Sydney Motorsport Park Gardner (GP) Circuit
Sydney, NSW
Link: http://www.sydneymotorsportpark.com.au/
The original jewel in Sydney Motorsport Park’s crown is the Grand Prix circuit, which was constructed in 1990.
Complying with FIA Category Two standards, this legendary circuit has hosted a number of major international races, including the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, V8 Supercars Championship and Australian rounds of A1GP.
The track surface is hot mix bitumen, laid in a continuous length. At 15m wide on the main straight, the circuit narrows to 12m as it flows through landscaped hills.
A favourite amongst riders and drivers alike, the Grand Prix circuit offers a variety of challenging bends, curves, turns and straights. Offering plenty of cornering, braking and passing opportunities, the Grand Prix circuit rewards the committed.
Turn one is the fastest on the circuit, with nerves of steel required to turn in at 200km/h.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”456″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Sydney Motorsport Park Brabham (Extended) Circuit
Sydney, NSW
Link: http://www.sydneymotorsportpark.com.au/
The 4.5km long circuit combines the classic Grand Prix layout with an additional 830m of track that branches from the southern end of the circuit.
The extensions sees competitors take the turn seven right hander, head over a crest through turns eight and nine, before heading downhill through turn ten. A fast run into a hard braking area for the turn 11 hairpin sets competitors up for a fast uphill run through the turn 12/13 complex that rejoins the original Grand Prix layout at the entry to turn 14.
As Australia’s only FIA Category Two approved circuit, this layout offers an incredible mix of the fast flowing sections for which Sydney Motorsport Park is famous, with some very technical sections that will test the best of both car and motorcycle competitors and is sure to become a favourite.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”464″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Sydney Motorsport Park Druitt (North) Circuit
Sydney, NSW
Link: http://www.sydneymotorsportpark.com.au/
GP North was the first new circuit for Sydney Motorsport Park, created via the addition of a link road between turns 4 and 15 utilising the northern half of the Grand Prix circuit.
The link road offers a unique challenge, as racers turn left from the entry to turn four, followed by a banked right-hander over a blind crest with a downhill entry into the exit of turn 14.
This link has produced a fast, flowing 2.8km layout that is serviced by the Grand Prix pit lane on the main straight.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”462″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Sydney Motorsport Park Amaroo (South) Circuit
Sydney, NSW
Link: http://www.sydneymotorsportpark.com.au/
Running around the famous Corporate Hill, GP South incorporates the 830m extension from turn 6 through to turn 14.
From turn 14, competitors run down the hill towards the turn 15 hairpin, but turn left prior to entry across a left-right-left link road before re-entering the original circuit at the exit of turn 4.
This has created a short, sharp, technical circuit with a fantastic mix of corners that will test drivers and riders of all levels, from beginner to professional.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”463″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Pheasant Wood Circuit
Marulan, NSW
Link: https://pheasantwood.com.au/
Purchased by Steve Shelley in 2018, the circuit has been dramatically upgraded to world-class standards in track width, layout, safety and amenities. Just 4 minutes off the Hume Highway at 8 Prairie Oak Rd Marulan, it is only 90 minutes from Sydney or 1 hour from Canberra. This wide, beautiful, undulating and banked 1.6km circuit is encompassed by typical Australian bushland with several viewing platforms allowing spectators to get up close to the action.
The circuit contains corners, camber and character not seen at any other Australian race track. The corner cambers alleviate to an extent, the worry of contacting many of the concrete walls. The clockwise-direction track averages a healthy 14 metres (and up to 18 metres) in width, with a straight that heads uphill towards Turn 1. It is a challenging, late-apex hairpin with five degrees of positive camber and plenty of runoff area. It then plunges downhill towards a long, banked, constant-radius right-hand hairpin which is faster than it looks. The circuit doubles back on itself through another cambered corner, diving to the left as it heads slightly downhill in an opening-radius corner that sees cars increase speed on corner exit. The road opens up and gently curves to the left through Turn 4, before climbing uphill into Turn 5 – a right-hander with a good inside passing opportunity. From there a short straight ends at the 90-degree to the right Turn 6 before dropping downhill towards the fast, right-hand Turn 7. The kink can be tricky as at that part of the track, one has to brake and set up for the left-handed Turn 8 that has negative 1.5 degrees of camber. The track sweeps right at Turn 9 which is cambered 17 degrees at the apex, and allows for a fast exit back onto the start-finish straight. It’s not a long lap, but it is exiting!
A Category 2 Motorsport Australia track licence permits speed events, corporate events, drive days and club events through to fully-blown motorsport events on a larger scale. Timing loops for hillclimb that is run in an anti-clockwise direction have also been installed. The first stage of development (1.6km circuit) has been completed, with the second stage of development (3.6km circuit) planned to get underway in 2023. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”9938″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Wakefield Park Raceway
Tirrannaville, NSW
Link: http://www.wakefieldpark.com.au/
The circuit is located two hours drive from Sydney and about one hour from Canberra, and is positioned on Braidwood Road, 10 kilometres south of Goulburn on 130 acres of cleared land. There are no trees or natural obstacles near the track. Safety is excellent and ripple strips, tyre walls and gravel traps have been positioned so as to make Wakefield a very safe circuit on which to run.
The Raceway is named after Charles Cheers Wakefield, the founder of Castrol Oil.The founder of Wakefield Park, amateur racer and former motor dealer, Paul Samuels privately funded the circuit for amateur racers with the likelihood in the 1990s of both Amaroo and Oran Parks closing. Its first meeting was held on 8 May 1994 and the total cost of the land and work was $1.2 million.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”481″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Winton
Benalla, VIC
Link: http://www.wintonraceway.com.au/
Racing at Winton Motor Raceway is always exciting and close because the circuit has a combination of long fast straights and twisty and tight bends. It is also known as “Australia’s Action Track”. Dick Johnson once described the circuit being ‘like running a marathon around your clothes-line’.
The Benalla Auto Club began planning for a permanent racing track around 1958, as a replacement for their existing track at Barjarg. In 1960 it was decided to build the track at Winton Recreation Reserve and the track was completed in twelve months. The circuit hosted its first race meeting on 26 November 1961.The circuit length was extended prior to the 1997 round of the V8 Supercar championship and the upgrade included a new pit complex.
The original circuit (now called the Winton Club Circuit) is 2.03 km in length and comprises 11 turns. The circuit was lengthened to 3.0 km with the cars turning left prior to the esses and a series of right hand turns added before the extension rejoins the original track at the esses. The long circuit is called the Winton National Circuit.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”466″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Phillip Island
Cowes, VIC
Link: http://www.phillipislandcircuit.com.au/
In 1952 a steering committee formed and the Phillip Island Auto Racing Club (PIARC) was developed with a dream “to build Australia’s first international grand prix circuit”.
The current site was purchased in that year. PIARC called for 7000 subscriptions at 10 pounds ($20) each to assist in the development of the circuit and building work. An Alfa Romeo was used to measure the three-mile distance required for international certification as an International Circuit.
Between 1952 and 1956 the building of the circuit met with some major engineering hurdles, and PIARC had to call for more money from its shareholders. The Grand Opening Meeting was held with much acclaim in December 1956.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”459″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Symmons Plains
Launceston, TAS
Link: http://www.motorsportstas.com.au/tracks/symmons-plains
Symmons Plains International Raceway is located on Midland Highway some 30km south of Launceston.
The track is known for several interesting features including its very long back straight with a kink, its extremely tight hairpin bend at the end of the front straight and the unusual placement of the original start/finish line and grid that was on a curve.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”480″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Morgan Park
Warwick, QLD
Link: http://www.morganparkraceway.com.au/index.html
Morgan Park Raceway is a motorsports complex located at Old Stanthorpe Road near Warwick, in Queensland, Australia and is operated by the Warwick District Sporting Car Club Inc. The venue features a race circuit with five different layouts.
The initial 730 metre race circuit was constructed in 1968 and the first race meeting was staged in March of the following year. The circuit was bitumen sealed in 1997 and an extension to 1.2 kilometres was subsequently undertaken. A further extension to 2.1 kilometres was completed in 2002 and the venue hosted its first Queensland Motor Racing Championships round the same year.
The new 3.0-kilometre layout was first used on the weekend of 14/15 August 2010 for a round of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”479″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Mallala Motor Sport Park
Mallala, SA
Link: http://www.mallala.com/321go/index.html
The Mallala Race Circuit, as it was originally known, was established on the site of the former RAAF Base Mallala. The land was purchased from the Royal Australian Air Force at public auction in 1961 by a group of enthusiasts seeking to create a replacement for the Port Wakefield Circuit.
The original lap distance of 3.38 km was reduced to 2.601 km in late 1964 when Bosch Curve was moved closer to the Dunlop Curve Grandstand, thus removing the north eastern leg of the circuit.
Mallala served as South Australia’s home of motor sport throughout the sixties and it hosted a round of the Australian Drivers’ Championship each year from 1961 to 1971.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”461″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text 0=””]
Collie Kostecki Motorplex
Collie, WA
Link: http://www.motoringsouthwest.org.au/
Collie Motorplex is the second of only two permanent race tracks in Western Australia and can easily challenge its competitor for thrills and adrenaline.
Favored by many for its fast corners, clear visibility and excellent grip levels this track still keeps even seasoned competitors on their toes. This track is a must for the competition season as the venue continues to develop and grow into another great home for WA Motorsport.
How To Get There?
Collie is located approximately 200km South of Perth 59km inland of Bunbury.
Collie Motorplex is approximately 14 km’s east of Collie. Starting from the Town of Collie, head out of town East, along Coalfields Rd. Watching for the signs, Patterson Rd is the first right after the Shire of Collie Building. Continue along Patterson Rd as this changes name to Preston Rd. After approximatly 3.5km turn left onto Collie South East Rd. A further 3km up is Powerhouse Rd, turn Left. Collie Motorplex is clearly visible and located on the right around 6.5km down Powerhouse Rd.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”458″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row]