HARDFR · Alpes-Maritimes · M 70

Col de Turini

The Monte-Carlo Rally's most famous climb, called corner by corner.

La Bollène-Vésubie to the Col de Turini, climbing east.

Corners coloured by severity · tightest in red

12.6km
LENGTH: 141
CORNERS CALLED: 12
HAIRPINS: 11.2
CORNERS / KM: +1119m
CLIMB: 1607m
HIGH POINT: 7.4%
AVERAGE GRADIENT

The Col de Turini is the road the Monte-Carlo Rally made famous: a 1,607-metre pass in the Alpes-Maritimes, above the Vésubie valley, and the setting for the night stage crews still call the Nuit du Turini. It is a genuinely difficult road, narrow, relentlessly linked, and almost never straight.

This stage is the classic western climb from La Bollène-Vésubie to the col, on the road OpenStreetMap tags M 70 (the old D 70). Tornante builds its pacenotes from that road's real geometry and elevation, and the table below is the complete set: every corner, in the same notation the app speaks aloud.

What the numbers show is how little rest the road gives you. Over 12.6 kilometres it produces 141 calls, better than eleven corners per kilometre, and the grade histogram is weighted hard toward the tight end: 38 corners graded 1 or 2, against only 20 graded 5 or 6.

The hairpins arrive in a burst rather than evenly. Three of the twelve land inside the first 250 metres of the climb, which is why the opening beats of the spoken notes link together into one continuous phrase instead of separate calls.

THE STAGE MAP

Every corner, where it actually is.

startH · hairpinOH · open hairpin123456

THE CLIMB

Elevation profile.

664 m → 1607 m over 12.6 kmvertical scale ×3.2elevation from a terrain model, not a survey

CORNER MIX

What the road is actually made of.

11hairpin
1open hairpin
71
312
373
344
165
46

THE PACENOTES

All 141 calls, in order.

Every call Tornante makes on Col de Turini, in order. Distances are from the stage start to the corner’s turn-in.
At	Call	Notes	Radius	Turn	Altitude
0000m	L1	long	14 m	151°	672 m
0075m	R hairpin		10 m	163°	671 m
0165m	L hairpin		7 m	175°	668 m
0250m	L5-		82 m	13°	665 m
0315m	L3	long	30 m	142°	664 m
0470m	L3		36 m	59°	684 m
0545m	L4		56 m	28°	690 m
0590m	R3		32 m	26°	689 m
0660m	L3		30 m	22°	680 m
0695m	R3		31 m	66°	677 m
0820m	L3		37 m	36°	678 m
0870m	R hairpin		12 m	195°	682 m
1000m	L2	long	24 m	124°	695 m
1140m	R3+		41 m	79°	718 m
1230m	R4		71 m	17°	721 m
1300m	L6		172 m	17°	716 m
1540m	L4		62 m	13°	733 m
1585m	R5-		82 m	42°	737 m
1705m	L2	long	23 m	127°	747 m
1840m	L4+		76 m	12°	782 m
1885m	R3		40 m	83°	795 m
1980m	L3		30 m	80°	815 m
2060m	L5-		83 m	16°	822 m
2110m	R4-		44 m	59°	823 m
2185m	L3		39 m	22°	827 m
2260m	R1		19 m	83°	831 m
2315m	L3		33 m	30°	833 m
2420m	L3		36 m	26°	831 m
2465m	R3		34 m	101°	826 m
2595m	L1	long	17 m	142°	817 m
2680m	R4		48 m	35°	833 m
2740m	L2+	long	28 m	97°	851 m
2835m	R4		59 m	38°	882 m
2900m	R5-		78 m	15°	893 m
3100m	R1+		20 m	53°	919 m
3150m	L2		21 m	47°	921 m
3195m	R2		24 m	42°	921 m
3245m	L3		40 m	56°	923 m
3335m	R2		22 m	94°	927 m
3425m	L3		31 m	54°	932 m
3485m	L3		35 m	49°	939 m
3560m	R5		116 m	21°	947 m
3655m	L6-		151 m	14°	958 m
3715m	R2-		20 m	111°	955 m
3785m	L2		24 m	102°	952 m
3870m	R5-		81 m	16°	945 m
3955m	R4		45 m	27°	952 m
4025m	L5		124 m	12°	960 m
4070m	R3		36 m	54°	963 m
4135m	L hairpin		11 m	201°	969 m
4235m	R3		31 m	36°	982 m
4285m	L2		23 m	84°	990 m
4355m	R3-		29 m	64°	1003 m
4420m	L4-		44 m	55°	1006 m
4505m	R hairpin		9 m	190°	996 m
4600m	L4		45 m	21°	994 m
4645m	R4		47 m	36°	998 m
4710m	L2		23 m	58°	1010 m
4770m	R3+		40 m	55°	1018 m
4830m	L4		53 m	45°	1028 m
4885m	L hairpin		9 m	171°	1040 m
4965m	R3		32 m	49°	1059 m
5025m	L4		47 m	66°	1071 m
5100m	R hairpin		10 m	185°	1077 m
5190m	R3		39 m	53°	1079 m
5260m	L3		31 m	64°	1079 m
5330m	L4-		44 m	26°	1084 m
5395m	R5-		78 m	16°	1091 m
5485m	R2		27 m	63°	1104 m
5550m	L3		33 m	25°	1109 m
5590m	R3		39 m	21°	1112 m
5635m	R5		94 m	19°	1110 m
5685m	R2	long	23 m	140°	1103 m
5795m	L3		37 m	32°	1072 m
5850m	L4		47 m	28°	1061 m
5905m	R4		52 m	13°	1055 m
5980m	L5		120 m	25°	1057 m
6090m	L3		39 m	98°	1078 m
6315m	R5		111 m	16°	1144 m
6400m	L5		89 m	16°	1150 m
6460m	R4		49 m	35°	1153 m
6515m	L hairpin		10 m	176°	1154 m
6610m	L3		36 m	27°	1155 m
6660m	R4		60 m	24°	1159 m
6865m	R hairpin		13 m	186°	1159 m
6950m	L5		137 m	14°	1161 m
7130m	R5		97 m	28°	1203 m
7205m	L3		38 m	37°	1213 m
7285m	R4		66 m	23°	1219 m
7390m	R2	long	23 m	135°	1223 m
7550m	L5		96 m	33°	1198 m
7635m	R2+		28 m	33°	1184 m
7680m	L2		25 m	25°	1185 m
7780m	R4		60 m	33°	1199 m
7835m	L2		23 m	99°	1213 m
8070m	L hairpin		11 m	186°	1254 m
8155m	R4-		43 m	16°	1258 m
8310m	R hairpin		9 m	183°	1254 m
8390m	L5		103 m	20°	1261 m
8480m	L4		61 m	38°	1281 m
8580m	R3		35 m	82°	1299 m
8670m	L2		22 m	58°	1304 m
8745m	R2		26 m	106°	1300 m
8880m	L2		25 m	61°	1289 m
8940m	R4		51 m	29°	1290 m
8985m	L2		25 m	62°	1299 m
9050m	R4		61 m	34°	1316 m
9130m	L3+		41 m	61°	1339 m
9445m	L4		57 m	29°	1375 m
9505m	L4-		41 m	106°	1384 m
9670m	L4-		43 m	46°	1392 m
9830m	L4		52 m	48°	1416 m
9905m	R open hairpin		15 m	192°	1423 m
10015m	R6-		159 m	26°	1426 m
10165m	L4		50 m	82°	1441 m
10270m	R2		27 m	93°	1452 m
10430m	L6-		149 m	19°	1462 m
10605m	L2		28 m	114°	1481 m
10740m	R3		34 m	55°	1490 m
10810m	L4		52 m	16°	1497 m
10845m	R2		26 m	63°	1502 m
10900m	L3		33 m	85°	1505 m
10980m	R1	long	19 m	154°	1509 m
11065m	L2	long	25 m	128°	1513 m
11195m	R2	long	22 m	126°	1528 m
11275m	L2		26 m	85°	1531 m
11335m	R1+	long	20 m	102°	1529 m
11410m	L4		59 m	24°	1524 m
11465m	L3		32 m	107°	1529 m
11585m	R2		25 m	98°	1548 m
11685m	L4		63 m	92°	1558 m
11850m	R3		30 m	80°	1578 m
11925m	R3		31 m	63°	1578 m
12030m	R4		67 m	36°	1563 m
12105m	L1	long	19 m	123°	1560 m
12190m	L4		49 m	49°	1572 m
12270m	R2		22 m	83°	1591 m
12335m	L2		26 m	36°	1605 m
12380m	R2		22 m	87°	1607 m
12465m	L3+		41 m	43°	1607 m
12570m	L2		25 m	33°	1604 m

How to read these notes

A call is a direction and a grade: L or R, then 1 (tightest) to 6 (barely a bend). A + or − means the corner sits near the edge of its band. Corners too tight for the ladder are named instead: hairpin, open hairpin, square.

The Notes column carries the modifiers a co-driver would add: tightens, opens, long, don’t cut. Radius is the tightest sustained apex radius the engine measured, and Turn is the total heading change through the corner. Those are the two numbers behind the grade.

HOW IT SOUNDS

The opening of the stage, as spoken.

0m“20, left 1 long into hairpin right”
165m“20, hairpin left and left 5”
315m“40, left 3 long”
470m“40, left 3 and left 4”
590m“20, right 3 and left 3”
695m“20, right 3”

QUESTIONS

Col de Turini, in brief.

How long is the Col de Turini climb?

The classic climb from La Bollène-Vésubie to the col is about 12.6 km, gaining roughly 940 m net to a summit of 1,607 m, an average gradient of about 7.4%.

How many hairpins does the Col de Turini have?

On this climb Tornante's engine calls 12 hairpins among 141 corners. Other ramps of the pass, and the descent toward Sospel or Moulinet, have their own counts.

Why is the Col de Turini famous?

It is the signature stage of the Monte-Carlo Rally, traditionally run at night as the Nuit du Turini, and one of the most recognised mountain roads in motorsport.

WHERE THIS COMES FROM

Measured, not written.

Every corner on this page was generated by the same engine that runs in the app, from the road’s own geometry: Route du Col de Turini (M 70), mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors and tagged tertiary, asphalt. The engine is deterministic: the same road always produces the same notes, so this table is exactly what the app will say to you.

Elevation comes from an open terrain model rather than a survey, so altitudes are close but not exact. Corner grades are computed estimates, not measurements of how the road should be driven.

Drive it with the calls.

Col de Turini ships with the app. Start the stage and Tornante speaks each of these calls as you reach it, timed to your GPS, so your eyes stay on the road rather than on a screen.

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Corner density on this stage: 11.2 calls per kilometre.