 | Round 1: Clipsal 500 Adelaide Parklands Circuit Friday, 2 March 2007 - Sunday, 4 March 2007 Adelaide Street Circuit is a temporary race track in the East Parklands adjacent to the central business district of the city of Adelaide in South Australia. The track has hosted eleven Formula One Australian Grand Prix events from 1985 to 1995 and an American Le Mans sports car race on New Year's Eve in 2000 (The Race of a Thousand Years) on the long form (3.78 km) of the track. It has hosted an annual V8 Supercar race called the Clipsal 500 since 1999 on a shorter, 3.22km, variant of the track. Cars race clockwise around the circuit. The event has won best event of the series every year from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 it was inducted into the V8 Supercars Australia Hall of Fame, the first time an individual event has been inducted. >> More Information |
 | Round 2: Bigpond 400 Barbagallo Raceway Friday, 23 March 2007 - Sunday, 25 March 2007 Barbagallo Raceway is the hub of motor racing in Western Australia. The Barbagallo Raceway circuit was built in 1969, measuring 2.415km. In 1992, a link from turn 5 to Tait Straight was constructed to form a 1.760km short circuit. >> More Information |
 | Round 3: V8 International Pukekohe Park Raceway Friday, 20 April 2007 - Sunday, 22 April 2007 Pukekohe Park Raceway is located 40 km south of Auckland. The Pukekohe circuit, designed around a horse racing track, is extremely fast with few passing opportunities. With drivers completing a lap under a minute, any mistake can prove costly. Tyre preservation is also a key to success on this New Zealand layout. >> More Information |
 | Round 4: Winton Raceway Winton Motor Raceway Friday, 18 May 2007 - Sunday, 20 May 2007 Winton Motor Raceway is a 3.0km circuit located in Winton, near Benalla, just off the Hume Highway in Victoria. The Benalla Auto Club, who still run the venue, began planning for a permanent racing track around 1958. In 1960 it was decided to build the track at Winton Recreation Reserve and was completed in twelve months. In 1985 Winton hosted it's first ever round of the Group A Australian Touring Car Championship, which was also the first Touring Car round to be televised by the Seven Network. V8 Supercars returned to Winton in 2006 having been reinstated to the calendar following the demise of the Shanghai round. >> More Information |
 | Round 5: Eastern Creek Eastern Creek Saturday, 9 June 2007 - Monday, 11 June 2007 Eastern Creek International Raceway is a motorsport circuit located in Eastern Creek, New South Wales (a western suburb of Sydney) and is operated by the Australian Racing Drivers Club. The track is used for national Australian races for cars, bikes and super karts. Eastern Creek was removed from the V8 Supercar Championship Series calendar in 2005 but was recently reinstated to host a round of the 2007 series. The Eastern Creek International Raceway also plays host to the Australian round of the A1 Grand Prix series. >> More Information |
 | Round 6: SKYCITY Triple Crown Hidden Valley Raceway Friday, 22 June 2007 - Sunday, 24 June 2007 Hidden Valley Raceway is located five kilometres from Darwin Airport and 10km from the city's central business district. The Raceway supports a state-of-the-art 2.87 kms circuit which features a 1.1km main straight and a challenging back section of curves and hairpin bends. >> More Information |
 | Round 7: Queensland 300 Queensland Raceway Friday, 20 July 2007 - Sunday, 22 July 2007 Queensland Raceway was designed after exhaustive and ongoing consultation with Australia's greatest motorsport heroes. Consideration to speed, safety and passing possibilities as well as spectator viewing have been combined to provide what is to be a benchmark for circuit design. Racing direction is clockwise. There are six corners, with four gravel traps, four overtaking areas under brakes. The circuit has a slight rise and fall of around 2m for drainage. >> More Information |
 | Round 8: Oran Park Oran Park Raceway Friday, 17 August 2007 - Sunday, 19 August 2007 Oran Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney. Most of the circuit is visible from the main grandstand or the grassed banks surrounding the track. Oran Park Raceway has several track layouts. It was established on 1 January 1963 with the current South Circuit. The full length, "Grand Prix Circuit", was added in the early 1970s. It is a 2.7 kilometre figure-eight shape with a bridge where the track crosses itself. Despite the loop in the longest track shape, the circuit is regarded as racing anticlockwise. Recently, the land on which the racetrack is on was sold to the NSW Government for a new housing development. This will lead to the closure of the track within the next two years. The owner is planning a replica circuit in close proximity to the current location. >> More Information |
 | Round 9: Just Car Insurance 500 Sandown International Motor Raceway Friday, 14 September 2007 - Sunday, 16 September 2007 Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately 25 km south east of the city. When Sandown first opened in 1962 it held the Sandown International Cup, which featured world-famous drivers such as Stirling Moss and Bruce McLaren. Throughout the 1960s and 70s the race meetings continued to attract international stars along with the best of Australia's drivers. Australia's traditional Holden/Ford rivalry really surfaced at the track in the late 1960s and through the 1970s until Peter Brock won seven meetings in a row, out of a total of nine. 1984 saw the introduction of Group A rules and an extension of the track to 3.9 km. It also saw the first 500 km race, named the Castrol 500. In 1989 the track reverted back to 3.1 km. Apart from a break between 1999 and 2002, Sandown has been an important circuit in the V8 Supercar Championship Series. >> More Information |
 | Round 10: Supercheap Auto 1000 Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit Thursday, 4 October 2007 - Sunday, 7 October 2007 Mount Panorama Circuit is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales. It is the home of the Bathurst 1000 motor race, held each October. The track is 6.213 kilometres long, and is technically a street circuit, as the Mountain is home to a number of residents. The track is a very unusual design by modern standards, with a 174 metre vertical difference between its highest and lowest points, and grades as steep as 1:6.13. From the start-finish line, the track can be viewed in three sections; the short pit straight and then a tight left turn into the long, steep Mountain straight; the tight, narrow section across the top of the mountain itself; and then the long, downhill section of Conrod Straight, with the very fast Chase and the turn back onto pit straight to complete the lap. Historically, the racetrack has been used for a wide variety of racing categories, including everything from open-wheel racers to motorcycles. However, the factors that make the track so unusual, and tighter contemporary safety standards, make it unlikely that major race meetings in these categories will be held there again, and as such it has become the near-exclusive province of closed-bodied automobile racing cars. As a public road, on non-race days Mount Panorama is open to the public. Cars can drive in both directions around the circuit for no charge. However, a strict speed limit of 60km/h is enforced, and police regularly patrol the circuit. >> More Information |
 | Round 11: V8 Supercar Challenge Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Friday, 19 October 2007 - Sunday, 21 October 2007 The construction of the Gold Coast circuit has been acclaimed internationally and is used as a benchmark for new temporary street circuits world-wide. Over a full 12-month period plans are laid and then implemented to transform a bustling residential, commercial and holiday destination into a temporary street circuit capable of facilitating high-speed motor races and hundreds of thousands of people. In a two-month period leading up to the event, seven bridges are erected, 2515 concrete barriers installed, 11,500 grandstand seats fastened, more than 140 corporate suites furnished, 10km of debris fencing and 16km of security fencing placed, many more temporary structures fitted, and large-scale power and telecommunications systems activated. The Lexmark Indy 300 street circuit is also an international leader in motor racing safety standards applauded by CAMS (Confederation of Australian Motorsport) and the FIA (the international governing body of motorsport). One of the major advancements over the past few years has been an increase in double height debris fencing including an additional 610 panels in high impact areas in 2005. >> More Information |
 | Round 12: Desert 400 Bahrain International Circuit Thursday, 1 November 2007 - Saturday, 3 November 2007 The Bahrain International Circuit is a venue used for drag racing, GP2, and an annual Formula One Grand Prix. For the first time in 2006, there was a V8 Supercar race, named the Desert 400, and also a 24 Hour Race. The construction of the Bahrain circuit was a national objective for Bahrain, initiated by the Crown Prince, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. The Crown Prince is the Honorary President of the Bahrain Motor Federation. Race organizers were worried that the circuit wouldn't be complete in time, and asked for the inaugural Bahrain Grand Prix to take place in 2005 instead. However, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone refused this request. In the end, the circuit was not quite fully complete, but was good enough for the grand prix to go ahead. The circuit posed a unique problem. Positioned in the middle of a desert, there were worries that sand would blow onto the circuit and disrupt the race. However, organizers were able to keep the sand off the track by spraying an adhesive on the sand around the track. The circuit was designed by German architect Hermann Tilke, the same architect who designed the Sepang circuit in Malaysia. The circuit cost approximately US $150 million to construct. It has six separate tracks, including a test oval and a drag strip. >> More Information |
 | Round 13: Falken Tasmania Challenge Symmons Plains International Raceway Friday, 16 November 2007 - Sunday, 18 November 2007 Symmons Plains International Raceway opened in 1960 and after the closure of the Longford road circuit, quickly established its own reputation as Tasmania’s home of touring car and championship motor racing. From 1969, the very first year that the Australian Touring Car Championship was held over a series of rounds, until 1999, Symmons Plains hosted a round of the Championship, and while the cars and drivers in that championship changed, the importance of the event never diminished. The 2.4km track requires the competitor to have a vehicle that is both fast, handles well and has good brakes as the track is designed to test all three. The track is known for several interesting features including its very long back straight with a kink, its extremely tight hairpin bend at the end of the front straight and the unusual placement of the original start/finish line, on a curve. >> More Information |
 | Round 14: Dunlop Grand Finale Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Thursday, 29 November 2007 - Sunday, 2 December 2007 The first races on Phillip Island took place in 1926 with the first Australian Grand Prix, known as the 100 Mile Race. It used, as was traditional at the time, a high speed rectangle of local closed-off public roads. The course length varied, with the car course approximately 6 miles per lap, to motorcycle racing of approximately 10 miles. As speeds grew, there was a need for a safe circuit. The original Phillip Island road circuit, based around the airfield, was a dusty trek up and down hills and through tough tight corners. It survived from the late 1920's to 1935. In 1951, local businessmen decided to build a new track. This is around 2Km from the original circuit, but still bears the corner name signs of the original circuit. As the piece of available land was on the edge of the coast, the track is known for its step grades - the highest 57 metres, which caused cost over runs and delays in track opening. The track hosted its first race in 1956, but due to extensive damage from the 1962 Armstrong 500, the circuit could not afford repairs, and the race moves to Bathurst. The circuit reopened in 1966, but again due to its testing terrain, the circuit required much maintenance, and slowly declined through the 1970's. It was farmed by its owners while closed, and was then sold in 1985 in preparation for reopening, but did not do so until 1989 after agreement on a long term lease and rebuild agreement. It hosted its first World Superbike race in 1990. In 2007, Phillip Island hosts the grand finale of the V8 Supercars Championship Series, as well as a regular MotoGP and Superbike round. There is to be a multi-million dollar re-development is planned to be started in late 2006. This will be completed by the Linfox Group, who now own the track. >> More Information |
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