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Australia · since 1985

Adelaide Street Circuit

Adelaide

There is no sketch for this circuit yet.

3.780km per lap
16Corners
11Grands Prix
1985First Grand Prix
2Wins Prost
Lap record1:15.381Damon Hill, 1993 →

By the numbers

A crash means a race retirement from an accident, collision or spin. Starts exclude non-qualifications, non-starts and exclusions.
Wins from pole45 %5 of 11 races
Different winners8in 11 races
Retirement rate57 %158 retirements from 279 starts
Crashes5520 % of all starts
Win from furthest back7Nelson Piquet, from grid position 7, 1990Analysis →

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.

Source: Wikipedia, “Adelaide Street Circuit”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Moments

  1. 1985Keke Rosberg won for Williams in the first Formula One race at Adelaide, which was also the final round of the season.
  2. 1986Alain Prost won for McLaren in the race that settled the Drivers' Championship.
  3. 1994Nigel Mansell won for Williams in a race that decided both the Drivers' and the Constructors' titles.
  4. 1995Damon Hill won for Williams in the last Formula One race held at Adelaide.

Data: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk, CC BY 4.0 licence.

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