Bilster Berg, motor racing circuit in Pömbsen, Germany
Bilster Berg is a 4.274 km test and presentation track in Pömbsen, a district of Bad Driburg, built on a former British Army ammunition depot. Designed by Hermann Tilke with input from Walter Röhrl, it has 19 turns, 44 crests and dips, and 200 m of elevation change, with gradients up to +21% and -26%. The circuit splits into a 1.8 km West Loop and a 2.4 km East Loop.
The site served as a British Army ammunition depot from the 1970s until 1993, when the 85-hectare area returned to Count Marcus von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff. Construction began in February 2011, and the track opened on 11 April 2013, with an official ceremony on 1 June 2013. It was the first track built in West Germany in 80 years.
Bilster Berg is a private facility, so access is only possible during booked events or closed club events; there are no grandstands, no public parking areas and no spectator infrastructure. The site lies in forest east of the Eggegebirge, about 3 km west of Nieheim and 10 km from Bad Driburg. The circuit is split into a 1.8 km west loop and a 2.4 km east loop.
Bilster Berg does not record official lap times. In 2014 a Donkervoort D8 GTO set a production-car record of 1:46.120, and in 2020 Lars Kern lowered it to 1:43.100 in a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The Volkswagen ID.R set an unofficial overall record of 1:24.206 the same year.
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