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Adelaide Street Circuit | Address: | Panoz Motorsport Australia Pty Ltd
Ground Floor
186 Pulteney St
Adelaide
South Australia 5000 | | | | Telephone: | (+61) 8 8232 8688 | | | | Fax: | (+61) 8 8232 4241 | | | | Country: | Australia  |
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The Adelaide street circuit was one of the most popular street circuits f1 has ever had. The track, combined with the party atmosphere of the Grand Prix, has always lent itself to great racing. Adelaide was a track where one could overtake, a rarity for street circuits. The track had been used to host the Australian Grand Prix before it's first F1 race, but it was a lower formula race. The first Australian Grand Prix in 1985 was a success, and it has remained popular ever since.
Adelaide has been the sight of many thrilling title battles over the years. In 1986 three men, now F1 legends, had a shot at the drivers title. Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, and Alain Prost entered the race with a shot at the title. After tyre problems for both Mansell and Piquet, Prost managed to pip the title. In 1994 Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill entered the Australian GP with the title on the line. After a controversial colission took both men out, Schumacher won the drivers title.
The track itself was a hybrid of streets and a park. The start/finish straight was in a public park as the drivers accelerated away. The first corner was a high speed chicane known as the Senna Chicane, which led the cars onto Wakefield road. The drivers brake hard for wakefield corner, a 90 degree right hander that leads toward a 90 degree left hander, which leads to Flinders street. An eqaul length short straight leads to a 90 degree right hander, sight of the Schumacher-Hill incident. From there the drivers accelerate, then have a chicane, before a 90 degree right hander leading onto the fastest part of the track. The drivers accelerate down Jones straight, go through the flat-out right-hander at brewery bend and down the long Brabham straight. This leads to the Dequetteville Hairpin, the slowest corner on the track, and a prime overtaking spot. From then the cars go back into the park, there is a quick left-hand sweep before braking for a tight left hander. Then the cars go right into the park, sweeping onto the "race course" and braking for the final turn, a hairpin, that leads back onto the start-finsh straight.
After the 1995 Australian GP, a race which saw Mika Hakkinen nearly killed in a practice accident, The race was moved to Melbourne for 1996, with a hope of getting a Pacific Grand Prix at Adelaide. The second Australian race never materialized and the Australian GP has been in melbourne ever since. Adelaide still hosts a popular Australian V8 supercars race every year.
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| Seasons: | 11 (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) | | |
Created by: system
last modification: Thursday 28 of September, 2006 [15:23:19 UTC] by senor_soup
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