Sydney Motorsport Park

Sydney Motorsport Park at a glance

Location

Eastern Creek, New South Wales

Type

road course

Length

3.91 km (2.43 mi)

Turns

11

Direction

counter-clockwise

Surface

asphalt

Opened

1990

Owner

Australian Racing Drivers' Club (venue owned by the NSW Government)

Address

Ferrers Road, Eastern Creek NSW 2766

Phone

1300 183 700

Website

sydneymotorsportpark.com.au

Track map and layout

Sydney Motorsport Park is a modular facility built around several interchangeable layouts rather than one fixed lap, a legacy of a AU$9 million reconfiguration completed in 2012. The main Gardner GP Circuit used for the Supercars Championship is 3.910 km over 11 turns, anti-clockwise, and opens with Turn 1 (Moffat Corner), taken at around 200 km/h and rated among the fastest corners in Australian motorsport, followed by the tighter Bond Bend. The longer Brabham Extended layout adds a twisting infield loop for club and endurance racing, while the shorter Druitt and Amaroo configurations serve smaller categories, karting and driver training, letting the venue run several events simultaneously on different circuits in the same complex. Flat and technical rather than dramatic in elevation, the park rewards precise, momentum-based driving over raw bravery.

Named corners and sections

• Moffat Corner (Turn 1). The fast, committing first corner, named in 2017 for Allan Moffat and taken at close to 200 km/h; regarded as one of the most demanding corners on any Australian circuit.
• Bond Bend (Turn 2). The tighter corner immediately after Moffat Corner, named alongside it in 2017 for Colin Bond; both names honour the pair's famous 1977 Bathurst 1000 formation finish and their later roles with venue operator the Australian Racing Drivers' Club.
• Brock's 05 (Turn 5). A mid-lap corner named in honour of nine-time Bathurst winner Peter Brock.

Configurations

Events and race weekends

The Sydney SuperNight (branded the Sydney 500 in earlier years) is the Supercars Championship's Sydney round, historically run as a twilight/night race and in recent seasons shifted to the season-opening weekend of the calendar. The circuit also hosts TCR Australia, GT World Challenge Australia and Australian Superbike Championship rounds, plus the long-running Muscle Car Masters historic meeting. From 1991 to 1996 the venue (then Eastern Creek Raceway) hosted the Australian motorcycle Grand Prix before that event moved permanently to Phillip Island.

Getting there and parking

Sydney Motorsport Park is in Eastern Creek, western Sydney, about a 40-minute drive from the Sydney CBD via the M4 Motorway, and close to Blacktown and Parramatta. Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport is roughly 45-60 minutes away by road depending on traffic; the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, opening in 2026, sits only a few minutes from the circuit and will become the closest airport once operational. Public transport is limited, so most visitors drive or use event shuttle buses on race days.

• Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD) · about 50 min drive
• Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) · about 10 min drive

Parking

General on-site parking is available for most events, included with standard tickets for club meetings; major events like the Sydney SuperNight sell separate parking passes and advise arriving early as the M4-adjacent access roads back up before sessions.

Because Sydney Motorsport Park is a same-day trip from most of greater Sydney, many visitors do not need overnight accommodation at all except for multi-day Supercars or GT weekends.

Hotels and camping near Sydney Motorsport Park

Unlike Australia's regional circuits, Sydney Motorsport Park sits inside a major metropolitan area, so most visitors simply drive in from home or stay in ordinary Sydney accommodation rather than booking a special race-weekend base. The closest option is the Alpha Hotel Eastern Creek, immediately adjacent to the circuit, with the Blacktown and Parramatta hotel precincts a short drive away offering a much larger range of choice.

Where to look

Alpha Hotel Eastern Creek sits right beside the circuit; Blacktown and Parramatta, both 10-20 minutes away, have the widest range of hotel and motel options for a Supercars or GT weekend.

Track days, driving experiences and lap records

Sydney Motorsport Park runs its own extensive calendar of public track activity: SMSP Open Pit Lane Track Days for cars, split into morning and afternoon sessions, and SMSP Ride Days for motorcycles catering to most skill levels and machine types. These run year-round on the Gardner GP or Amaroo circuits alongside club-level hire days for karts and driver training courses through Motorsports Training Australia.

Who runs days here

• SMSP Track Dayscar
• SMSP Ride Daysmotorcycle
• Motorsports Training Australiaboth

Lap records

Spectator guide

A 4,000-seat covered grandstand overlooking the start-finish straight gives sight lines across roughly 80% of the Gardner GP Circuit, making it one of the better vantage points at any Australian circuit for following a whole race without moving. General admission mounds and viewing areas elsewhere around the lap add coverage of the Turn 1/Moffat Corner braking zone and the infield.

Seating

The main covered grandstand sits on the front straight; additional temporary grandstands and general-admission hill viewing are added for the Sydney SuperNight and other major events.

Best places to watch

The main grandstand's elevated view covers most of the lap at once; fans wanting to see braking and overtaking up close favour the Turn 1/Moffat Corner and Turn 2/Bond Bend area.

Weather

• Sydney SuperNight weekend: Depends on the calendar slot in a given season, but western Sydney runs noticeably hotter than the coast in summer and can be cool and foggy on winter mornings

History of Sydney Motorsport Park

Eastern Creek Raceway

The circuit was built west of Sydney at Eastern Creek and opened on 10 November 1990 as Eastern Creek International Raceway, developed to give Sydney a permanent international-standard motor racing facility after years of lobbying by the Australian Racing Drivers' Club, the body that also ran the Bathurst 1000 for decades. The original layout was 3.930 km over 11 turns and quickly became the venue for national touring car racing, drag racing and, from 1991 to 1996, the Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, before that event settled permanently at Phillip Island.

Rebuild and rebrand

Eastern Creek Raceway kept its name and largely its layout through the 1990s and 2000s while hosting Supercars, A1 Grand Prix rounds and a wide range of club motorsport. A major redevelopment beginning in June 2011 reshaped the infield into four interchangeable configurations - Gardner GP, Brabham, Druitt and Amaroo - allowing several categories to run simultaneously on the one site. The upgraded venue reopened under a new name, Sydney Motorsport Park, in May 2012.

Naming corners, present day

In October 2017 the circuit renamed Turns 1 and 2 as Moffat Corner and Bond Bend, honouring Allan Moffat and Colin Bond's famous formation finish at Bathurst in 1977 and both men's long association with the ARDC. Turn 5 similarly carries the name Brock's 05 for Peter Brock. Today Sydney Motorsport Park remains the ARDC's flagship venue and the annual host of the Supercars Championship's Sydney round, alongside TCR Australia, GT World Challenge Australia, Australian Superbike Championship rounds and a busy year-round program of public track and ride days.

Frequently asked questions

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