Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod 'B'
A 2.85 km circuit in Nizhny Novgorod. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Nizhny Novgorod?
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 Nizhny Novgorod?
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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Nizhny Novgorod 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 Nizhny Novgorod 'B' 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 Nizhny Novgorod
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: 0°C by day, −5°C at night, rain on 13 days. Warmest in July, 23°C by day on average. Coldest in January, −15°C at night. Fewest days with rain: 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
Nizhny Novgorod elevation
Elevation change 9 m, steepest gradient 2.4%. The highest point, about 111 m above sea level, is 1.97 km from the start line; the lowest, about 102 m, 0.31 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 Nizhny Novgorod
The Nizhny Novgorod 'B' configuration is one of 2 layouts available at Nizhny Novgorod - 2.85 km across 12 corners. Lap times and sessions on this layout are tracked separately from other configurations.
Overview
The Nizhny Novgorod Ring, known as NRing (Nizhegorodskoye Koltso in Russian), is a motorsport complex just west of the town of Bogorodsk in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, roughly 400 km east of Moscow. It stands beside the R125 road, about 10 km from its junction with the M7 Volga highway. It opened in July 2010, and racingcircuits.info calls it one of the busiest circuits in Russia, with racing, testing, driving courses and track days through the year. Its events range from national championship rounds to amateur series, endurance races of 12 and 24 hours, drag racing, drifting and winter ice racing.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The circuit was designed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Andrei Kitov of the Moscow design group Racetracks, to FIA Grade 2 standards from the outset. Its main configuration, A, is 3,222 m long with 15 corners, and configuration B is 2,850 m long with 12 corners; there are also a shorter road course, a motorcycle layout and a kart track, and two layouts can run at the same time. The width varies from 8 to 16 m and the total height difference is 9.6 m. The main straight doubles as a drag strip, which the operator gives as 940 m, and a small flat oval is built into the design. The original drawings had a shorter lap, but in June 2009 the layout was changed to stay clear of gas pipelines nearby, which also lowered the design top speed from 250 to 233 km/h and made room for a separate rallycross track. In spring 2018 the surface was upgraded and the layout improved, earning the licence needed for the SMP Formula 4 championship.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
The main building holds 24 pit garages with room for 100 cars, a car service, a karting academy and a medical centre on the ground floor, a press centre and welcome centre above them, a café, and race control on the fourth floor. Four grandstands seat about 9,000 people, the largest of them 5,000. The 20-room Art Hotel NRing opened in 2017, and a spa village of five two-storey cottages with Russian bathhouses followed. Beyond the road courses, the site has drift and off-road tracks and winter layouts for karting, drifting and rally sprints. The operator runs a driving school, and in 2018 it installed a flag signalling system of its own design together with video surveillance.
History
The Russian Automobile Federation approved the project in August 2008, and construction began on 15 December 2008. The asphalt was laid in stages from July 2009 to June 2010, and in May 2010 the FIA confirmed that the design met its second-category requirements; Russian Wikipedia describes NRing as the first Russian circuit to reach that grade. The governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Valery Shantsev, opened the circuit on 3 July 2010, and the Russian Touring Car Championship raced there the same month. The Russian Drift Series, drag racing cups, the Russian Superbike Championship and the Russian Racing Championship followed in the early years. In 2015 the focus moved to buildings, with the pit garages, a control tower, a media centre and spectator stands. The circuit has also hosted Formula 4 and Mitjet 2L, and it runs its own amateur series, including one for historic Volga and Lada saloons.
Address
Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Contact
nring.ru
