Turkey, Tuzla
Istanbul Park Intermediate
A 3.925 km circuit in Tuzla. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Istanbul Park?
See which corner costs you the most time.
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Driving with friends?
Find out who is faster, and in which corner.
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Track layouts
Lap times only compare within one layout.
Going to Istanbul Park?
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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Istanbul Park 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 Istanbul Park Intermediate yet.
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Track day guide
Track day at Istanbul Park
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: 16°C by day, 11°C at night, rain on 10 days. Warmest in August, 29°C by day on average. Coldest in January, 4°C at night. Fewest days with rain: August.
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
Istanbul Park elevation
Elevation change 35 m, steepest gradient 7.8%. The highest point, about 148 m above sea level, is 1.00 km from the start line; the lowest, about 114 m, 2.36 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.
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About Istanbul Park
The Istanbul Park Intermediate configuration is one of 2 layouts available at Istanbul Park - 3.925 km across 12 corners. Lap times and sessions on this layout are tracked separately from other configurations.
Overview
Istanbul Park is a permanent motor racing circuit in the Tuzla district on the Asian side of Istanbul, near the boundary with Pendik and not far from Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, in an area of forest and fields reached from the Ankara motorway. The land belongs to the Directorate General of Foundations (Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü), and several operators have run the venue since it opened. In June 2025 operation passed to TOSFED, the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation, under the name TOSFED İstanbul Park. The circuit is best known for the Turkish Grand Prix in Formula One, and it also has a rallycross course that has held rounds of the FIA World Rallycross Championship.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
Hermann Tilke designed the circuit, which occupies about 2.2 million square metres and runs across four different ground levels. The Grand Prix layout is 5.338 km long with 14 turns, eight left-handers and six right-handers. The track is 14 to 21.5 m wide and the tightest corner has a radius of 15 m. An intermediate configuration of 3.925 km uses part of the same track, and a separate rallycross course was laid out in 2014 around the last three corners. Turn 1 is a sharp downhill left-hander after the start-finish straight that has been called the Turkish Corkscrew. The longest straight measures about 720 m. Turn 8 is a fast, sweeping corner with four apexes; it puts heavy load on tyres and drivers alike, with forces of up to 6g, and similar multi-apex corners later appeared at other Tilke circuits. The official race lap record is 1:24.770, set by Juan Pablo Montoya in a McLaren MP4-20 at the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix, and Lewis Hamilton went faster still, 1:22.868, in qualifying for the 2021 race.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
Spectator capacity is about 125,000. The main grandstand holds 25,000, and temporary and natural grandstands provide the rest. The two-storey paddock buildings put the team garages on the ground floor and hospitality seating for 5,000 on the upper level, with a seven-storey VIP tower, 37 m high, at each end. Parking is provided for about 12,000 vehicles.
History
The project was first named İstanbul Speed Park. Construction began on 23 September 2003, despite objections from eleven professional bodies, including the Istanbul branches of the chambers of architects and city planners, over the Ömerli Dam water catchment and forest law. The circuit opened on 19-21 August 2005, and that year it held the first Turkish Grand Prix as well as rounds of MotoGP, DTM and FIA GT. Formula One raced there every year until 2011 and returned in 2020 and 2021; Felipe Massa won three times in a row from 2006 to 2008. MotoGP visited until 2007, and the circuit also staged the WTCC, the Le Mans Series, GP2, the European Truck Racing Championship in 2012 and World Superbike in 2013. The first operator, FİYAŞ, handed over to Bernie Ecclestone in 2007, and Intercity ran the track from 2012 to 2024 under the name Intercity İstanbul Park. A 30-year lease awarded in April 2024 was cancelled by an administrative court that December, which led to the transfer to TOSFED.
