Located about 20 kilometers north of Helsinki, surrounded by thirty years growth of trees and bushes, is a motor stadium that saw its glory days in the end of the sixties and beginning of seventies. It hosted many Formula two races, with legends like Graham Hill, Jack Brabham and Jochen Rindt.
The stadium was abandoned in 1978, and no new development has taken place in the area. The track profile can still clearly be seen in satellite pictures: Google Maps satellite view of Keimola.
Visiting the place gives a cheap World without experience. No amount of asphalt and concrete is enough to keep nature from reconquering the area.
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- The control tower in Keimola has lost its surfacing
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- The advertisment for Texaco motor oil is still faintly visible
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- The entrance is blocked, but some visitors climb a home-made ladder behind the tower
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- On the other side of the tower, the Texaco ad is more visible
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- The main straight slowly taken over by nature
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- Not a racetrack era wreck, a burned out car fits the surroundings
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