accomodate the Australian round of the MotoGP World Championship from 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\nAdelaide will from next year host MotoGP and the Supercars Championship just weeks apart, enabling two uses from its temporary infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The main focus is on adapting the venue to MotoGP\u2019s safety standards, which includes an expansion to feature roads that were last part of the circuit when Adelaide hosted the Australian F1 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
While the same base layout will be utilised for both MotoGP and Supercars, tweaks will be made between events to ensure the spectacle of the latter\u2019s Grand Final remains.<\/p>\n
South Australian Motor Sport Board (SAMSB) chief executive Mark Warren and board member Liam Curkpatrick have been surveying Supercars drivers and team bosses on the subject in Darwin.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for us to make sure that, whilst we get it right for a MotoGP event, we also get it right for a Supercars event,\u201d Warren told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking at doing the design in parallel and, so far, the feedback has been fantastic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was some concerns about, is it going to be too fast and flowy (due to being redesigned for MotoGP)?<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ve gone to a lot of effort to look at the kerbs and how we might bring the barrier lines in to really make sure we retain that street circuit feel for Supercars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe drivers have been enthusiastic about that because their main concern was, suddenly you\u2019ve got what might look like a Philip Island, which might not suit a Supercars event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren said feedback in Darwin has included excitement about the return of the historic F1 track segment that includes Stag Corner and Brewery Bend.<\/p>\n
Brewery Bend, which connects Rundle Road and Dequetteville Terrace, may be profiled to mimic the Supercars circuit\u2019s Turn 8 sweeper, which is bypassed on the expanded layout.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the speed profiling we\u2019ve done already shows that the speeds are very similar to what the current Turn 8 is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, we need to make sure that it\u2019s going to be safe for the next 10, 20 years to come, but don\u2019t take away too much of the consequences if drivers to get it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Brodie Kostecki attacks Adelaide\u2019s Turn 8 sweeper. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n
Warren said the feedback from drivers and teams was being sought ahead of a driver-in-the-loop simulation being developed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s pretty important because then we know for sure whether it\u2019s going to work for the Supercars racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can do all the engineering simulations in the world, but I think that will tell us if it actually does produce good racing.\u201d<\/p>\n
That will be followed by a homologation process with both the FIA and FIM \u2013 the governing bodies for world motorsport and motorcycle racing respectively.<\/p>\n
Warren noted the current plan for the MotoGP circuit remains \u201cremarkably similar\u201d to the initial illustration presented during the announcement of the deal in February.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of refinements, particularly around corners and alignments, but the general shape of it looks very similar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven before we made the announcement, there was about 18 different versions we\u2019d already gone through by the time we got to that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t going to announce it before we knew that we could actually build a safe and also great MotoGP circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas presenting the MotoGP track layout to media in February. Image: Supplied The famous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[130409,64,63,806,805,803,804,12357,85],"class_list":["post-749643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-adelaide-grand-final","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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