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Click here to launch our exlcusive slide show of Europe's great lost racing circuits.

The cars were rough brutes and the tracks were monsters when motor racing was in its infancy.

The infamous Nürburgring was just the beginning. The daunting Marykring in the former Czechoslovakia was its eastern equal.

At Monza in Italy, the circuit owners built a huge oval to mimic those seen in the United States - with a death toll to match.

Many of these former theatres of the great have fallen into disrepair and disuse. Or, as in the case of Keimola in Finland, burned to the ground.

These images come from S.S. Collins fabulous book "Autodrome", available from Veloce Publishing.

Click here to launch our exlcusive slide show of Europe's great lost racing circuits.

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