Sweden, Skellefteå
Drivecenter Arena
A 4.2 km circuit in Skellefteå. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Drivecenter Arena?
See which corner costs you the most time.
Record the session on your phone. Vetkuro splits the laps, times every sector and shows where the gap to your best lap opens.
Filming your laps?
Put speed, delta and lap time on your onboard video.
Overlay the data from the same session on the footage, synced automatically. One file to watch back, or to share.
Driving with friends?
Find out who is faster, and in which corner.
Overlay two laps from the same day and see exactly where the gap opens, not only the final number.
Going to Drivecenter Arena?
See which corner costs you the most time.
Record the session on your phone. Vetkuro splits the laps, times every sector and shows where the gap to your best lap opens.
Filming your laps?
Put speed, delta and lap time on your onboard video.
Overlay the data from the same session on the footage, synced automatically. One file to watch back, or to share.
Driving with friends?
Find out who is faster, and in which corner.
Overlay two laps from the same day and see exactly where the gap opens, not only the final number.
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Drivecenter Arena lap times
Timed from GPS on real track days, not typed in. Compare within one layout and one vehicle class, because a motorcycle lap and a car lap are not the same thing.
No recorded laps on Drivecenter Arena yet.
Record a session on this layout and your lap becomes the time other drivers in your class compare against.
Track day guide
Track day at Drivecenter Arena
Weather by month, who runs the days and what to put in the car. Written for a first visit.
Who runs track days here
What to bring
- Helmet that meets the organiser's standard
- Long sleeves, long trousers, closed shoes
- Tyre pressure gauge, since pressures rise fast on track
- Removable towing eye fitted or in the car
- An empty boot: loose items out before the first session
- Your phone in a rigid mount, recording with Vetkuro
Weather by month
Now, in November: −2°C by day, −6°C at night, rain on 12 days. Warmest in July, 20°C by day on average. Coldest in January, −13°C at night. Fewest days with rain: February.
Rain: days with rain per month. Climate: NASA POWER, daily data 2016–2025. Monthly averages, not a forecast. Check the organiser's calendar for open dates. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division.
Elevation profile
Drivecenter Arena elevation
Elevation change 9 m, steepest gradient 1.8%. The highest point, about 198 m above sea level, is 3.70 km from the start line; the lowest, about 189 m, 2.41 km.
Height above sea level, approximate. HoverTouch the profile for any point.
From a terrain model, sampled every 10 m along the track line and smoothed over 100 m. Heights above sea level are approximate: trees and buildings along the line read up to about 15 m high. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30.
Going to Drivecenter Arena?
More to do with the session than the lap time
About Drivecenter Arena
Overview
Skellefteå Drive Center, later renamed Drivecenter Arena, is a motor racing circuit and vehicle testing centre at Fällfors in Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten, in northern Sweden. It occupies the former Fällfors air base, about 55 minutes' drive north of Skellefteå town, and it is one of the northernmost racing circuits in the world; only Mo i Rana in Norway lies slightly further north. The circuit opened in June 2019 and was presented as the longest race track in Sweden. Besides race meetings, the site is used for testing commercial vehicles, driver training and track days for cars and motorcycles.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The full circuit measures about 4.2 km; Wikipedia gives it as 4.235 km, some 210 m longer than Anderstorp. It was designed by TTI GmbH, the company headed by former Formula One driver Alexander Wurz, and cost around SEK 45 million. The track was built from the runways and side roads of the old base, so long, wide straights that make overtaking possible alternate with narrower sections on the original roads, demanding corners and mild changes of elevation. The air base's main runway, two kilometres long and 35 m wide, is part of the site, and the old runways have occasionally hosted drag racing. A shorter circuit is also used for some races. In 2023 Hampus Ericsson set a race lap of 1:45.570 on the full circuit in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
The circuit has 24 pit garages and grandstands that seat 5,000, and a control tower stands on a hillside above the complex. The wider site includes a restaurant and conference centre, accommodation and a rifle range, and roughly 50 km of gravel roads run around the former base. Cut into the rock is the base's aircraft tunnel, a horseshoe-shaped hangar about 150 m long, 20 m wide and 5 m high with space for ten combat aircraft; after people repeatedly entered it despite the ban, the area around it was fenced off.
History
Fällfors air base was built in 1955-1956 and opened in 1956 as part of Sweden's Cold War defences. The rock tunnel was ordered in 1978 and completed in 1980-1981, and in 1982 Fällfors became the first Swedish base to be equipped with the Bas 90 system. After the 2004 defence decision the base was withdrawn from service, with a closing ceremony on 27 June 2006, and in September 2007 the whole area was sold to Skellefteå Municipality. Skellefteå Drive Center started there in 2008 as a driver training and vehicle testing business. Plans for a real racing circuit were announced in 2016; after the founder Bengt Astergren died early in 2017, the local mining entrepreneur and rallycross team owner Jan Marklund took the project over, and the base was converted in 2018-2019. The opening meeting on 14-15 June 2019 revived the name Midnattssolsloppet, first used in the mid-1960s for races on a temporary course at Skellefteå airport in which Ronnie Peterson took part. TCR Scandinavia, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, GT4 Scandinavia and Formula Nordic raced in front of about 17,000 spectators. The STCC visited from 2019 to 2022, and Drift Masters held rounds here in 2022 and 2023.
Address
Svedjan
931 91 Skellefteå
Sweden
Contact
drivecenter.se
