Supercars - Gold Coast 500
Gold Coast 500
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Showing times for America/Phoenix
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America - Phoenix
23 - 25 Oct
Completed
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit
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Track Info
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit - Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Beachfront street spectacular - clockwise - 2.960 km with 15 turns, two infamous kerb-hopping chicanes and concrete walls that punish every mistake
When was the track built?
Surfers is a temporary street course laid through the resort city’s beachside boulevards. Conceived for CART, it opened in March 1991 using a 4.470 km, 20-turn map that ran alongside the ocean with multiple fast chicanes. After Champ Car's tenure ended, the circuit was shortened and re-profiled to a 2.960 km, 15-turn Supercars-focused layout from 2010, retaining the high-commitment chicanes that made the venue famous.
When was its first race?
The circuit’s first race was the 1991 Gold Coast IndyCar Grand Prix on 17 March 1991, the CART season opener and the championship’s first Southern Hemisphere event.
What's the circuit like?
- Kerb-hop culture: Two defining chicanes bookend the lap rhythm. The Beach Chicane is a crowd magnet where precision over the big kerbs makes or breaks a flyer.
- Walls and heavy stops: Concrete close on corner exits, then big braking into late-lap hairpins set up classic divebombs and switchbacks.
- Surface and speed swings: Recent resurfacing has juiced lap speed and seen all-time practice and qualifying marks tumble during the Gold Coast 500 build-up.
- Benchmark pace: S5000’s 1:09.4981 sits as the outright race-lap. Supercars’ best official race-lap is 1:10.0851, with modern quali frequently flirting with the high 1:09s.
Lap records and benchmarks (by series)
- S5000 - race lap: 1:09.4981 - Joey Mawson, Rogers AF01/V8, 2022.
- Supercars - race lap: 1:10.0851 - Will Davison, Ford FG Falcon, 2011. Practice and quali records continue to fall after 2025 resurfacing.
- GT3 - race lap: 1:11.9918 - Fraser Ross, McLaren 720S GT3, 2019.
- Porsche Carrera Cup - race lap: 1:11.7955 - Aaron Love, 992 GT3 Cup, 2022.
- Original 4.470 km layout - Champ Car race lap: 1:31.093 - Graham Rahal, Panoz DP01, 2007.
Why go?
Because it blends beachfront atmosphere with relentless street-race jeopardy. You get slipstream-to-late-brake fights into the hairpins, gladiator kerb hops through the Beach Chicane and packed grandstands steps from the Pacific. The Gold Coast 500 weekend doubles as a city festival with concerts and trackside parties.
Where's the best place to watch?
- Beach Chicane grandstands: Maximum-risk kerb hopping and constant yellow-flag jeopardy - the lap’s signature sequence.
- Front Chicane - Turn 1 to Turn 3: Starts and restarts funnel into aggressive moves as the field compresses.
- Late-lap hairpin complex: Deep braking after the back straight produces divebombs and switchbacks that decide photo finishes.
Not just one series - headline events at Surfers
Supercars - Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500: Street enduro that anchors the spring calendar with new-surface speed records trending in 2025 practice.
Legacy open-wheel era: Gold Coast Indy/Champ Car 1991 to 2008 on the longer 4.470 km map established the venue’s global reputation.
GT and one-make showcases: Australian GT and Porsche Carrera Cup have set modern sub-1:12 race laps on the current layout.
Hotels & Accommodation
Gold Coast 500
23 - 25 Oct
Completed
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit
Track Info
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit - Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Beachfront street spectacular - clockwise - 2.960 km with 15 turns, two infamous kerb-hopping chicanes and concrete walls that punish every mistake
When was the track built?
Surfers is a temporary street course laid through the resort city’s beachside boulevards. Conceived for CART, it opened in March 1991 using a 4.470 km, 20-turn map that ran alongside the ocean with multiple fast chicanes. After Champ Car's tenure ended, the circuit was shortened and re-profiled to a 2.960 km, 15-turn Supercars-focused layout from 2010, retaining the high-commitment chicanes that made the venue famous.
When was its first race?
The circuit’s first race was the 1991 Gold Coast IndyCar Grand Prix on 17 March 1991, the CART season opener and the championship’s first Southern Hemisphere event.
What's the circuit like?
- Kerb-hop culture: Two defining chicanes bookend the lap rhythm. The Beach Chicane is a crowd magnet where precision over the big kerbs makes or breaks a flyer.
- Walls and heavy stops: Concrete close on corner exits, then big braking into late-lap hairpins set up classic divebombs and switchbacks.
- Surface and speed swings: Recent resurfacing has juiced lap speed and seen all-time practice and qualifying marks tumble during the Gold Coast 500 build-up.
- Benchmark pace: S5000’s 1:09.4981 sits as the outright race-lap. Supercars’ best official race-lap is 1:10.0851, with modern quali frequently flirting with the high 1:09s.
Lap records and benchmarks (by series)
- S5000 - race lap: 1:09.4981 - Joey Mawson, Rogers AF01/V8, 2022.
- Supercars - race lap: 1:10.0851 - Will Davison, Ford FG Falcon, 2011. Practice and quali records continue to fall after 2025 resurfacing.
- GT3 - race lap: 1:11.9918 - Fraser Ross, McLaren 720S GT3, 2019.
- Porsche Carrera Cup - race lap: 1:11.7955 - Aaron Love, 992 GT3 Cup, 2022.
- Original 4.470 km layout - Champ Car race lap: 1:31.093 - Graham Rahal, Panoz DP01, 2007.
Why go?
Because it blends beachfront atmosphere with relentless street-race jeopardy. You get slipstream-to-late-brake fights into the hairpins, gladiator kerb hops through the Beach Chicane and packed grandstands steps from the Pacific. The Gold Coast 500 weekend doubles as a city festival with concerts and trackside parties.
Where's the best place to watch?
- Beach Chicane grandstands: Maximum-risk kerb hopping and constant yellow-flag jeopardy - the lap’s signature sequence.
- Front Chicane - Turn 1 to Turn 3: Starts and restarts funnel into aggressive moves as the field compresses.
- Late-lap hairpin complex: Deep braking after the back straight produces divebombs and switchbacks that decide photo finishes.
Not just one series - headline events at Surfers
Supercars - Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500: Street enduro that anchors the spring calendar with new-surface speed records trending in 2025 practice.
Legacy open-wheel era: Gold Coast Indy/Champ Car 1991 to 2008 on the longer 4.470 km map established the venue’s global reputation.
GT and one-make showcases: Australian GT and Porsche Carrera Cup have set modern sub-1:12 race laps on the current layout.
