Portugal, Portimão
Portimão - Motorcycling Circuit
A 4.592 km circuit in Portimão. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
Going to Portimão?
See which corner costs you the most time.
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Track layouts
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Grand Prix Circuit with Chicane
4.684 km
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Grand Prix Circuit
4.653 km
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Motorcycling Circuit
4.592 km
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Lap times only compare within one layout.
Going to Portimão?
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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Portimão 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.
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Track day guide
Track day at Portimão
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: 19°C by day, 16°C at night, rain on 11 days. Warmest in August, 25°C by day on average. Coldest in January, 13°C at night. Fewest days with rain: July to 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
Portimão elevation
Elevation change 27 m, steepest gradient 8.8%. The highest point, about 123 m above sea level, is 2.00 km from the start line; the lowest, about 95 m, 0.58 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 Portimão
The Motorcycling Circuit configuration is one of 3 layouts available at Portimão - 4.592 km across 15 corners. Lap times and sessions on this layout are tracked separately from other configurations.
Overview
The Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, called the Algarve International Circuit in English and usually just Portimão, stands in the parish of Mexilhoeira Grande, about 16 km from the centre of Portimão in southern Portugal. It is run by Parkalgar, Parques Tecnológicos e Desportivos, as the centre of a motorsport park that also holds a karting venue, an off-road course, a hotel and apartments. The circuit has FIA Grade 1 status and has staged Formula One, MotoGP and the Superbike World Championship, along with rounds of the World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The circuit is known for its rolling ground, with long downhill sections and a run of right-hand bends after the main straight. The operator lists 32 possible configurations. The Grand Prix version used by Formula One measures 4.653 km with 15 turns, and the motorcycle version 4.592 km, also with 15 turns. The racing surface is 14 m wide. The main straight, 18 m wide, runs 969 m. The steepest climb is 6.2% and the steepest drop 12%. Lewis Hamilton set the Formula One race lap record of 1:18.750 in a Mercedes W11 at the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix, and Pedro Acosta holds the MotoGP record of 1:38.237 on a KTM from 2025. One corner is named after Craig Jones, a rider for the Parkalgar team who was killed at Brands Hatch in 2008, and a statue of him stands at the roundabout by the main entrance.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
The pit building has 42 garages of 135 m² each, and the paddock covers 72,000 m². A four-storey VIP tower holds 48 executive boxes, a restaurant and terraces. The main grandstand seats 16,654 people, and the other stands add more than 56,000 seats. The park has a skid pad for car control training, an off-road course and the Kartódromo Internacional do Algarve, which opened in 2010. That kart venue is 8 m wide, runs to 1,531 m and follows CIK-FIA rules. Beside the circuit are the Algarve Race Resort hotel with 75 rooms, serviced apartments and a business incubator. A racing school and driving courses for cars and motorcycles are offered on site.
History
The project was given national interest status by the Portuguese government, was designed by the Ricardo Pina architecture practice and was reported to have cost about 195 million euros. Work began in February 2008 and was complete by October. The FIM homologated the circuit on 11 October 2008 and the FIA two days later, and the first major meeting was the Superbike World Championship final on 2 November 2008. McLaren, Honda, Ferrari and Toyota tested Formula One cars there that winter. In 2009 it held A1 Grand Prix, GP2, FIA GT and Le Mans Series races, and the World Touring Car Championship visited in 2010 and 2012. In May 2012 a group of contractors filed for the insolvency of Parkalgar over unpaid bills. Formula One arrived in October 2020 as a pandemic replacement, the first Portuguese Grand Prix since 1996, and came back in May 2021. MotoGP has held its Portuguese round there since 2020 and added an Algarve round in 2021. The World Endurance Championship raced there in 2021 and 2023, and the DTM in 2022.
