Autodromo Nazionale Monza
The Temple of Speed. Monza is the fastest circuit in Europe — huge straights, three sharp chicanes, and the legendary sweep of Curva Grande and Parabolica, all set inside a royal park just outside Milan.
- Length
- 5.793 km
- 3.6 miles
- Direction
- Clockwise
- 11 corners
- Noise limit
- Strictly
- check with operator
- Elevation
- 162 m
- above sea level
Rain forecast & radar
forecast: next 24h · radar: past 2h (observed)Forecast rain map — play the loop to see where the model expects rain over the next 24 hours around the circuit.
Observed rain radar — which way the rain has actually been moving. A dry paddock doesn't mean a dry apex.
Track map
Grand Prix · Clockwise · 11 corners- 01Variante del Rettifilo
- 03Curva Grande
- 04Variante della Roggia
- 06Lesmo 1
- 07Lesmo 2
- 08Variante Ascari
- 11Parabolica
Outline traced from surveyed map data (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Corner markers are indicative — not a substitute for the circuit's own briefing map.
The current Formula 1 and track day configuration, largely unchanged in character since the 1970s chicanes were added.
What's on
Track days
- Spring to autumn
Sessioned car and bike track days
Various European operators
- Year-round
Open pitlane days
Circuit / local operators
Race meetings
- Late summer
Italian Grand Prix
Formula 1
- Season-long
GT World Challenge Europe round
SRO / GT World Challenge
- Season-long
Italian national championship meetings
ACI Sport
Curated by hand and shown as typical timing rather than confirmed dates. Always check the operator's or organising club's own calendar before booking travel.
Key info
- Noise limit
- Strictly enforced due to residential proximity within the Parco di Monza — typically around 95–100 dB(A) drive-by; confirm with the organiser as it varies by event
- Elevation notes
- Essentially flat — set inside the royal park with no meaningful gradient. What defines the lap is speed, not elevation: this is the fastest, lowest-downforce circuit in Europe, run flat-out for roughly three-quarters of each lap.
Known tricky sections
- The three chicanes
Rettifilo, della Roggia and Ascari are the only places you brake hard. Each is a full-commitment slow-in, and getting the entry wrong costs a straight-line's worth of time, not just a corner.
- Parabolica
A long, patient, uphill-loading final corner that decides your exit speed onto the front straight — and therefore your straight-line speed and slipstream for the whole next lap.
- Kerb strikes
The chicane kerbs are aggressive by design to punish cutting. Hit them wrong and it unsettles the car right where you need it settled for the next braking zone.
- Slipstreaming and traffic
The long straights mean a car ahead genuinely changes your braking points and top speed. Be aware of faster traffic closing fast out of the chicanes on open track day sessions.
Nearby amenities
- Fuel
Monza & Biassono forecourts
Five to ten minutes from the circuit; 98 RON widely available.
- Food
Circuit paddock catering
Available on event days; Monza town is a short drive for far better options.
- Accommodation
Monza & Milan
Monza itself has good hotel choice five minutes away; central Milan is 30–40 minutes for far more options.
Travelling from the UK
Nearest airports
Milan Linate (LIN) ~30 min; Milan Bergamo (BGY) ~35 min; Milan Malpensa (MXP) ~45 min — all served directly from the UK.
Typical routes
- Fly-and-drive is the norm: all three Milan airports have wide rental availability and direct UK flights.
- By road via France and Switzerland through the Mont Blanc or Fréjus tunnel — around 2 days' driving from Calais.
- By road avoiding Switzerland via the Fréjus tunnel and Turin — slightly longer but sidesteps the Swiss vignette requirement.
Documentation & border notes
- UK-registered cars need a UK identifier — a UK sticker, or a number plate carrying the UK identifier. GB stickers are no longer valid.
- Check your road insurance covers EU driving and carry proof; a green card is not currently required for EU countries.
- Track driving is excluded from virtually every road policy — arrange separate on-track cover before you travel.
- Carry your V5C (or VE103 for a hire/lease car), photocard licence and passport.
- Italy requires a warning triangle and hi-vis vest; headlamp beam deflectors are needed for RHD cars.
- If routing through Switzerland, a Swiss motorway vignette is required even for transit — buy it before you cross the border.
- Several Italian cities (including central Milan) operate low-emission or congestion zones (Area C/Area B) — check your vehicle before routing through, though the circuit itself sits outside them.