Homebush Street Circuit
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| Location | Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time +10 |
| Coordinates | 33°50′41″S 151°3′58″E / 33.84472°S 151.06611°ECoordinates: 33°50′41″S 151°3′58″E / 33.84472°S 151.06611°E |
| Opened | 4 December 2009 |
| Closed | 4 December 2016 |
| Major events | Sydney 500 |
| Length | 3.4 km (2.1 mi) |
| Turns | 13 |
| Lap record | 1:27.9481 (Shane van Gisbergen, Triple Eight Holden VE Commodore, 2016, Supercars) |
The Homebush Street Circuit, also known as the Sydney Olympic Park Street Circuit, was a temporary street circuit around the former Olympic precinct at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush Bay, Australia. The track hosted the Sydney 500 and was used for the first time at the final round of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. The circuit was used for the final time in December 2016.
The circuit was designed by Mark Skaife, who focused on creating a 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 kilometres of tarmac needed to be torn up to accommodate the race. Overall the track had a mixture of track surfaces.
V8 Supercar driver Jason Richards suggested that there were many difficult braking areas, interesting corners and good passing spots. The main straight was the single widest section of race track in Australia, while the straight along Edwin Flack Avenue was one of the narrowest. The outside of turn eight had an unusual negative camber that caught many drivers out in the inaugural race, resulting in several cars crashing into the outer barriers. The first race was won by Toll Holden Racing Team's Garth Tander from pole position while, the second 250 km race was won by Dick Johnson Racing's James Courtney (who started from second position on the grid). Jamie Whincup secured winning the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series after finishing fifth in race 1 and fourteenth in race 2.
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