Bilster Berg is a hill and valley circuit set entirely in the forest: 4.2 kilometres, 19 corners, 44 crests and dips, plus up to 26 percent gradient downhill and up to 21 percent uphill. According to the operator, a lap adds up to 204 metres of elevation change, and some corner exits only reveal themselves once you are already in them. Based on our instructors' experience, this is a circuit that rewards precision and is best built up over several track days, not mastered on your very first lap.
The lap outline from start/finish, the same map as on our Bilster Berg circuit page.
A lap begins on the start/finish straight, 600 metres long, before the track turns into the Kugelkopf ("ball head", T1), the first corner of the lap. Fledermaushügel ("bat hill", T2), Pumpenhaus ("pump house", T3) and Munitionsfeld ("munitions field", T4) follow, the latter named after a former ammunition depot on the site. From Munitionsfeld, the Pömbser Höhe begins, named after the nearby village of Pömbsen and the longest straight on the lap besides start/finish. It carries you across into the western loop.
The western loop begins at Jägerbuche ("hunter's beech", T5) and continues via Driburger Lichtung ("Driburg clearing", T6), from where, according to the operator, you can see towards Bad Driburg, on to Hermannsschneise ("Hermann's clearing", T7). This corner is dedicated to Hermann Tilke, the circuit's designer. Sauwechsel ("wild boar crossing", T8) follows, which the operator ties to a wild boar anecdote about Tilke, and Telegrafenbogen ("telegraph bend", T9), which recalls a historical telegraph station that stood on the site from 1833 to 1849.
Kommandatur (T10) is named after the site's former British command post. Then come the two steepest corners on the circuit, back to back: the Mausefalle ("mousetrap", T11), dropping up to 26 percent, which the operator says nods to the Streif downhill ski run in Kitzbühel, and the Steilwand ("steep wall", T12), which climbs back up just as steeply at up to 21 percent. Via Bilster Kuppe ("Bilster crest", T13) and Hochsitz ("hunting hide", T14), named after a former observation tower, you reach Clubhaus-S (T15 and T16), the double corner right by the circuit's clubhouse.
From Clubhaus-S the track heads back towards the eastern loop and leads into the Mutkurve ("courage corner", T17), which the operator describes as blind with a downhill gradient, as its name already suggests. Between the Mutkurve and Hügelgrab ("burial mound", T18), named after a protected archaeological monument on the site, the Nieheimer Senke marks the lowest point of the whole circuit, according to the operator. The last corner of the lap is the Oeynhausen-Kehre ("Oeynhausen hairpin", T19), after which the track returns to the start/finish straight.
All 19 corners at Bilster Berg have their own name, not just a number. For some of them, the operator also tells the story behind the name, listed here in full, for the rest we deliberately state only the position and no invented backstory.
Based on our experience, 44 crests and dips over 4.2 kilometres mean one thing above all: many passages whose exit you only see once you are already in the middle of them. The operator even officially describes the Mutkurve as blind. That makes Bilster Berg a circuit you build up in steps, not one you master on your very first lap.
One thing beyond driving technique: Bilster Berg runs its own noise regime for the circuit. What that means for your car is explained in the guide Noise limits at race circuits.
Every scheduled track day at Bilster Berg, ready to book.
All circuit data, directions and further dates are gathered on the Bilster Berg circuit page.
Next date is Sat 12 Sep 2026. Instructors are with you all day in the ticket, even if this is your first time here.
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