Hello. Relating to the return of the Adelaide 500 and the street circuit; I am the person who kickstarted the movement to save the event with an actual protest outside of SA Parliament House. The reason why I am so passionate about this event, is because I was diagnosed with Autism at age 5 and was also non-verbal. Essentially I wasn't supposed to do anything in life. Around the same time I was diagnosed, I went to the Adelaide 500 for the first time in 2005. I went behind the paddock to sitwas the place where I spoke my first full sentence at age 5 to anyone, that being Mark Skaife. I looked up at at him and my words to him were and I quote: "I'm gonna drive your car." I found my voice thanks to the Adelaide 500 and from that day, I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life: Be involved in Motorsport. Because of this moment, my parents were committed to helping me achieve my dreams of being involved in the world of Motorsport. I got my first Go-Kart two years after my first Adelaide 500, and I began racing 3 years after that, which culminated with me racing against State and National Karting champions, Current SuperUte driver: Craig Dontas (Who I'm now friends with) and former Super2 driver: Dan Day. I even raced against Jack Doohan in the formative years of his career in karting, who as we all know is now competing in Formula 2. The 500 was also the best place for networking with some of the sport's most successful individuals and teams. I was at the forefront of Variety's promotional material when they were the official charity of the event in 2015, 10 years after my first trek to the street circuit. The 2015 weekend even saw me meet up with Ex-Toro Rosso driver turned Formula E Champion: Jean Eric Vergne. Three years prior, Variety got me a hotlap with Steven Richards in his Porsche Carrera Cup car at Mallala in the days following the 2012 event, while I was at that event. I was only 12 at the time, and I didn't even freak out once. Heck, I was commentating the whole time. Needless to say, when it was announced that the 500 was being cancelled, I was absolutely destroyed, I was going to kick the parliament doors in demanding answers. While that didn't actually happen I said to myself: "No, this isn't how the story of this circuit ends." And from that day, I was determined to help bring the race home. I began a movement to revive South Australia's greatest achievement in motorsport. In my opinion, it was a greater achievement than the Grand Prix. Not only that, but my movement was supported by the now current Premier of South Australia: Peter Malinauskas. Throughout the Save/Bring Back the Adelaide 500 events run by the Motoring community in SA as well as SA Labor, I got the opportunities to connect further with the South Australian born Supercar drivers, and have even made friends with them as well as some of their parents. I did all of this, because I want the new generation to have the same opportunities to flourish and succeed as I did. Thanks to the Adelaide 500, I went from a non-verbal five year old with Autism, to a 22 year old overachieving Engineering student at university with opportunities to finally realise my dreams of working with a Supercars team waiting in the wings, who just happens to have autism. Thank you for posting this video. The moments that this circuit has provided the world with, both big and small should be cherished by everyone. And its return deserves nothing less than the highest level of attention from motor racing community.
And thank YOU for your comment, and your dedication to the event! Huge props to you for following your dreams and giving your all to motorsport in South Australia.
One final thing to mention. I was a Variety Show of Hearts Scholarship holder for motorsport six times, hence why I mentioned Variety. I was the only scholarship holder for Karting.
My barber insists that the State election was won the moment Labor promised to bring back the race. Apparently all his customers told him that was the reason they were going to vote for Labor. So on top of all your other accomplishments you can add, over throwing the government!
Glad to see the Adelaide Le Mans getting a mention! My dad was in one of the support races for it (which was pretty cool in its own right, rookies were taught to race by experienced drivers and my dad was taught by Vern Schuppan of all people), but ever since going to watch him race and seeing McNish's crocodile car while I was there it's been my favourite race car livery of all time (and the reason I have 77 in my usernames lol).
Actually as an aside, if anyone has the VHS of the full event highlights (not just the race, that exists online but the full highlights don't) could you please make a rip of it and post it somewhere! Our old VHS wore out many years ago from me watching it too much as a kid and I've never been able to find either the VHS or a rip of it since.
As a South Australian who grew up watching the likes of Skaifey and Ambrose tearing up the streets of Adelaide, you've done an absolutely fantastic job with this video! You've fully captured every detail of the circuit itself and highlighted its history in a way that does it a lot of justice. I'm so glad the 500 is back, and that we have people like you to talk about this and other brilliant tracks, Rhys.
Thank you for making this. I've never celebrated harder after an election than this year, and so happy they followed through. There's even a rumour that the Premier made a sneaky bid for the F1 contract! Even though it obviously didn't happen, God I appreciate the effort. We can never, ever lose this track!
The 1st Adelaide Grand Prix at the street circuit was in 1985 won by Keke Rosberg and it was also Niki Lauda's final race,I was there and was 13yrs old at the time. Unforgettable experience
It has been forever since I have driven a game in anger around this street circuit, it was a track that will easily go in my top five all time favourite street circuits and one day, I'd love to see F1, for a lack of a better use of words, come home. Yes, Melbourne has now established itself as the home of F1 in Australia but it all started at Adelaide and one day, one day, I myself would love to see it come back
First contact with this race in toca race driver 3 for psp, the fact that it is the first race track you race in australia made me realised how awsome it is, Just like all street circuits in toca rd3
This is a brilliant video detailing the rich history of the Adelaide Street Circuit. This video alone speaks volumes as to why the Adelaide Street Circuit should have never been axed in the first place. Well done. Lets all hope that this place remains part of Australian Motorsport for many, many years to come.
Love coming back to this video so much. Considering the trauma that Rhys went through in 2022, this video stands as a testament to his video-making skill.
It's such a great circuit. I love driving through the city and getting a green light from Rundle Rd to Dequetteville Tce. It gives you an idea how fast they'd go down there ... tempted to floor it lol
Grew up with the F1 race and was sadly right at Turn 8 when the Cooper accident happened. Got to race in the Adelaide Motorsport Festival in 2015/16 which uses just the Victoria Park section of the track. Can confirm the Senna Chicane is a very good piece of road.
I really enjoy the love and enthusiasm you're putting in your videos. That, plus they're fun and informative. Just wanted to leave that one here. Keep these coming :)
Absolutely love Adelaide even though I’m a melburneian myself just everything about it is perfect to me weather it’s open wheel or in a touring car just love it it’s so massively underrated it’s nearly criminal
This was bloody great Rhys. I think you could make a great series of these videos for every Australian Supercars circuit. The combination of track guide and history lesson works really well.
Great video! Man, I wish they’d bring back the GP layout, or as close as possible to the GP layout (note that it would be pretty easy to resurrect Brewery Corner - there’s nothing there but grass). It was a tremendous circuit and I think the Supercars version loses some challenge. Plus Turn 8, even with some changes, is still a very dangerous corner, and replacing that challenge with the challenges of the GP circuit would improve safety.
I went to the Adelaide GP from 86' till 90..it was simply the best viewing circuit any motoring spectator would love. Just a couple of my highlights... In the 86' I parked myself within the S's..where the F1'a had to slow down so you could see the "whites of the drivers eyes"...brilliant.. Then in the last 2 years I parked my self in the first stand out of the Stag Hotel corner..the F1's would come into Stag in 2nd, get through the corner..straighten up and launch down the straight for all it was worth. A spectator could get down onto the fenceline..peer through the wire, really catch and smell the action. Brocky coming through Stag on 2 wheels hassled by Perkins and the rest of the pack was a highlight.. I think it was in 88' the year when it rained..I was down on the fence line..with about 300 of my closest friends..and qualifying was just to happen. Then it rained...a couple of brief showers and all hell broke loose.. Prost wanted to pull the pin and many of the other F1 drivers were on the fence. Then out came Senna...he tip toed through the lap a couple of times..the rain held off..he decided to crank it up. He was the only driver out on the track..and you could hear the car for miles as its' engine sound echoed off the surrounding building...this was going to be Senna giving it his all in the wet.. He came out of Stag a fraction wide and slightly sideways but some how gathered the car up..straightened it and just send it. It was Senna at Monaco all over again..but here he was in Adelaide Australia muscling it around a street circuit..before my very eyes. You could see the "puffs" of flame come out of the exhaust pipes as it was overcast and the ambient light was dim... I counted those puffs..there was six of them.. Senna had changed gear 6 times before his car reached under the first pedestrian overpass along that straight. That pedestrian overpass was located 200mtrs from the exit of Stag Corner..you have to remember..the drivers were changing gears "manually"..none of this "flappy paddle bullshite"...the three peddle foot dance and a short hand gear lever..and Senna was a master of it. Then on the Sunday..out came Fangio driving the Merc Silver Arrow he drove to his world championship during the early 50's..all with his leather helmet and flimsy driving suit..he was suppose to do a demonstration lap...but Fangio had other ideas. He pushed the Merc hard into Stag corner on those "cheese cutter tyres"..all the time wrestling that monster bloody wooden steering wheel as I saw his elbows stick out from the edges of the drivers cockpit. His head was cocked sideways as his neck muscles fought the G forces...Fangio was not mucking around this time....he was "on it". Then give the Merc its' head and barrelled down the straight with a roar from that beautiful supercharged straight eight...when he got back to the Pits...Fangio's time for a lap was about 8sec slower than the last F1 qualifier from the previous day.. I was very sad when the F1's moved to Melbourne.. I was hoping against hope that Victoria and SA could come together to share the cost and alternate the F1 championship between the racetracks..because it is the Australian GP after all. But is was not to be..Australian State politics..what can I say.. I have never been to Albert Park..because Adelaide was the best F1 street track a motoring sport spectator could wish for. Albert Park doesn't come even close to Adelaide for "up and close" F1 action. Memories....
Don’t want to be that dick that makes everything political but…thank you Labor for keeping this piece of history in tact and not just a memory like has befallen: Amaroo, Warwick Farm, Longford, and of course Oran Park among others
@@CaptainParallax According to Racenet Sandown is safe until 2027 thankfully. (Its just one obscure outlet tho so take the report with a grain of salt)
For me it is a shame that the Adelaide 500 A, use the shorten version of this circuit, and B, is was opted to have 2, 250km race's. If the Adelaide 500 used the full Grand Prix circuit, and a single 500km endurance round. It would be an even better race.
What an epic video about Adelaide Street Circuit, great stuff! Everything covered. I hope that everyone who reminisces the f1 (or v8's) in adelaide watches this, it's gold. Do you live in Adelaide SouthPawRacer? I love how they revived it as well, but we need to get another category alongside the supercars, like s5000 or WEC, Asian lemans or even formula e. Kudos to Malinauskas for trying with f1 of all things. They need to get the non supercar fans there or else i'm worried attendance numbers will keep going down. But the fact they (government of the time) went from starting to sell the infrastructure and wanting to rip up permanent section, to now having event fully revived with 5 year deal is a blessing.
Nice history and overview! I actually prefer the current, shortened version of the circuit, primarily because of that fast sweeting corner. Getting it right in a fast car in the sims is such a rewarding experience.
I've never fully understood why street and road courses have never implemented SAFER barriers in corners like turn 8. Yes, it would be a slightly more intense logistical and monetary undertaking than the corners as they exist now, but it seems to me that a system like that would be a minimum safety requirement in this day and age.
SAFER barriers will catch and stop a car which you really don't want in turn 8. Any cars following will have a car instantly stopped on the only racing line though the turn.
@@matgee8892 SAFER barriers don't stop cars. You're thinking of either tire barriers or Tecpro barriers. SAFER barriers are what are typically around ovals, and recently, turn 14 at Zandvoort. SAFER barriers flex and return to their intended shape after an impact.
@@moperry8399 Ah yes i forgot about the NASCAR/Indycar barriers. I was thinking of tech pro. I guess they are happy with the re-profiling but i agree it would be worthwhile to add extra protection if the technology is available. Supercars is the highest level motor sport in the country so it should be using the highest level safety tech available. Perhaps there is some reason SAFER wouldn't work but i dont know enough about the implementation to be sure.
@@matgee8892 I've thought the same thing. Turn 8 isn't that far removed from an oval turn so can't imagine why it wouldn't work. I don't think it's cheap though.
As an American, who has only been paying attention to Australian motorsport since 2015, I can easily say this is my second favorite Australian circuit. Bathurst is definitely #1 (and I think you can argue it’s #1 in the world) but Adelaide is an uncontested #2 for me.
I'm glad Adelaide's back but I just wish that it being added back in to the Supercars calendar this year didn't come at the expense of Newcastle, which had already been postponed from being the opener thanks to Covid. I like the idea of Adelaide being the final round of the season but surely they could've added it in as a 14th round, there is space in November. On another note, I think it'd be cool to see a Formula E race held here. Favourite F1 moment in Adelaide: probably the controversial ones, i.e. Mansell's blowout in 1986 and Hill vs Schumacher in 1994 (both of which are bittersweet of course for a Briton such as myself). The maddest moment, definitely the entire 1991 race. Favourite Supercars moment in Adelaide: Scott McLaughlin vs Jamie Whincup for P2 on the final lap of the second race of the 2014 event.
As a local, I always quietly wish for either this track or Mallala to be featured in racing games, but accept a small victory when Bathurst is included
Simply the Best! I'd feel that I'd make a Tina Turner Shout Out over the Ayrton Senna dedication which clawed at Adelaide's F1 Stay and Tina Turner's Recording Career (Which she later beat the Backstreet Boys in Ticket Sales Worldwide in 1999.)
Probably better to have the Supercars at the end of the season. I used to work in nearby Rundle St and in March it was impossible to do anything at that time; you had the Fringe Festival in Rymill and Rundle Park, and literally next to it you had the Clipsal 500, two major events at the same time next to each other. Then you also had other festivals and so on (hence the term "Mad March").
Is there a reason why after the 2008 tragedy turn 8 wasn't reverted back to the original hard braking zone it was before 2002 or was it simply that it just wasn't thought about?
Gotta say, if someone was side-by-side on the inside but still "trailing" by definition of having the front of the car behind the other for T8, I doubt that car would be the one to pull out. But that turn could really use safer barriers. Not to mention, why where the old barriers nearly in a 90° angle to the track and not curved like on the current version, if the AMS layout is anything to go by?
We weren't screwed over. The government at the time didn't consider it to be in the best interest to spend money retaining the race after the collapse of StateBank. Absolutely moronic move and it haunts me to this day.
3:43 and for the last 2 years, that's been relegated to a covid testing site. I've sat on the main straight in my Mitsubishi waiting for a nose swap twice in the last month haha
i dont care about touring cars (heavy, slow, boring) but as a F1 circuit Adelaide was awesome from 85-95 - coinciding perfectly with the golden years of F1.
Hi my name is Tim O’Gorman. My Dad is Bill and it pains me that Dad has done so much for Australian motorsports and had no recognition for what he has done for the love of the sport. I’m going to put some stuff together from when he was a racer till now. He’s big part of getting Wakefield Park being reopened just for the the sport and community I’m going to get some content 3:37 together. Are you keen to get it out there??
And how good was the first Adl500 back!!! I highly doubt it'll be added and I'm not a religious person but I pray this gets added to iracing.... would be a banger
Hello. Relating to the return of the Adelaide 500 and the street circuit; I am the person who kickstarted the movement to save the event with an actual protest outside of SA Parliament House.
The reason why I am so passionate about this event, is because I was diagnosed with Autism at age 5 and was also non-verbal. Essentially I wasn't supposed to do anything in life. Around the same time I was diagnosed, I went to the Adelaide 500 for the first time in 2005. I went behind the paddock to sitwas the place where I spoke my first full sentence at age 5 to anyone, that being Mark Skaife. I looked up at at him and my words to him were and I quote: "I'm gonna drive your car."
I found my voice thanks to the Adelaide 500 and from that day, I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life: Be involved in Motorsport.
Because of this moment, my parents were committed to helping me achieve my dreams of being involved in the world of Motorsport. I got my first Go-Kart two years after my first Adelaide 500, and I began racing 3 years after that, which culminated with me racing against State and National Karting champions, Current SuperUte driver: Craig Dontas (Who I'm now friends with) and former Super2 driver: Dan Day. I even raced against Jack Doohan in the formative years of his career in karting, who as we all know is now competing in Formula 2.
The 500 was also the best place for networking with some of the sport's most successful individuals and teams. I was at the forefront of Variety's promotional material when they were the official charity of the event in 2015, 10 years after my first trek to the street circuit. The 2015 weekend even saw me meet up with Ex-Toro Rosso driver turned Formula E Champion: Jean Eric Vergne. Three years prior, Variety got me a hotlap with Steven Richards in his Porsche Carrera Cup car at Mallala in the days following the 2012 event, while I was at that event. I was only 12 at the time, and I didn't even freak out once. Heck, I was commentating the whole time.
Needless to say, when it was announced that the 500 was being cancelled, I was absolutely destroyed, I was going to kick the parliament doors in demanding answers. While that didn't actually happen I said to myself: "No, this isn't how the story of this circuit ends." And from that day, I was determined to help bring the race home. I began a movement to revive South Australia's greatest achievement in motorsport. In my opinion, it was a greater achievement than the Grand Prix. Not only that, but my movement was supported by the now current Premier of South Australia: Peter Malinauskas. Throughout the Save/Bring Back the Adelaide 500 events run by the Motoring community in SA as well as SA Labor, I got the opportunities to connect further with the South Australian born Supercar drivers, and have even made friends with them as well as some of their parents.
I did all of this, because I want the new generation to have the same opportunities to flourish and succeed as I did. Thanks to the Adelaide 500, I went from a non-verbal five year old with Autism, to a 22 year old overachieving Engineering student at university with opportunities to finally realise my dreams of working with a Supercars team waiting in the wings, who just happens to have autism.
Thank you for posting this video. The moments that this circuit has provided the world with, both big and small should be cherished by everyone. And its return deserves nothing less than the highest level of attention from motor racing community.
And thank YOU for your comment, and your dedication to the event! Huge props to you for following your dreams and giving your all to motorsport in South Australia.
@FreeBirb I went to uni for engineering with him last year, at the time I believe he was still karting
Thank you for your hard work keeping this track alive, I love watching the supercar race here in UK
One final thing to mention. I was a Variety Show of Hearts Scholarship holder for motorsport six times, hence why I mentioned Variety. I was the only scholarship holder for Karting.
My barber insists that the State election was won the moment Labor promised to bring back the race. Apparently all his customers told him that was the reason they were going to vote for Labor. So on top of all your other accomplishments you can add, over throwing the government!
I love how much love Automobilista still gets from premier content creators. It's such a great, such an underrated, such a powerful sim.
Ikr
Glad to see the Adelaide Le Mans getting a mention! My dad was in one of the support races for it (which was pretty cool in its own right, rookies were taught to race by experienced drivers and my dad was taught by Vern Schuppan of all people), but ever since going to watch him race and seeing McNish's crocodile car while I was there it's been my favourite race car livery of all time (and the reason I have 77 in my usernames lol).
Actually as an aside, if anyone has the VHS of the full event highlights (not just the race, that exists online but the full highlights don't) could you please make a rip of it and post it somewhere! Our old VHS wore out many years ago from me watching it too much as a kid and I've never been able to find either the VHS or a rip of it since.
The best post race concert too. Great night.
What a beauty. Good Stuff!
As a South Australian who grew up watching the likes of Skaifey and Ambrose tearing up the streets of Adelaide, you've done an absolutely fantastic job with this video!
You've fully captured every detail of the circuit itself and highlighted its history in a way that does it a lot of justice. I'm so glad the 500 is back, and that we have people like you to talk about this and other brilliant tracks, Rhys.
Thank you for making this. I've never celebrated harder after an election than this year, and so happy they followed through. There's even a rumour that the Premier made a sneaky bid for the F1 contract! Even though it obviously didn't happen, God I appreciate the effort. We can never, ever lose this track!
The 1st Adelaide Grand Prix at the street circuit was in 1985 won by Keke Rosberg and it was also Niki Lauda's final race,I was there and was 13yrs old at the time. Unforgettable experience
It has been forever since I have driven a game in anger around this street circuit, it was a track that will easily go in my top five all time favourite street circuits and one day, I'd love to see F1, for a lack of a better use of words, come home. Yes, Melbourne has now established itself as the home of F1 in Australia but it all started at Adelaide and one day, one day, I myself would love to see it come back
First contact with this race in toca race driver 3 for psp, the fact that it is the first race track you race in australia made me realised how awsome it is,
Just like all street circuits in toca rd3
The roadworks were certainly needed for safety and to add the bus infrastructure. I was saddened the day the banana bend curbing was removed ...
I used to drive up on it a little bit whenever I went through there 😎
big fan of that Southany Pawtano video
This is a brilliant video, I can thank living near this track for my passion for motorsport.
I always loved this circuit in Toca Race Driver 3.
This is a brilliant video detailing the rich history of the Adelaide Street Circuit. This video alone speaks volumes as to why the Adelaide Street Circuit should have never been axed in the first place. Well done. Lets all hope that this place remains part of Australian Motorsport for many, many years to come.
Love coming back to this video so much. Considering the trauma that Rhys went through in 2022, this video stands as a testament to his video-making skill.
It's such a great circuit.
I love driving through the city and getting a green light from Rundle Rd to Dequetteville Tce. It gives you an idea how fast they'd go down there ... tempted to floor it lol
I have once done a race on adelaide in ac in mx5s
Basically, everyone went full send over the t1 chicane and there was an enormous pileup in t2
Grew up with the F1 race and was sadly right at Turn 8 when the Cooper accident happened. Got to race in the Adelaide Motorsport Festival in 2015/16 which uses just the Victoria Park section of the track. Can confirm the Senna Chicane is a very good piece of road.
I really enjoy the love and enthusiasm you're putting in your videos. That, plus they're fun and informative. Just wanted to leave that one here. Keep these coming :)
By far the best street circuit ever, F1 should go back
Absolutely love Adelaide even though I’m a melburneian myself just everything about it is perfect to me weather it’s open wheel or in a touring car just love it it’s so massively underrated it’s nearly criminal
This was bloody great Rhys. I think you could make a great series of these videos for every Australian Supercars circuit. The combination of track guide and history lesson works really well.
Great video!
Man, I wish they’d bring back the GP layout, or as close as possible to the GP layout (note that it would be pretty easy to resurrect Brewery Corner - there’s nothing there but grass). It was a tremendous circuit and I think the Supercars version loses some challenge.
Plus Turn 8, even with some changes, is still a very dangerous corner, and replacing that challenge with the challenges of the GP circuit would improve safety.
I went to the Adelaide GP from 86' till 90..it was simply the best viewing circuit any motoring spectator would love.
Just a couple of my highlights...
In the 86' I parked myself within the S's..where the F1'a had to slow down so you could see the "whites of the drivers eyes"...brilliant..
Then in the last 2 years I parked my self in the first stand out of the Stag Hotel corner..the F1's would come into Stag in 2nd, get through the corner..straighten up and launch down the straight for all it was worth. A spectator could get down onto the fenceline..peer through the wire, really catch and smell the action. Brocky coming through Stag on 2 wheels hassled by Perkins and the rest of the pack was a highlight..
I think it was in 88' the year when it rained..I was down on the fence line..with about 300 of my closest friends..and qualifying was just to happen.
Then it rained...a couple of brief showers and all hell broke loose..
Prost wanted to pull the pin and many of the other F1 drivers were on the fence.
Then out came Senna...he tip toed through the lap a couple of times..the rain held off..he decided to crank it up. He was the only driver out on the track..and you could hear the car for miles as its' engine sound echoed off the surrounding building...this was going to be Senna giving it his all in the wet..
He came out of Stag a fraction wide and slightly sideways but some how gathered the car up..straightened it and just send it.
It was Senna at Monaco all over again..but here he was in Adelaide Australia muscling it around a street circuit..before my very eyes.
You could see the "puffs" of flame come out of the exhaust pipes as it was overcast and the ambient light was dim...
I counted those puffs..there was six of them..
Senna had changed gear 6 times before his car reached under the first pedestrian overpass along that straight. That pedestrian overpass was located 200mtrs from the exit of Stag Corner..you have to remember..the drivers were changing gears "manually"..none of this "flappy paddle bullshite"...the three peddle foot dance and a short hand gear lever..and Senna was a master of it.
Then on the Sunday..out came Fangio driving the Merc Silver Arrow he drove to his world championship during the early 50's..all with his leather helmet and flimsy driving suit..he was suppose to do a demonstration lap...but Fangio had other ideas.
He pushed the Merc hard into Stag corner on those "cheese cutter tyres"..all the time wrestling that monster bloody wooden steering wheel as I saw his elbows stick out from the edges of the drivers cockpit. His head was cocked sideways as his neck muscles fought the G forces...Fangio was not mucking around this time....he was "on it". Then give the Merc its' head and barrelled down the straight with a roar from that beautiful supercharged straight eight...when he got back to the Pits...Fangio's time for a lap was about 8sec slower than the last F1 qualifier from the previous day..
I was very sad when the F1's moved to Melbourne..
I was hoping against hope that Victoria and SA could come together to share the cost and alternate the F1 championship between the racetracks..because it is the Australian GP after all.
But is was not to be..Australian State politics..what can I say..
I have never been to Albert Park..because Adelaide was the best F1 street track a motoring sport spectator could wish for.
Albert Park doesn't come even close to Adelaide for "up and close" F1 action.
Memories....
thank god i found this channel omg! fantastic stuff
I've played this on the Nintendo DS version of TOCA, Race Driver, Create and Race. Probably one of my favourite tracks in any racing game.
Best track of all time. Thank you for giving us a guide and history lesson on it ❤️
Don’t want to be that dick that makes everything political but…thank you Labor for keeping this piece of history in tact and not just a memory like has befallen: Amaroo, Warwick Farm, Longford, and of course Oran Park among others
and potentially Sandown soon :(
Well at least Labor have done something right :p
@@CaptainParallax According to Racenet Sandown is safe until 2027 thankfully. (Its just one obscure outlet tho so take the report with a grain of salt)
@@2ndLastJedi Are you implying this is the only thing they've done right?
Labor lost us the Grand Prix to Melbourne too though, so...
Great vid and good insight👍hey remember the old horse racing track round the park? Not much is visible nowadays
I love the Adelaide circuit. One of the places I first watched Supercars. Always a good race.
Also, Australian GT races there are almost always chaos haha. Also worth the watch
The new f1 game needs classic tracks like
Adelaide, Turkey, South Africa, Malaysia, Nuremberg
Nuremberg? The Norisring?
And Turkey counts as classic already? :o
For me it is a shame that the Adelaide 500 A, use the shorten version of this circuit, and B, is was opted to have 2, 250km race's. If the Adelaide 500 used the full Grand Prix circuit, and a single 500km endurance round. It would be an even better race.
What an epic video about Adelaide Street Circuit, great stuff! Everything covered. I hope that everyone who reminisces the f1 (or v8's) in adelaide watches this, it's gold. Do you live in Adelaide SouthPawRacer? I love how they revived it as well, but we need to get another category alongside the supercars, like s5000 or WEC, Asian lemans or even formula e. Kudos to Malinauskas for trying with f1 of all things. They need to get the non supercar fans there or else i'm worried attendance numbers will keep going down. But the fact they (government of the time) went from starting to sell the infrastructure and wanting to rip up permanent section, to now having event fully revived with 5 year deal is a blessing.
Nice history and overview! I actually prefer the current, shortened version of the circuit, primarily because of that fast sweeting corner. Getting it right in a fast car in the sims is such a rewarding experience.
Im over the moon that Adelaide is back so much so im going this year
nice to see Ivan Capelli driving something resembling a Leyton House in the sim
Very serious, with lots of respect. Well done.
I've never fully understood why street and road courses have never implemented SAFER barriers in corners like turn 8. Yes, it would be a slightly more intense logistical and monetary undertaking than the corners as they exist now, but it seems to me that a system like that would be a minimum safety requirement in this day and age.
SAFER barriers will catch and stop a car which you really don't want in turn 8. Any cars following will have a car instantly stopped on the only racing line though the turn.
@@matgee8892 SAFER barriers don't stop cars. You're thinking of either tire barriers or Tecpro barriers. SAFER barriers are what are typically around ovals, and recently, turn 14 at Zandvoort. SAFER barriers flex and return to their intended shape after an impact.
@@moperry8399 Ah yes i forgot about the NASCAR/Indycar barriers. I was thinking of tech pro. I guess they are happy with the re-profiling but i agree it would be worthwhile to add extra protection if the technology is available. Supercars is the highest level motor sport in the country so it should be using the highest level safety tech available. Perhaps there is some reason SAFER wouldn't work but i dont know enough about the implementation to be sure.
@@matgee8892 I've thought the same thing. Turn 8 isn't that far removed from an oval turn so can't imagine why it wouldn't work. I don't think it's cheap though.
As an American, who has only been paying attention to Australian motorsport since 2015, I can easily say this is my second favorite Australian circuit. Bathurst is definitely #1 (and I think you can argue it’s #1 in the world) but Adelaide is an uncontested #2 for me.
I'm glad Adelaide's back but I just wish that it being added back in to the Supercars calendar this year didn't come at the expense of Newcastle, which had already been postponed from being the opener thanks to Covid. I like the idea of Adelaide being the final round of the season but surely they could've added it in as a 14th round, there is space in November.
On another note, I think it'd be cool to see a Formula E race held here.
Favourite F1 moment in Adelaide: probably the controversial ones, i.e. Mansell's blowout in 1986 and Hill vs Schumacher in 1994 (both of which are bittersweet of course for a Briton such as myself). The maddest moment, definitely the entire 1991 race.
Favourite Supercars moment in Adelaide: Scott McLaughlin vs Jamie Whincup for P2 on the final lap of the second race of the 2014 event.
Your back!!!
Best series on yt
As a local, I always quietly wish for either this track or Mallala to be featured in racing games, but accept a small victory when Bathurst is included
Simply the Best! I'd feel that I'd make a Tina Turner Shout Out over the Ayrton Senna dedication which clawed at Adelaide's F1 Stay and Tina Turner's Recording Career (Which she later beat the Backstreet Boys in Ticket Sales Worldwide in 1999.)
I love adelaide, if I ever visit Australia then I've gotta go to either adelaide or surfers
its still my favorite track to drive with vintage racecar
Good video exciting for next weeks motorsport
I know it's subjective, but I think this is one of your best videos. Loved it.
4:44 man it looks like you got a computer game car and added it to actual real live footage!! AMS looking mighty fine!
What filter is used here?
Probably better to have the Supercars at the end of the season. I used to work in nearby Rundle St and in March it was impossible to do anything at that time; you had the Fringe Festival in Rymill and Rundle Park, and literally next to it you had the Clipsal 500, two major events at the same time next to each other. Then you also had other festivals and so on (hence the term "Mad March").
Is there a reason why after the 2008 tragedy turn 8 wasn't reverted back to the original hard braking zone it was before 2002 or was it simply that it just wasn't thought about?
Gotta say, if someone was side-by-side on the inside but still "trailing" by definition of having the front of the car behind the other for T8, I doubt that car would be the one to pull out. But that turn could really use safer barriers. Not to mention, why where the old barriers nearly in a 90° angle to the track and not curved like on the current version, if the AMS layout is anything to go by?
Wow brilliant video.
I love your checkered shirt!🏁
He turned into an Australian lumberjack! Or Al Borland.
Adelaide to me was screwed over. Melbourne is a pretty track but the racing was better at Adelaide....and Adelaide had some amazing memories.
We weren't screwed over. The government at the time didn't consider it to be in the best interest to spend money retaining the race after the collapse of StateBank. Absolutely moronic move and it haunts me to this day.
3:43 and for the last 2 years, that's been relegated to a covid testing site. I've sat on the main straight in my Mitsubishi waiting for a nose swap twice in the last month haha
If America has 3 races. Australia should have 3 too. My Australian geography isn’t great. However a version of Adelaide should be there.
i dont care about touring cars (heavy, slow, boring) but as a F1 circuit Adelaide was awesome from 85-95 - coinciding perfectly with the golden years of F1.
short question, what happend to your hand?
Hi my name is Tim O’Gorman. My Dad is Bill and it pains me that Dad has done so much for Australian motorsports and had no recognition for what he has done for the love of the sport. I’m going to put some stuff together from when he was a racer till now. He’s big part of getting Wakefield Park being reopened just for the the sport and community I’m going to get some content 3:37 together. Are you keen to get it out there??
whats the beginning song?
Bobby Richards - "June"
@@SouthPawRacer thanks!
And how good was the first Adl500 back!!!
I highly doubt it'll be added and I'm not a religious person but I pray this gets added to iracing.... would be a banger
I prefer Surfers Paradise, mainly because I'm an agent of Indycar Chaos
if Indycar plans to return to Aussie, this track could be the main choice!
Didn't know that Reagan was president in Australia too.
i have always wasted to drive on it, but i cant find a sim on xbox that has it
Surfers Paradise: Am I a joke to you?
Damn bro what happened to your right hand? :(
Check his video on why he's called SouthPawRacer
It was the WRONG call of the FIA to move it to Melbourne in 1996. Money talked,sadly
Ah great, the negative reviews were getting kinda samey :P
"Showcase of Adelaide"
2 minutes in : *anyways here's a history lesson*
Allow me to translate south australian
Bon-NY-Thon
dec-tavil
*bon-eye-thon
*de-ket-a-ville
I let him go with calling it "Brewery Corner" though, being that it's "Brewery Bend" because it was a solid video.
Adelaide GP 2025
Absolutely love this Circuit it is simply the best street circuit in the world and so much better than the pathetic shithole they call Albert park
I'm from SA and have a collab idea if you want to hit me up with an email