Fly Ted Down Under Journeys through the land of Oz

Light's Vision: Adelaide, SA

AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 4 June 2011 | Views [553]

The crews were just finishing taking down the last of the temporary grandstand from the V8 race in March. The track maintains the same layout as the original F1 circuit, and it all happened right here. The pit straight and paddock area is the white building at the far-right.

From 1985 to 1995 Adelaide hosted the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, before it moved to Melbourne. The track was made up mostly of city streets on the east side of the CBD and parkland. Although F1 left town, the track still exists and is used every March for the wildly popular Aussie V8 series, which locals would say is far more exciting (they may have a point there). I was in Adelaide about three weeks after the V8 race, and traces of rubber were plentiful around the route of the track. The distinctive blue, yellow and red curbing though, which was famous during the F1 days, still exists and is a permanent fixture on certain corners.

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The pit straight and paddock area of the circuit, half of which sits in the former Victoria Park Racecourse.

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Fly Ted Down Under Journeys through the land of Oz

Light's Vision: Adelaide, SA

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