responsible for the construction of Ford's pioneering private airport (now the location of a Ford test track) and the first airport hotel (now the Dearborn Inn).