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One year later, Whincup won his 106th championship race at the Sydney event, surpassing Lowndes' record of 105 wins. [13] In 2018, the event format changed to feature a single 300 kilometre race at night, the first event under lights in the championship since the 2011 Yas V8 400 and the first in Australia since the 1997 Calder Park round.
The Speedway Grand Prix of Australia is a speedway event that is part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. The inaugural event, run on a 400 metres (440 yards) long temporary track at Stadium Australia in Sydney , was won by American rider Greg Hancock , from England 's Scott Nicholls and Australian Jason Crump in 2002 .
Sydney International Speedway, known as Sydney II as its successor to the original circuit, is a dirt track racing venue held near the shutdown area of Sydney Dragway in Eastern Creek. Like the original, it is about 500m (0.311 miles) in length (489m at the lowest line, 511m near the wall).
Sydney Motorsport Park (known until May 2012 as Eastern Creek International Raceway) is a motorsport circuit located on Brabham Drive, Eastern Creek (40-kilometres west of the Sydney CBD), [1] New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Western Sydney International Dragway.
The Australia national speedway team are one of the major teams in international motorcycle speedway with the country regarded as the birthplace of the sport in the 1920s. The current team is managed by former rider Mark Lemon, (who also managers the Australia national under-21 speedway team) and captained by 2012 World Champion Chris Holder.
The Australian Sprintcar Championship is a dirt track racing championship held each year to determine the Australian national champion for winged sprint car racing.The single championship meeting runs in either late January or early February and has been held each year since the Windsor RSL Speedway in Sydney hosted the first championship in 1963.
Sydney Dragway, also known as WSID for its former name, Western Sydney International Dragway, is a $30 million, purpose built quarter mile drag racing facility that opened in February, 2004. WSID is based on international specifications [ 1 ] and combines the best in competitor, spectator and corporate facilities. [ 2 ]
Holt, originally from Sydney, began racing Speedcars in the early 1960s and was one of the leading competitors at the Sydney Showground during Australian speedway's "golden era". Unlike other national championship meetings in Australian speedway racing, overseas drivers are permitted in the Australian Speedcar Championship.