The new Handling circuit completes the comprehensive Nardò Technical Center tracks and facilities for all the road testing activities on dry surface. Designed to fit the demands of the Car Makers and Motorsport vehicle dynamics experts. Its curves fulfill the technicians request for vehicles and tires performance testing, placed in a warm climate, for an all-seasons use.

• Total length: m 6222;
• Straight stretch: m 1000;
• Width:
  - m 15 on the straight;
  - m 10,50 for the rest;
• Bends: n. 7 on the right, n. 9 on the left;
• Crossfall/slope: 2,5%, 7%;
• Longitudinal slope: from + 5,78% to - 6,90%.

• Limit handling;
• Instrumented handling test;
• Subjective handling evaluations;
• Benchmarking comparison;
• Tires performance analysis and development;
• Suspension development and set up;
• Components and active systems tuning;
• High performance braking systems test.

• Product launch;
• Driver training courses.

NTC Engineering Department and its expert vehicle dynamics team provide objective characterizations, benchmarking comparison and subjective evaluations. A dedicated team with high skill resources (technicians, drivers and engineers) and instrumentation which manage and provide the whole testing activity: vehicle equipment, manoeuvres execution and data post-processing. Our application fields focus:

• Handling and steering analysis;
  
• NVH;
  
• Braking system performance.
  

Furthermore, our Team can provide

• Comparison with a wide vehicle dynamics database;
  
• Multy-body modeling and simulation (ADAMS Car);
  
• Models tuning and set up trough objective cross-correlation.