Lingotto: The Last Surviving Factory Rooftop Circuit (Yes, There Were Others)

In 1923, the city of Turin unveiled a huge new car factory, with one very special feature: it had a high-speed circuit on the roof, complete with banked curves, and two 500m-long straights. But why would you put a racetrack on the roof of a factory? I travelled to northern Italy to see it for myself... MORE INFO Official page on the Pinacoteca Agnelli website - https://www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it/en/pista-500/ "Lingotto: Myths, Mechanisation and Automobiles" by John Cook - https://www.academia.edu/14362388/Lingotto_Myths_Mechanisation_and_Automobiles INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ IMAGE CREDITS Historic Lingotto images by Carlo Maggio used under license from Alamy Except for this one, by Dgtmedia - Simone - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_Lingotto_veduta-1928.jpg Giacomo Matté-Trucco - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matt%C3%A9-Trucco.jpg Fiat's original factory on Corso Dante - https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fiat_corso_dante.jpg 1920s theatre by charmainezoe - https://www.flickr.com/photos/charmainezoe/8529360476 Aerial photo of Fiat Mirafiori factory - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stabilimento_Fiat_Mirafiori,_veduta_aerea,_Torino_1942_-_san_dl_SAN_IMG-00001319.jpg