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The Homebush Street Circuit is a temporary street circuit around the former Olympic precinct at Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales. The track was used for the first time at the final round of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, the inaugural Sydney 500.
The circuit was designed by Mark Skaife. He focused on creating a difficult track with a variety of bumps, camber changes and fast and slow corners making it difficult to complete the perfect lap. It was constructed on Australia Avenue, Kevin Coombs Avenue, Edwin Flack Avenue and Dawn Fraser Avenue. 140 mature trees needed to be removed and kilometers of tarmac needed to be torn up to accommodate the race. Overall the track has a mixture of track surfaces.
The circuit has been described as the most unpredictable on the calendar as nine different drivers have won the ten races held since 2009, with Craig Lowndes being the only multiple winner. It also has had the lowest percentage of finishers out of cars started in the four year running of the event with 68% of cars making it through to the finish, as compared to 77% at the Gold Coast (run since 1994), 88% at Adelaide (run since 1999) and 90% at Townsville (run since 2009).
The circuit was designed by Mark Skaife. He focused on creating a difficult track with a variety of bumps, camber changes and fast and slow corners making it difficult to complete the perfect lap. It was constructed on Australia Avenue, Kevin Coombs Avenue, Edwin Flack Avenue and Dawn Fraser Avenue. 140 mature trees needed to be removed and kilometers of tarmac needed to be torn up to accommodate the race. Overall the track has a mixture of track surfaces.
The circuit has been described as the most unpredictable on the calendar as nine different drivers have won the ten races held since 2009, with Craig Lowndes being the only multiple winner. It also has had the lowest percentage of finishers out of cars started in the four year running of the event with 68% of cars making it through to the finish, as compared to 77% at the Gold Coast (run since 1994), 88% at Adelaide (run since 1999) and 90% at Townsville (run since 2009).
