Montjuïc Manifesto

In memory of an Important Chapter in Motor Sport History

Sunday, April 27, marked the 50th anniversary of the last Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Montjuïc track, a race that, due to its tragic outcome, meant the last car competition to be held on Barcelona’s famous urban racetrack.

A group of 38 fans, including journalists, drivers and riders who had triumphed at the Barcelona circuit, such as Salvador Cañellas, met at noon on the 27th on what was the starting straight of the circuit to make a complete lap of the track on foot.  In the action, anecdotes and experiences that arose throughout the years of Montjuïc as a circuit were recounted.

At the end of the lap, a manifesto was read proclaiming the memory of the Montjuïc circuit and asking the institutions and entities to take the historic track into account within the reform that is planned on the mountain of Montjuïc to mark the occasion of the centenary of the International Exhibition of 1929.  It asks that some kind of monument,  or museum, visible and visitable, that remembers with dignity what was, together with Monaco, one of the most famous urban car and motorcycle competition tracks in the world.

You can download the “Manifesto of 27 April”, in Spanish here and English here.

You can give your support to the initiative and claims in the Manifesto, by providing your full name and ID card by email to: retro@jas.es