France, Côte d'Azur
Col de Turini
Distance
62 km
Time
1h 50m
Driving score
9.7
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Why drive it
Thirty four hairpins from Sospel, a plateau of pine at the top, then a descent that tightens and darkens through the Gorges de la Vésubie. Rally history sits on this road heavily, and it earns it.
Bring something light. Big power is wasted between the corners, and the surface rewards a car you can place accurately. Go up early, have coffee at the col, come down before the road fills.
- Difficulty
- Challenging
- Road width
- Narrow two lanes, unprotected drops on the descent
- Surface
- Good on the climb, broken in the upper hairpins after winter
- Best direction
- Sospel to La Bollène-Vésubie
- Best time of day
- Early morning, before the motorcycles
- Best season
- April to October
- Elevation
- 1,607 m at the col
- Community rating
- 4.9 / 5
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The numbers
The journey
Route highlights
Start
Sospel
Fuel here, nothing reliable higher up
Mountain Pass
Lower Hairpins
Stacked and shaded, second gear work
Viewpoint
Turini Plateau
Pine forest opening to the Alps
Coffee
Col de Turini
Rally photographs on every wall
Photo Spot
Gorges de la Vésubie
Rock tunnels and river below
Finish
La Bollène-Vésubie
Quiet square, late lunch
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