Adelaide Street Circuit
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Adelaide , Australia | ||
Route type: | semi-permanent racetrack | |
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Opening: | 1985 | |
Formula 1 venue : |
1985-1995 | |
Grand Prix course | ||
Route data | ||
Important events: |
formula 1 | |
Route length: | 3.780 km (2.35 mi ) | |
Curves: | 16 | |
Records | ||
Track record: (Formula 1) |
1: 15.381 min. ( Damon Hill , Williams - Renault , 1993 ) |
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Short version | ||
Route data | ||
Important events: |
V8 supercars | |
Route length: | 3.219 km (2 mi ) | |
Curves: | 15th |
Coordinates: 34 ° 55 ′ 50 ″ S , 138 ° 37 ′ 14 ″ E
The Adelaide Street Circuit is a street racing course in Adelaide , Australia . From 1985 to 1995, the route was a regular venue for the Australian Grand Prix of Formula 1 and always the season finale. In 1986 and 1994 the world championship was decided there.
route
As a street circuit, the Adelaide Circuit does not act as a permanent race track. Rather, for the most part normal traffic roads are blocked off for the racing events. Similar to Monte Carlo, the grandstands are not set up until the race weekends. Only the last and first section of the route before the start and finish straight, which are located within the Victoria Park horse racing track , are designed as a permanent race track.
history
1985
The three-time reigning world champion Niki Lauda drove the last race of his Formula 1 career this season in Adelaide. He retired while in the lead. The race was won by Keke Rosberg , who thereby cemented his reputation as a specialist in street courses. Rosberg achieved four of his five racing victories on such routes; besides Adelaide, he had previously won in Monaco , Dallas and Detroit .
1986
The 1986 Australian Grand Prix was the last race of the season and three drivers were still able to become world champions: McLaren driver Alain Prost and the two Williams drivers Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet . Mansell arrived in Adelaide with a point advantage of six points on Prost and seven on Piquet and secured pole position in qualifying. In the race, however, he lost the title, which was within reach, due to a flat tire around 20 laps before the end. Alain Prost won the race and also the world championship.
1988
Alain Prost won the last race of the first turbo era of Formula 1 (1977 to 1988) in Adelaide. Due to the cancellation results, however, Prost had to admit defeat to his teammate Ayrton Senna , who had won more races this season.
1990
In 1990 the 500th Formula 1 Grand Prix in history took place in Adelaide. The three-time world champion Nelson Piquet in Benetton was the anniversary winner .
1991
Ayrton Senna won the shortest Grand Prix in Formula 1 history. The race was stopped after only 15 laps after torrential rain flooded the track.
1993
As it turned out in May 1994, Ayrton Senna won his 41st and last race here. His arch-rival Alain Prost drove the last Grand Prix of his career and finished the race in second behind Senna, who asked him to be on the top step of the podium as a gesture of reconciliation at the award ceremony.
1994
As in 1986, the 1994 World Cup was decided in the last race of the season in Adelaide. Michael Schumacher traveled to Australia one point ahead of his rival Damon Hill . The two drivers dominated the street circuit. On the 36th lap, Schumacher left the track in the lead after a driving error and hit a wall. He steered his car back on the track at a slower pace, where Hill tried to overtake him immediately. The two vehicles collided, Hill and Schumacher retired. The German's point lead was enough to win the world championship.
1995
The 1995 season finale was the last time a Formula 1 race took place on this track. The later double world champion Mika Häkkinen had a life-threatening accident in free Friday training . He had slashed the rear tire of his McLaren - Mercedes , spun and hit the side of a wall at high speed, which was only secured at this point by a row of tire stacks. The consequences were severe head and neck injuries, which made an immediate tracheal incision by racing doctor Prof. Sid Watkins necessary at the scene of the accident . Häkkinen recovered only gradually and the right half of his face has been paralyzed since then.
V8 supercars
Since 1999 Adelaide has hosted the annual Clipsal 500 race of the Australian touring car championship V8 Supercars .
statistics
F1 track records
- Qualification: 1: 13.371 min (Ayrton Senna, McLaren, 1993)
- Fastest race lap: 1: 15.381 min (Damon Hill, Williams, 1993)
All winners of Formula 1 races in Adelaide
No. | year | driver | constructor | engine | tires | time | Route length | Round | Ø pace | date | GP of |
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1 | 1985 | Keke Rosberg | Williams | Honda | G | 2: 00: 40.473 h | 3,778 km | 82 | 154.032 km / h | Nov 3 | Australia |
2 | 1986 | Alain Prost | McLaren | Porsche ( TAG ) | G | 1: 54: 20.388 h | 3,779 km | 82 | 162.609 km / h | Oct 26 | |
3 | 1987 | Gerhard Berger | Ferrari | Ferrari | G | 1: 52: 56.144 h | 3,779 km | 82 | 164.631 km / h | Nov 15 | |
4th | 1988 | Alain Prost | McLaren | Honda | G | 1: 53: 14.676 h | 3,780 km | 82 | 164.225 km / h | Nov 13 | |
5 | 1989 | Thierry Boutsen | Williams | Renault | G | 2:00: 17.421 h | 3,780 km | 70 | 131.981 km / h | Nov 5 | |
6th | 1990 | Nelson Piquet | Benetton | ford | G | 1: 49: 44.570 h | 3,780 km | 81 | 167.399 km / h | Nov 4 | |
7th | 1991 | Ayrton Senna | McLaren | Honda | G | 0: 24: 34.899 h | 3,780 km | 14th | 129.170 km / h | Nov 3 | |
8th | 1992 | Gerhard Berger | McLaren | Honda | G | 1: 46: 54.786 h | 3,780 km | 81 | 171.829 km / h | Nov 8 | |
9 | 1993 | Ayrton Senna | McLaren | ford | G | 1: 43: 27.476 h | 3,780 km | 79 | 173.183 km / h | Nov 7 | |
10 | 1994 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | Renault | G | 1: 47: 51.480 h | 3,780 km | 81 | 170.324 km / h | Nov 13 | |
11 | 1995 | Damon Hill | Williams | Renault | G | 1: 49: 15.946 h | 3,780 km | 81 | 168.130 km / h | Nov 12 |
Record winner
drivers: Gerhard Berger / Alain Prost / Ayrton Senna (2 each) • Driver nations: Brazil (3) • Constructors: McLaren (5) • Engine manufacturers: Honda (4) • Tire manufacturers: Goodyear (11)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "1995 - New engine, new misfortune" ( Memento of October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (flyingfinn.de)
- ^ "Formula 1 shocked - Mika Häkkinen is in a coma" (Welt.de on November 11, 1995)