Nardò Ring

The Pista di Nardo test track in Nardo is in Italy. It is located in the Apulia region about 20 km northwest of the city.

The test track was built in the 1970s with public funding in order to engage the Mezzogiorno, the economically weak southern Italy under the arms. It is circular, with a diameter of 4 km, a length of 12.6 km and still applies the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana (California ) as the fastest automobile circular course in the world.

The track is a high-speed rail with banked curves, the superelevation (similar to the AVUS track in Berlin) allows speeds up to 240 km / h drive in lateral force freedom. Low speeds are " inside, down " driven, where the curves are still quite "flat"; for higher speeds " climb " the driver in the bowl-shaped curves increased further up where the curve slope is greater inward. It is possible to use higher speeds above 240 km / hr. However, this leads to lateral forces on the wheels, and subsequently to the tire often problems. Speeds up to 500 km / h possible.

Maximum speed with no side force on the individual tracks:

• Lane 1 - 100 km / h
• Track 2 - 140 km / h
• Track 3 - 190 km / h
• Lane 4 - 240 km / h

On the Nardo track the decades hundreds of records were placed in the barrel. Noteworthy here are the speed record for street-legal production cars Koenigsegg CCR with 387.87 km / h (28 February 2005) and a record for electric cars by the Keio University Eliica 370 km / h

In March 2008, was opened as an additional test track in the interior of the oval a 6.2 km long handling course.

In May 2012, the Porsche company subsidiary Porsche Engineering took over the test track from the previous owner Prototipo SpA.

The St. John 's Ambulance Association from Stuttgart ( Stuttgart Regional Association ) takes over for Porsche the local plant medicine and especially in case of accidents at the test site first aid treatment by their own ambulance. This provides an extra experienced paramedics and paramedic for these tasks.