Purple Sector
Highlands Circuit One, turn by turn
Highlands Circuit One in order: 14 numbered turns and 6 unnumbered bends, each with its direction, shape and spacing on the mapped route.
Highlands Motorsport Park’s Circuit One is 4.0 km on MotorSport NZ’s circuit map, raced clockwise, with 14 numbered turns and 6 bends the map leaves without a number. The operator’s hot-lap pages call it a 4.1 km track, and the distances below are measured on Purple Sector’s mapped centreline, which is 3,920 m round. Each turn below has its direction, its shape from Purple Sector’s mapped geometry, and how far it sits from the turns either side.
The 14 numbered turns and 6 unnumbered bends
Shapes come from Purple Sector’s registry geometry.
| Turn | Direction | Shape | From previous turn | To next turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the start-line curve (no number) | right | kink, about 22° | 240 m after T14 | 300 m to T1 |
| T1 | right | open corner, about 44° | 300 m after the start-line curve | 25 m to the chicane’s second bend |
| the chicane’s second bend (no number) | left | open corner, about 43° | 25 m after T1 | 70 m to the chicane’s third bend |
| the chicane’s third bend (no number) | left | open corner, about 41° | 70 m after the chicane’s second bend | 30 m to the chicane exit |
| the chicane exit (no number) | right | open corner, about 41° | 30 m after the chicane’s third bend | 270 m to T2 |
| T2 | right | bend, about 206° | 270 m after the chicane exit | 480 m to T3 |
| T3 | left | open corner, about 43° | 480 m after T2 | 60 m to the right between T3 and T4 |
| the right between T3 and T4 (no number) | right | roughly right-angle corner, about 94° | 60 m after T3 | 60 m to T4 |
| T4 | left | bend, about 135° | 60 m after the right between T3 and T4 | 290 m to T5 |
| T5 | left | bend, about 178° | 290 m after T4 | 105 m to T6 |
| T6 | right | open corner, about 52° | 105 m after T5 | 120 m to T7 |
| T7 | right | open corner, about 57° | 120 m after T6 | 320 m to T8 |
| T8 | left | kink, about 24° | 320 m after T7 | 195 m to T9 |
| T9 | left | bend, about 139° | 195 m after T8 | 505 m to T10 |
| T10 | left | roughly right-angle corner, about 84° | 505 m after T9 | 25 m to the exit of T10 |
| the exit of T10 (no number) | right | open corner, about 66° | 25 m after T10 | 275 m to T11 |
| T11 | left | bend, about 120° | 275 m after the exit of T10 | 225 m to T12 |
| T12 | right | bend, about 145° | 225 m after T11 | 150 m to T13 |
| T13 | right | kink, about 27° | 150 m after T12 | 175 m to T14 |
| T14 | right | roughly right-angle corner, about 76° | 175 m after T13 | 240 m to the start-line curve |
History
Highlands opened at Easter 2013. MotorSport NZ says Tony Quinn designed it with his son Klark after buying the land in 2012.
Questions
How many turns does Highlands have?
The Circuit One layout has 14 numbered turns in 4,000 m, raced clockwise: 7 left-handers and 7 right-handers.
How long is Highlands Motorsport Park?
MotorSport NZ’s circuit map gives Circuit One as 4.0 km; the operator’s hot-lap pages say 4.1 km.
Map, layouts and turn numbers: Highlands Motorsport Park track map. More maps: every track in New Zealand · the track list. Other circuits turn by turn: Mount Panorama · Phillip Island · Sydney Motorsport Park · The Bend Motorsport Park · Queensland Raceway · Lakeside Park · One Raceway · Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit · Sandown Raceway · Adelaide Street Circuit · Euromarque Motorsport Park (Ruapuna) · Hampton Downs Motorsport Park · MotorMall Wanneroo Raceway · Winton Motor Raceway · Calder Park Raceway · Ipswich Kart Club · Morgan Park Raceway · Hidden Valley Raceway · Symmons Plains Raceway · Baskerville Raceway · Mallala Motor Sport Park · Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon · Taupō International Motorsport Park · Teretonga Park · Luddenham Raceway · Collie Motorplex · Pheasant Wood Circuit · Wilby Motorsport Park.
Sources, checked 24 October 2026
- Turn numbers, directions, lengths and bend geometry (numbered to MotorSport NZ’s circuit map): Purple Sector’s circuit page: purplesector.dev/tracks/highlands-motorsport-park
- Turn numbers and 4.0 km: MotorSport New Zealand, Highlands circuit map (2023): motorsport.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/CRO004h_Highlands_CRO_Map.pdf
- The circuit’s history: MotorSport New Zealand, Highlands: motorsport.org.nz/circuits/highlands
- A 4.1 km track: Highlands (operator): highlands.co.nz
- NZ Performance Car, a tour of New Zealand’s circuits (22 Jul 2015): nzperformancecar.co.nz/2015-7-21-cutting-laps-we-take-a-tour-of-new-ze