Closed circuits

WHILE Shelsley Walsh has been a fixture on the UK motorsport scene since 1905, other venues didn’t prove so enduring. Here we look at four race tracks whose glory days are now distant memories.

Aintree (1954-present)

THE Merseyside venue is, of course, more commonly associated with horses rather than horsepower, because it’s been the home of the Grand National since 1874. But