{"id":830491,"date":"2026-08-30T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:34:15","slug":"designs-for-96m-adelaide-motogp-street-circuit-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830491\/","title":{"rendered":"Designs for $96m Adelaide MotoGP street circuit released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 400 trees will be removed in Adelaide’s eastern parklands to make way for a new MotoGP street circuit costing $96 million, the South Australian government has revealed.<\/p>\n

Premier Peter Malinauskas has unveiled the design for a 4.13 kilometre-long circuit that is set to host MotoGP from November 2027.<\/p>\n

The Tour Down Under would also race on the track from January 2028, the government announced.<\/p>\n

The circuit redesign would see 42 significant trees felled, along with a further 335 of what the government has categorised as “regulated, unregulated, invasive, dead or poor health” trees.<\/p>\n

A further 88 trees would be relocated while another 22 were “under investigation”, the premier said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Premier Peter Malinauskas has unveiled the design for the circuit set to host MotoGP.\u00a0 (Carl Saville: ABC News)<\/p>\n

Of the 22 trees under investigation, the premier said 15 were significant trees.<\/p>\n

Mr Malinauskas said trees would be replaced on a 10 to 1 basis, meaning 3,770 trees would be planted.<\/p>\n

The government would also procure a new temporary pit building, rather than a permanent building.<\/p>\n

The premier said there had been some “conjecture” about a permanent building but admitted the government “did look at the options”.<\/p>\n

Prior to the release of the plans, there had been protests about tree loss, with more than 43,000 people signing a petition calling for a halt to works.<\/p>\n

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The proposed Adelaide Circuit Redevelopment design. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

“I don’t think this will stop the protests, I mean, people are entitled to protest against it regardless,” Mr Malinauskas said.<\/p>\n

“But what it does do is makes it very clear that this government is committed to investing in our parklands.”<\/p>\n

The bulk of the trees would be removed between Wakefield and Bartels Road.<\/p>\n

Public consultation on the track will start on Monday and run until September 20.<\/p>\n

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A map showing the planned circuit. (Supplied: SA Government)<\/p>\n

Mr Malinauskas said the government was “genuinely interested in the feedback it will receive”.<\/p>\n

The new track would have 15 turns \u2014 up from 14 currently \u2014 and a 900-metre long straight along Dequetteville Terrace.<\/p>\n

Top speeds for the MotoGP would be 343km\/h while the Supercars would reach up to 265km\/h, the government said.<\/p>\n

It was also forecasting a $200 million a year economic benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 400 trees will be removed in Adelaide’s eastern parklands to make way for a new MotoGP street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,10103,451,108946,3,351709,99658,452,453,351710,23636],"class_list":["post-830491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-circuit","tag-headlines","tag-motogp","tag-news","tag-parklands","tag-peter-malinauskas","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-track-design","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}