Pista di Nardò
The Pista di Nardò , also descriptively called Pista circolare or circuito di Nardò or Engl. Nardò Technical Center , is a circular test track near Nardò in Italy with other car test tracks and workshops. 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 to help the Mezzogiorno , the economically weak south of Italy. It is circular because it was initially planned as the basis of a particle accelerator , with a diameter of 4 km, a route length of 12.6 km and is considered the fastest automobile circuit in the world even before the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana (California) .
The route is a high-speed railway with raised curves , the curve of which (similar to the AVUS -Bahn in Berlin) allows speeds of up to 240 km / h to be driven with no lateral force . Low speeds are driven “inside, down” where the curves are still quite “flat”; For higher speeds, the drivers “climb” further up in the bowl-shaped, raised bends, where the inward incline is greater. It is possible to drive speeds higher than 240 km / h. However, this leads to lateral forces on the wheels and, as a result, often to tire problems. Speeds of up to 500 km / h are possible.
Maximum speed without side force on the individual lanes:
- Track 1 - 100 km / h
- Track 2 - 140 km / h
- Track 3 - 190 km / h
- Track 4 - 240 km / h
Hundreds of records have been set on the Nardò Railway over the decades. Noteworthy are the speed record for street-legal series vehicles of the Koenigsegg CCR with 387.87 km / h (February 28, 2005) and a record for electric cars by the Keio University Eliica with 370 km / h.
In March 2008, a 6.2 km long handling course was opened as an additional test track inside the oval.
In May 2012, the Porsche subsidiary Porsche Engineering took over the operation of the test track from the previous owner Prototipo SpA.
The Johanniter accident assistance e. V. from Stuttgart (Regionalverband Stuttgart) takes on the company medicine there for Porsche and, especially in the event of accidents on the test site, the first aid with its own ambulance . This provides specially experienced paramedics and paramedics for these tasks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Busse: 40 Years of Nardo: From Particle Accelerator to Tempodrom . In Auto-Medienportal.Net, September 16, 2015, reprint
- ↑ Auto Motor und Sport: "New high-speed test site for Porsche" April 11, 2012, accessed April 13, 2012
- ↑ Archived copy from porscheengineering.com/nardo/de/privacy ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 40 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 17 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E