The NRING Circuit is a race track located near Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...

 in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. The track opened in 2010 as a professional racing venue. It includes three road courses from 2.009 km to 3.222 km in length. Furthermore the facility contains an oval, a drag strip, a kart track and a training circuit.

Since 2010 the Russian Touring Car Championship

Russian Touring Car Championship

The Russian Touring Car Championship is a national Russian racing series created in 2004. It incorporates four classes: Touring, Super-Production, Touring-Light and the national class.since 2004, is the promoter of the Championship Sergey Krylov...

stages rounds on this track. Also the Russian Superbike Championship has meetings at the NRING.