Top 5 tracks on the Calender

[FAS33]

lots of good rounds in the Country, but theyre can only be one winner, which is no guess really but I got thinking of doing a top 5 and here it is, wats yours?

1 Bathurst - Legendary, Brock, dipper
2 Clipsal 500 - 1st race, F1 history, turn 11 = best corner.
3 Gold Coast 600 - difficult track, Internationals, those chicanes.
4 Sandown 500 - 1st Endurance, co-drivers
5 Townsville 400 - Small track good racing, lots overtaking

[kittle]

Originally Posted by FAS33

lots of good rounds in the Country, but theyre can only be one winner, which is no guess really but I got thinking of doing a top 5 and here it is, wats yours?

1 Bathurst - Legendary, Brock, dipper
2 Clipsal 500 - 1st race, F1 history, turn 11 = best corner.
3 Gold Coast 600 - difficult track, Internationals, those chicanes.
4 Sandown 500 - 1st Endurance, co-drivers
5 Townsville 400 - Small track good racing, lots overtaking

I think i would have to agree with you on all those tracks. The Gold Coast is a great race as its so tight and twistie. Clipsal is fast and can really end your day quickly.

Bathurst speaks for it self. And Townsville is a great small track too with a few fast kinks to upset the car.

I know many wont agree but Homebush i think is good. Specially when it rains and the weather is involved. Very slippery.

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by FAS33

lots of good rounds in the Country, but theyre can only be one winner, which is no guess really but I got thinking of doing a top 5 and here it is, wats yours?

1 Bathurst - Legendary, Brock, dipper
2 Clipsal 500 - 1st race, F1 history, turn 11 = best corner.
3 Gold Coast 600 - difficult track, Internationals, those chicanes.
4 Sandown 500 - 1st Endurance, co-drivers
5 Townsville 400 - Small track good racing, lots overtaking

Sorry, but if you are listing the top 5 tracks in the country and not including Phillip Island, you've missed a step somewhere.

[billybanana]

Tracks vs rounds are totally different things. For me Phillip Island is the best track as a pure racing circuit but is a mile behind many of the other rounds for various reasons.

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1. Bathurst
2. Adelaide
3. PI
4. Hidden Valley
5. Sandown

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by billybanana

Tracks vs rounds are totally different things. For me Phillip Island is the best track as a pure racing circuit but is a mile behind many of the other rounds for various reasons.

Agree - PI magnifies setup differences due to the long fast corners so can sometimes lead to strung out races.

Topic is tracks though so PI should be in the top 5.

[FAS33]

my bad, tracks it is then. but you get the Idea

[raymond]

...opinion from across the ditch; based purely on TV viewing as I have only been to one Aussie circuit in 1998 in Tassie for the V8's.

1. Adelaide
2. Homebush
3. Bathurst
4. Lakeside
5. Symmons Plains (just 'cos I been there! Love the downhill hairpin!)

[RedZedMikey]

Best tracks ... but from which perspective?

As an on-track spectator, I could never vote Clipsal/GC/Townsville/Homebush as a favourite because you see so little of the actual race. I'm keen on motorsport photography, and these tracks are VERY limiting unless you have the authority to work from the other side of the fence.

My choices would be different if I was responding as a TV spectator, and probably different again if I was responding as a driver.

1.) Phillip Island
2.) Bathurst
3.) Sandown
4.) Barbagallo (OK, I'm WA origin, I admit to the bias)
5.) Albert Park, so long as I can into the Chicane Skybox.

[dsg]

[QUOTE=RedZedMikey;3194000]4.) Barbagallo (OK, I'm WA origin, I admit to the bias)

I agree a great little track with exciting corners and bends. Three wide over the hill, 2 into the first corner continuing to duel all the way through the esses plus go off the road and the quicksand gets you.

[david5]

1. Phillip Island.
2.Bathurst.
3.Sandown.
4.Symonds Plains.
5.Waneroo.

[Average Punter]

As a spectator?
Bathurst
Phillip Island
Symmons
Winton
Sandown

[puma]

AMAROO PARK
CATALINA PARK
ORAN PARK
SURFERS PARADISE INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY
WARWICK FARM

[Micklegend]

I miss Oran...had the best of everything. Could practically see the whole place from anywhere as a spectator, great racing, passing, ups/downs/the flip flop...final corner into pit lane always interesting...and turn 1 and 2 as a dicey passing spot. Hey...it had a bridge!!!

Never saw a bad race there, you could always follow who was where and the atmosphere on the hill on a Sunday arvo was brilliant. Nothing like watching in anticipation as someone left the pits as another car was screaming down the hill on the main straight...just a great place.

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Originally Posted by Micklegend

I miss Oran...had the best of everything. Could practically see the whole place from anywhere as a spectator, great racing, passing, ups/downs/the flip flop...final corner into pit lane always interesting...and turn 1 and 2 as a dicey passing spot. Hey...it had a bridge!!!

Never saw a bad race there, you could always follow who was where and the atmosphere on the hill on a Sunday arvo was brilliant. Nothing like watching in anticipation as someone left the pits as another car was screaming down the hill on the main straight...just a great place.

Couldn't agree more.
I was judging the tracks from the current calendar, so add Oran and omit Hidden Valley from my list.

[david5]

I picked as per the thread heading. I have walked Catalina & it must have been awesome. Went to Amaroo & OP & miss them dearly

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Originally Posted by david5

I picked as per the thread heading. I have walked Catalina & it must have been awesome. Went to Amaroo & OP & miss them dearly

Catalina was the first track that my dad took me to. Happy to say that I was too young to remember much about it.

[Downoz]

Lowood
Longford
Hume Weir
Catalina
Amaroo



All gone but what great tracks.

[pigs fly]

Originally Posted by Downoz

Lowood
Longford
Hume Weir
Catalina
Amaroo



All gone but what great tracks.

TOTALLY AGREE.

[pigs fly]

MY choice from current active tracks 1 BATHURST 2 CLIPSAL 3 PHILIP ISLAND 4 HIDDEN VALLEY 5 SANDOWN

[Marcos WTF]

I'll confine my self to tracks that I've seen on TV, or in person.

Bathurst. 2013 will be my 20th year
Lakeside. (not current, but fast, flowing & close to my humble abode)
Sandown.
P.I.
Winton.

I went to Surfers ( the real track- not that street abortion) in the 60's.
Don't remember it well enough to comment.

[david5]

I don't undestand how anyone could pick any of the street tracks. I think people confuse crashing into walls with motor racing, but hey, what ever floats your boat.

[dsg]

Originally Posted by david5

I don't undestand how anyone could pick any of the street tracks. I think people confuse crashing into walls with motor racing, but hey, what ever floats your boat.

But I likie Bathurst...

[greynomad]

Bathurst and Phillip Island cleally ahead, Albert Park is great then I would say Adelaide and Hombush.
Of the old tracks creek corner at Warwick Farm was good and Amaroo too (I'm from Sydney).
For a laugh Hume Weir.

[david5]

Originally Posted by dsg

But I likie Bathurst...

I know your only baiting me. Bathurst is a circuit that is also a public road. It is a permanent facility. If I was there now I would say "look a race track" & it looks like one 365 days a year, the others do not.