ATRON International Circuit

Overview

ATRON International Circuit is a multi-discipline motorsport complex at Sekiotovo near Ryazan, about fifteen minutes from the city centre by the Mikhailovskoye road where it leaves the M5 towards Tula. It occupies a site of about 20 hectares and combines a long karting circuit with drift, rallycross and autocross tracks, a hotel and a restaurant. Between major events it works as a karting centre with rental karts, and it also runs open sessions for road cars and drift days. The circuit has hosted rounds of the Russian Karting Championship, the RDS Open drift championship, the Russian Supermoto championship and the Russian rallycross championship.

Technical Specifications and Track Features

The asphalt karting circuit measures 1,400 metres with an average width of about 9 metres, and the operator describes it as the longest open karting track in Russia. Its designer, the Moscow Circuit Design Group RaceTracks, lists it as a category A karting track with 16 corners and a width of 8 to 10 metres. The same project added rallycross and autocross tracks, the rallycross course being 57 per cent asphalt, and a version of the circuit for car racing and rally sprints up to 14.5 metres wide. The drift course, laid out to the requirements of the Russian Drift Series, is about 550 metres long and up to 20 metres wide. Its concrete barrier is known among drivers as the magnet wall. The surfaces combine asphalt, concrete, dirt, sand and gravel, so the venue can be rearranged for circuit, drift, rallycross or karting use. LED floodlights cover the whole track and allow night running, and timing is by AMB transponders. Car track days are run in 15-minute sessions with no more than five cars on track at once.

Facilities and Specialized Areas

The paddock side has an administration building with a 200-seat conference hall, a pit lane, 17 car garages and a building for the closed park. The garages measure about five by seven metres and have automatic doors, water, lighting and power. Spectators use a covered main grandstand close to the track, a second grandstand and two earth-bank stands. The complex hotel has 61 rooms with 160 beds, and the restaurant on the second floor seats 200 and looks out over the circuit through panoramic glazing. The rental fleet uses SODI RT8 karts, and sporting karters train on the circuit on scheduled days.

History

The complex opened in the summer of 2015. Its first meeting was the third round of the Russian Drift Series on 19 and 20 June 2015, which drew more than two thousand spectators. The tracks were designed by RaceTracks, which records the project as completed in 2015. Drifting has been a regular feature, with two rounds of RDS Europe in 2024, including the season final, a round of the RDS Open in May 2025 and the opening round of the 2026 RDS Open in April. In 2025 the circuit also hosted ZDT Racing rounds and a round of the Russian Karting Championship with a fan race against Vitaly Petrov. In July 2026 the circuit hosted a further round of the Russian Karting Championship.