By the numbers
A crash means a race retirement from an accident, collision or spin. Starts exclude non-qualifications, non-starts and exclusions.History
The Adelaide Street Circuit, also known as the Adelaide Parklands Circuit, is a temporary street circuit in the East Parklands, right next to the central business district of Adelaide in South Australia. The Grand Prix layout is 3.78 kilometres long, has 16 corners and runs clockwise. The buildings and grandstands were temporary and were taken down every year.
Adelaide was given a round of the 1985 Formula One World Championship in October 1984, and the firm Macmahon Holdings then built the track. The first race in 1985 was also the final round of the season. Eleven Australian Grands Prix were held here up to 1995. After that the event passed to Melbourne and moved to the Albert Park Street Circuit.
The pit straight in Victoria Park is about 500 metres long. At its end sits the Senna Chicane, named after Ayrton Senna following his death at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Rundle Road was named after Alan Jones in 1987. The straight along Dequetteville Terrace, roughly 900 metres long, was named after Jack Brabham for Formula One. Here the turbo cars of 1985 to 1988 topped 320 km/h. A hairpin at the Britannia Roundabout sends drivers back onto Wakefield Road, and the lap ends with another hairpin onto the pit straight. The track is largely flat, with its elevation ranging from 36 to 53 metres.
From 1999 to 2020, and again from 2022, a shortened 3.219 kilometre version has been used for the Adelaide 500 Supercars race. When the O-Bahn busway tunnel was built in 2017, turns 7 and 8 were shifted about 100 metres to the south, although the lap length stayed the same.
Moments
- 1985Keke Rosberg won for Williams in the first Formula One race at Adelaide, which was also the final round of the season.
- 1986Alain Prost won for McLaren in the race that settled the Drivers' Championship.
- 1994Nigel Mansell won for Williams in a race that decided both the Drivers' and the Constructors' titles.
- 1995Damon Hill won for Williams in the last Formula One race held at Adelaide.
Circuit since 1985
- since 19853.780 km
Most wins
Click a bar to see every win here with year, team and analysis.
Data: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk, CC BY 4.0 licence.