Germany, Rheinmünster
Driving Center Baden
A 1.8 km circuit in Rheinmünster. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Driving Center Baden?
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 Driving Center Baden?
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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Driving Center Baden 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 Großer Handlingskurs 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 Driving Center Baden
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: 9°C by day, 3°C at night, rain on 13 days. Warmest in July, 28°C by day on average. Coldest in January, −1°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
Driving Center Baden elevation
Elevation change 4 m. That is within the margin of the terrain model, so Driving Center Baden counts as flat and there is no profile to draw.
From a terrain model, sampled every 10 m along the track line and smoothed over 100 m. 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 Driving Center Baden?
More to do with the session than the lap time
About Driving Center Baden
Overview
The Driving Center Baden is a driving-safety and vehicle-testing centre at the Baden Airpark in Rheinmünster, close to Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport. It is run by Fahrsicherheitszentrum Baden Airpark GmbH & Co. KG. The centre describes itself as a testing and event venue: it hosts driver training for private and company customers, vehicle tests, film shoots, incentives, meetings and customer events. Private drivers can book exclusive hourly slots of free driving on the small or the large course, and training courses run from a starter course to sports-driving training. The site is not a racing venue. Its usage rules forbid races, race training, record attempts and timed runs, and only road-legal vehicles may use it.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The site covers about 100,000 square metres. Its centrepiece is a handling circuit designed mainly by Hermann Tilke, 2.7 kilometres long in its full form, up to 12 metres wide and with five left-hand and seven right-hand corners of different radii. Individual track elements divide it into shorter handling courses of any length from 0.5 to 2.7 kilometres; the published variants are 0.7, 0.9 and 1.8 kilometres, and several trainings can run at once. Different asphalt zones, grippy and slippery surfaces and floodable sections reproduce real road conditions. At most 15 cars and three instructor vehicles, or 25 motorcycles and five instructors, may be on the circuit at the same time. Drive-by noise at full load is limited to 98 dB(A).
Facilities and Specialized Areas
A double full circle, which the centre calls almost unique in Germany, combines a watered inner circle 55 metres across with a dry outer circle of 70 metres. Dynamics areas up to 150 metres long and 27.5 metres wide have a special surface that is only driven wet. Braking-measurement strips complete the test site, and international carmakers use it to test prototypes before new models are launched. Car courses include emergency braking on different surfaces, evasive manoeuvres on grippy and slippery ground, braking in a corner and handling understeer and oversteer, with up to 44 participants in four groups. The event hangar, a former aircraft hangar with a large glass façade and a terrace, offers 500 square metres for events of 70 to 450 guests, and a 600-square-metre storage hall is also available.
History
The centre lies within the Baden Airpark, the business park and regional airport developed on the former Canadian Forces Base Baden-Soellingen, which was used from 1953 until its closure in 1994. Commercial flights at the airport began in 2001, and the Driving Center Baden opened in 2006. Its event hangar is a converted former aircraft hangar. For its 20th anniversary it held an open day, the Tag der offenen Räder, with taxi rides in Audi R8s with the centre's instructors, part of the test track opened to cyclists and skaters, kart sport by the Automobilclub Baden-Baden on the dynamics area and an open day at the neighbouring Baden Airpark aircraft museum.
Address
Victoria Boulevard E100
77836 Rheinmünster
Germany
Contact
drivingcenter-baden.de
