Foundation in at Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center

Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center.

The world’s seventh Porsche Experience Center is currently being built directly within the confines of the Grand Prix track at Germany’s famous Hockenheimring. The foundation stone was laid on today, with the center scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2019. The new Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center will cover a total area of 160,000 square meters.

The first Porsche Experience Center opened on the factory grounds in Leipzig in 2002. It was followed by Silverstone (UK, 2008), Atlanta (USA, 2015), Le Mans (France, 2015), and Los Angeles (USA, 2016). A new center in Shanghai (China) was added in April 2018.

Hockenheimring will include multiple tracks and areas for a variety of training programmers. A demanding – in Porsche’s view 2.7-kilometer handling track will give drivers the chance to experience vehicle dynamics. The track will be complemented by dynamic modules, such as water zones, a skid simulator and three roundabouts. A 5,200-square-meter off-road park containing 16 separate modules will have tricky off-road terrain, inclines of up to 70%, slopes, boulders, ditches, and tree trunks lying at different angles.

A three-story central building has “boxes” where new vehicles are handed over to customers, a restaurant, a café, conference rooms and venues for events.