Austria, Plainfeld
Salzburgring
A 4.241 km circuit in Plainfeld. Timed layouts, lap times and what you need to know before a track day here.
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Going to Salzburgring?
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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Salzburgring 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 Salzburgring
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: 8°C by day, 1°C at night, rain on 13 days. Warmest in August, 24°C by day on average. Coldest in January, −4°C at night. Fewest days with rain: February.
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
Salzburgring elevation
Elevation change 23 m, steepest gradient 8.1%. The highest point, about 670 m above sea level, is 2.74 km from the start line; the lowest, about 647 m, 1.36 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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More to do with the session than the lap time
About Salzburgring
Overview
The Salzburgring lies a few kilometres east of the city of Salzburg, in the Nesslgraben valley between the villages of Koppl, Plainfeld and Hof, on the edge of the Salzkammergut lake district. Surrounded by hills and forest, it has been in use since 1969. The land belongs to the state of Salzburg, and the circuit is run by IGM Salzburgring, a non-profit motorsport association, without subsidies. Besides race meetings it is used for driving safety courses, testing and development, track days, product launches, filming and music festivals, while the number of major motorsport events is limited to five a year.
Technical Specifications and Track Features
The operator gives the lap as 4.255 km with 12 corners, six to the left and six to the right. The lap follows a narrow alpine valley and has four straights. The lowest point is 648.3 m above sea level and the highest 670.6 m, a difference of about 25 m, with a maximum climb of 3.8 percent and a maximum descent of 1.8 percent. After the start, the first corner is the slowest and tightest on the lap and the place where most time is lost under braking. The Nockstein-Kehre that follows is slightly banked and taken with a late apex, and the back straight climbs the valley as a series of bends taken flat out. The Fahrerlagerkurve, or paddock corner, is the fastest point of the lap, and the Reiner S, in effect three corners in a row, slows the cars before the start-finish straight, the longest of the four. Chicanes and run-off zones were added over the years to meet safety rules.
Facilities and Specialized Areas
The pit complex has 31 garages, 15 of them double. Two grandstands seat 2,800 and 300 spectators, and the grass banks above the paddock give a view of both straights and the long paddock corner. Paddock 1 offers more than 20,000 square metres of open space and Paddock 3 about 6,500 square metres. A tower houses race control, timing, the race doctor and a VIP lounge with a roof terrace, and the administration building contains a training room with pit lane access and a catering room. The Gasthaus am Ring restaurant seats 145 people inside and 145 on its covered terrace.
History
Construction began in 1968 and the circuit opened on 21 September 1969 with a combined car and motorcycle race. The first Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix followed in 1970, and the circuit held rounds of the motorcycle World Championship from 1971 to 1994, drawing up to 100,000 spectators. Jochen Rindt's last race was a Formula 2 event here on 30 August 1970. The European Formula Two Championship visited from 1972 to 1976, the European Touring Car Championship raced here for many seasons, and the DTM came in 1987. Hans Stadelmann was killed in the 350 cc class of the 1977 Grand Prix, and three marshals died during a touring car race in 1994. The World Touring Car Championship raced here from 2012 to 2014 and the TCR International Series from 2015 to 2017. The Electric Love festival has been held at the circuit since 2013. A 2016 contract to sell the track to Dietrich Mateschitz for 3 million euros fell through. The circuit marked its 50th anniversary in 2019, and in 2021 the chicane before the finish line was named the Reiner S after former IGMS president Alexander Reiner.
