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Encyclopedia > Adelaide Street Circuit
Adelaide Street Circuit
Location Adelaide, Australia
Time zone GMT +9½
Major events F1, V8 Supercars, ALMS
Circuit Length 3.78 kilometres (2.35 miles)
Turns 14
Lap Record 1'15.381 / 180.523 km/h (Damon Hill, Williams Renault, 1993)
Adelaide GP circuit pole position
Adelaide GP circuit pole position
Senna Chicane viewed from Pit Straight
Senna Chicane viewed from Pit Straight

The Adelaide Street Circuit ( 34°55′45″S, 138°37′15″E) is a temporary race track in the East Parklands adjacent to the central business district of the city of Adelaide in South Australia. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ... For alternate meanings of GMT, see GMT (disambiguation). ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... V8 Supercars in action The V8 Supercar is a category of touring car racing that evolved in Australia in the early 1990s. ... Alms Bag taken from some Tapestry in Orleans, Fifteenth Century. ... km redirects here. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960 in London) is a British former racing driver from England. ... Not to be confused with Frank Williams Racing Cars, formed by Frank Williams 1967. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 527 pixelsFull resolution (1796 × 1182 pixel, file size: 267 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Adelaide Street Circuit User:John Dalton... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 527 pixelsFull resolution (1796 × 1182 pixel, file size: 267 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Adelaide Street Circuit User:John Dalton... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 527 pixelsFull resolution (1796 × 1182 pixel, file size: 232 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Adelaide Street Circuit User:John Dalton... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 527 pixelsFull resolution (1796 × 1182 pixel, file size: 232 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Adelaide Street Circuit User:John Dalton... A race track (or racetrack), is a purpose-built facility for the conducting of races. ... The Adelaide Parklands are the parklands that surround the City of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ... Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 11  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $59,819 (5th)  - Product per capita  $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  1,558,200 (5th)  - Density  1. ...


The track has hosted eleven Formula One Australian Grand Prix events from 1985 to 1995 and an American Le Mans sports car race on New Year's Eve in 2000 (The Race of a Thousand Years) on the long form (3.78 km) of the track. It has hosted an annual V8 Supercar race called the Adelaide 500 since 1999 on a shorter variant of the track. Cars race clockwise around the circuit. Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Promotional poster for the first Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide in 1985. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) is a series of automobile races, founded in 1999 by Don Panoz, and sanctioned by IMSA. The American Le Mans Series utilizes the rules and regulations of the Automobile Club de lOuest, which organizes the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, to... New Years Eve is December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, and the day before New Years Day. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... V8 Supercars is a touring car racing category. ... The Adelaide 500, commonly known as the Clipsal 500, is an annual racing carnival for Touring Cars held in the east end of Adelaide on a shortened form of the Adelaide Street Circuit, the former Australian Grand Prix track. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...


Memorable Formula 1 moments

1986: Nigel Mansell blows his tire on Brabham straight, destroying his world title chance. Luckily he manages to drive the car to safety and avoid a heavy impact with the wall. Alain Prost won the title after his first victory in Adelaide.
1991: In the shortest race of Formula 1 history, the race is stopped after 14 laps. Race winner Ayrton Senna had waved furiously from his cockpit that the conditions were too wet to race.
1994: For the second time the world championship was decided in Adelaide. Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher pulled away from the rest and closely battled for the lead. On lap 35, Michael Schumacher goes wide and damages his car. He regains the lead but is vulnerable for the next corner. Hill decides to go for it and sneak on the inside but Schumacher holds his line. The two touch wheels and Schumacher is lifted in the air, slams into the tire barrier and retires. Damon goes out with a broken suspension. The title is won by Schumacher in very controversial circumstances.


The Circuit

The pit straight is inside the Victoria Park horse racing track. The buildings and grandstands are temporary and removed so that spectators can see the whole horse racetrack during the rest of the year. At the end of the straight, drivers negotiate the Senna Chicane and a left turn to go uphill on a short straight on Wakefield Road to East Terrace. They then have a series of rightangle turns along East Terrace. The short form of the track has three of these, followed by another right turn onto Bartels Road back across the parklands. The long form continues with another left-right-right to Jones Straight (known as Rundle Road for the rest of the year). Then there is a fast right-hand sweeper onto the longest straight, Brabham Straight, on Dequetteville Terrace. The short form of the track rejoins halfway down this straight, so the Bartels Road straight is longest on that layout. In 2007 this was re-named Brock Straight. At the end of Brabham Straight is a righthand hairpin turn (at the Britannia Roundabout) onto Wakefield Road, then a left turn and long sweeping righthand curve back into Victoria Park behind the pit area. The lap concludes with another right-hand hairpin onto the pit straight. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. ... Victoria Park is a park located in the Southeastern Parklands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ... Ayrton Senna da Silva (pronounced / /, March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994) was a Brazilian three-times Formula One world champion. ... The Ford chicane on Le Mans A chicane is a sequence of tight serpentine curves (usually an S-shape curve) in a roadway, used in auto racing and on city streets to slow cars. ... Alan Jones MBE (born November 2, 1946) is an Australian former Formula One racer. ... Sir John Arthur Jack Brabham, OBE (born April 2, 1926) is an Australian racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966. ... Peter Geoffrey Brock AM (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006) otherwise known as Peter Perfect, The King of the Mountain or simply as Brocky was one of Australias best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. ... Road D2204 ascends to the Col de Braus using hairpin bends in the Alpes Maritimes in the French Alps ( ) The kind of hair pin (bobby pin) from which a hairpin turn gets its name Some of the 48 hairpin turns near the top of the northern ramp of the Stilfserjoch...


When the idea of holding a Grand Prix in the parklands was first raised, there was some opposition from people concerned about environmental damage, as the parks have a number of mature trees with birds and possums living in them. There is no larger wildlife in the parklands, as they are heavily developed. These concerns seem to have been proven unfounded, as spectators often watch magpies and rosellas when there is nothing happening on the track. Indeed, the total road traffic during race weekend is significantly less than there is any other day of the year. who cares though]] island species, have also lost the ability to fly. ... For the Western Hemisphere marsupial, see opossum. ... Binomial name Gymnorhina tibicen Latham, 1802 The Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen is a medium-sized black and white bird, closely related to the butcherbirds and currawongs in the Artamidae family. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...


The race meetings have the feature race, but also a number of races for "lesser" categories, making three or four days of entertainment for the crowds of spectators, without long periods of boredom that could occur if only practice and qualifying for the main event preceded it. Many of the events also have after-race concerts on a stage erected for the purpose on a playing field in the middle of the track.


The stadium section will be reprofiled during the upcoming years to increase the flow of the track and add overtaking opportunities. The work is due to start after the 2007 V8 Supercars race, with the 2008 race still being run on the old track and the new configuration used for the first time during the 2009 race.


External links

Coordinates: 34°55′50″S, 138°37′14″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Australian Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (661 words)
A notable venue in the 1950s was a road circuit at Albert Park in Melbourne, for many years.
Australia became part of the F1 world championship in 1985 with the last race of the season held on the street circuit in Adelaide.
The circuit, whilst not as ridiculously tight as Monaco, was notoriously tough on drivers and gearboxes.
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