Hyundai N’s Track Maps tech to add more Australian circuits

The new Hyundai N hot hatch, sedan, or SUV may soon be able to record lap times around a race track near you, following a software update due next year.

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The latest generation of Hyundai N performance cars will be able to navigate you to a race track – and then help you set your best lap time, courtesy of a new program built into the infotainment system.

Known as Track Maps, the system – available in the i20 N, i30 Sedan N and Kona N, but not the i30 N hatch or Fastback – allows a ‘circuit widget’ to be loaded into the the N program in the car’s infotainment system, which alerts the driver when they approach a “compatible” race track.

With the Hyundai driver’s intended track layout selected, the Track Maps serves as an automatic lap timer, employing what its name suggests – maps of the track – and in-built start/finish line locations to record the driver’s times without needing to press a button manually.

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Track Maps will initially offer support for Sydney Motorsport Park (SMP) at Sydney’s Eastern Creek and Wakefield Park near Goulburn in the i30 Sedan N.

The Hyundai i20 N and Kona N initially trace only Sydney Motorsport Park – though Hyundai Australia promises “more than 10” new Australian tracks will be added with a free software update in mid-2022.

The final list of circuits to be added is yet to be confirmed, though Hyundai says they will be “major circuits around Australia”, indicating Hyundai N buyers from other states will be able to make use of the feature.

South Australia’s The Bend Motorsport Park could be one option – a circuit the South Korean company is familiar with, having hosted the i30 Fastback N’s media launch at the facility in 2019 – as could Winton (in Victoria) and Queensland Raceway, both venues of past Hyundai N Festival customer events.

Stay tuned to Drive for more news on the Track Maps software update for the 2022 Hyundai i20 N, Kona N and i30 Sedan N, which will be available to download and install at home (in the i30 Sedan N and i20 N, at least) through a page on Hyundai’s website.

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