India, Chennai
Madras International Circuit
A 3.7 km circuit in Chennai. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Madras International Circuit?
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.
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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.
Track layouts
Lap times only compare within one layout.
Going to Madras International Circuit?
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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Madras International Circuit 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 Madras Full Circuit 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 Madras International Circuit
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: 29°C by day, 24°C at night, rain on 19 days. Warmest in April, 37°C by day on average. Coldest in January, 21°C at night. Fewest days with rain: February to March.
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
Madras International Circuit elevation
Elevation change 3 m. That is within the margin of the terrain model, so Madras International Circuit 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.
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More to do with the session than the lap time
About Madras International Circuit
Overview
The Madras International Circuit lies at Irungattukottai, near Sriperumbudur, west of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. It is reached along the Chennai to Bangalore highway and faces the Hyundai India car factory across the road; Chennai International Airport is about 45 minutes away by car. Owned and run by the Madras Motor Sports Club, it opened in 1990 as India's first permanent racing circuit. It was known as the Madras Motor Race Track, and also as the Irungattukottai Race Track, until it took its present name in July 2022. The circuit hosts rounds of the national car and motorcycle racing championships and of the national motorcycle drag racing championship, together with single-seater series such as MRF Formula 2000 and Formula LGB 1300, the Indian Touring Car National Championship, the Indian Racing League and the F4 Indian Championship.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The FIA helped with the design, and the layout was drawn up in Paris. The full circuit measures 3.717 km with 12 turns and three straights, the longest of them 250 m. A club circuit of 2.067 km with 7 turns can be run on its own. Both average 11 m in width, widening to 12 m at the start line. The track is certified by both the FIA and the FIM, received an FIA Grade 2 licence in 2014, and is cleared for motorcycles of every class and for cars up to Formula 3. The surface was relaid in 2007 and again in 2017.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
The venue was built on a plot of about 200 acres that the club bought outside the city. A paddock complex on the eastern side of the pit lane opened in early 2018 after about a year of work costing more than 20 crore rupees. It has 20 pit garages, a viewing terrace for spectators along the pit lane and VIP hospitality suites for up to 400 guests. The Madras International Karting Arena, a kart track approved by the CIK, was built on the site in 2023 and inaugurated on 19 September 2024 by Mika Häkkinen, with Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok present.
History
Before the circuit existed, racing around Chennai took place on temporary courses, often on disused airfields such as Sholavaram, where up to 50,000 people watched from grandstands lashed together from bamboo. The Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India was formed in 1971 with its headquarters in the city. The Madras Motor Sports Club later bought land for a permanent venue, and Margaret Alva, then the minister responsible for sport, laid the foundation stone on 3 June 1988. Building took two years. In the 1990s the Madras Grand Prix for Formula 3 became a pre-season meeting that drew drivers from Europe alongside local talent, among them Narain Karthikeyan, later British Formula 3 champion, and in 1996 Martin O'Connell lapped the full course in 1:34.124 in a Dallara Formula 3 car. International series have included the Asia Road Racing Championship in several seasons from 1997 to 2018, the Asian Formula Three Championship in 2008 and the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship in 2018 and 2019, while the MRF Challenge held an annual round until 2020, when it stopped because of COVID-19.
Address
Irungattukottai
602105 Chennai
India
Contact
madrasmotorsports.com
