Fiat Factory Test Track On Roof

This old factory has a famous test track with high banked corners on the roof of the buil.

Fiat factory test track on roof. Two 443 metres straights joined by parabolic bends form a continuous track for testing the cars. Turin italy now an entertainment complex the lingotto building was once an avant garde auto factory with a test track on the roof. From street level this huge arcade of shops concert halls and. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923.

Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923. However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering. View of fiat lingotto factory with test track on the roof in 1928 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. One side of the fiat race track on the roof has been filled with tar presumably to prevent leakage through the ceiling.

Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. However the other side still displays the original bricks used to form the rooftop test track. The rooftop racetrack of fiat s lingotto factory. The lingotto building in turin italy is a massive half kilometer long reinforced concrete structure five stories tall that once housed the largest and most modern car manufacturing plant in europe.

The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the.