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The Albert Park Circuit is a motorsport street circuit around Albert Park Lake in the suburb of Albert Park in Melbourne.It is used annually as a circuit for the Formula One Australian Grand Prix, the supporting Supercars Championship Melbourne SuperSprint and other associated support races.
The Australian Grand Prix is an annual motor racing event which is under contract to host Formula One until 2035. [clarification needed] [1] One of the oldest surviving motorsport competitions held in Australia, the Grand Prix has moved frequently with 23 different venues having been used since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928.
During Adelaide's era hosting the Australian Grand Prix, the circuit hosted annual non-championship races for the Australian Touring Car Championship. From 1999 until 2020 , the track hosted an annual Supercars race, the Adelaide 500 , (in most years a 2 x 250 km race) on a shorter, 3.219 km (2.000 mi) variant of the track.
In 1979, the Australian Grand Prix was held for the first and so far only time at Wanneroo Raceway which coincided with the opening of the new pits and paddock area to the west of the circuit. The Grand Prix was won by South Australian Johnnie Walker driving a Lola T332 Formula 5000 .
The 1961 Australian Grand Prix headlined the circuits second meeting with Lex Davison winning his fourth and last AGP driving a Cooper T51 Coventry Climax FPF. [5] The original lap distance of 3.379 km (2.100 mi) was reduced to 2.601 km (1.616 mi) in late 1964 [ 5 ] when Bosch Curve was moved closer to the Dunlop Curve Grandstand, [ 6 ] thus ...
Warwick Farm Raceway was a motor racing facility which was in operation from 1960 to 1973. [1] Warwick Farm Raceway hosted numerous major events during its life such as the Australian Grand Prix and rounds of both the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Tasman Series.
F1 highlights from the Australian Grand Prix: 06:33, Kieran Jackson. Highlights of the race in the UK will be aired on free-to-air Channel 4 at 12:30pm (GMT) on Sunday. TOP-10 FOR THE AUSTRALIAN ...
The most popular event is the Australian Grand Prix, currently held at Albert Park in Melbourne.It is attended by more than 300,000 spectators per year and attracts free-to-air metropolitan television ratings, of over 1 million viewers, [citation needed] and is televised internationally as part of the Formula One World Championship.