Trackday @ Pannonia-Ring

Built specifically with motorcycle racing in mind, the circuit opened in 1997, though facilities remained fairly primitive until a major resurfacing and proper concrete-barrier pit lane were installed in 2008. The track's wide run-off areas have made it one of the safest circuits in central Europe, and the technical 18-corner clockwise layout is widely considered more challenging than the more famous Hungaroring. Pannónia-Ring's most famous moment came in 2008 during Michael Schumacher's brief flirtation with motorcycle racing: the seven-time F1 world champion entered a largely amateur Pannónia race aboard a Honda CBR1000RR Superbike, qualifying fastest (though required to start at the back of the grid as he carried no timing transponder) and finishing a creditable third behind German IDM Superbike racers Martin Bauer and Andy Meklau. Today Pannónia-Ring hosts rounds of the Alpe Adria International Championship, the Hungarian national championship and the Austrian motorcycle ÖPSK championship, and is a major destination for German, Austrian and Slovenian trackday riders.