MSV
MotorSport Vision has announced a raft of upgrades to its Navarra circuit in Spain this year, including the introduction of a new sequence of corners.
MSV took over the operation of the track at the end of 2022 and completed significant redevelopment work to its infrastructure last year, such as improving the race control building and a refurbishment of the paddock restaurant. But the track’s layout itself is the focus of the latest two-stage improvements.
Work is already beginning on removing bumps and resurfacing some sections, while the Turn 6 left-hander is being reprofiled to become a much faster corner. Then, during the circuit’s summer break in July and August, the track is to be extended with a new straight added to the middle of the lap that will lead into a banked hairpin. The new sequence will take the circuit’s length from 2.44 to 2.85 miles.
MSV chief executive Jonathan Palmer explained that the changes were designed to make the lap more flowing after he sampled the track at the wheel of a GT3. “It was great fun, with some exciting elevation changes, but it was clear to me that it could be even better by changing the layout to make it faster and more flowing – there were too many slow corners,” he said.
“We then went a stage further and got Driven International to produce on-board simulations wi
