Latvia, Kandava
Kandavas kartodroms
A 1.012 km circuit in Kandava. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Kandavas kartodroms?
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 Kandavas kartodroms?
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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Kandavas kartodroms 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 Main Track 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 Kandavas kartodroms
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: 5°C by day, 1°C at night, rain on 13 days. Warmest in July, 22°C by day on average. Coldest in January, −4°C at night. Fewest days with rain: May.
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
Kandavas kartodroms elevation
Elevation change 7 m, steepest gradient 5.7%. The highest point, about 48 m above sea level, is 0.81 km from the start line; the lowest, about 41 m, 0.25 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 Kandavas kartodroms?
More to do with the session than the lap time
About Kandavas kartodroms
Overview
Kandavas kartodroms is a kart circuit at Jelgavas iela 16 in Kandava, a small town in the Tukums area of western Latvia. The site covers 4.45 hectares, and the track hosts rounds of the Latvian championship and the Rotax Max Challenge, the Baltic Karting Cup and the Rotax Nordic Challenge. Alongside competition, the track runs rental karts, two-seater karts, practice sessions for licensed kart drivers, corporate events and private races between friends. It is open in the summer season and closed in winter.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The circuit measures 1,012 metres, is eight metres wide and has 11 turns. Its longest straight is 154 metres, and the lap includes gradients of up to 5.52 percent, while the steepest camber in a corner reaches 10 percent. The layout was drawn by Hermann Tilke, the architect behind many Formula 1 circuits, and it winds through a series of hairpins and linked bends on the western side of the site before a faster section runs back alongside the paddock. A timing system records every lap to a thousandth of a second, prints results for practice, qualifying and races, and shows live times on a board that both drivers and spectators can see.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
The rental fleet includes adult karts for ten-minute sessions and Sodikart 2Drive two-seaters, and licensed drivers can book practice time on the same track. Gift cards are available. For racing, the venue provides a secretariat for registration and technical checks. The season also includes a four-hour endurance race in October. That race is run by the Motorsport 77 association with the karting commission of the Latvian Automobile Federation, for DD2 and Senior karts driven by teams of two or three, with MyLaps timing and at least nine driver changes.
History
Kandava has hosted karting since 1972, when the first track was built on this site, and its asphalt-concrete surface was renewed in 1987. In Soviet times the circuit served as the base for the Latvian and USSR national karting teams. The present venue is the product of a full reconstruction: the layout was redesigned from scratch and the entire surface and its foundation were replaced. Named the Swedbank kartodroms, it opened on 5 June 2008 in the presence of its architect, Hermann Tilke, and its operators described it as the newest and most modern karting track in Latvia and the Baltic states. Since then it has staged Latvian and Baltic championship rounds and international events such as the Rotax Nordic Challenge.
Address
Jelgavas iela 16
LV-3120 Kandava
Latvia
Contact
kartodroms.lv
