Oran Park Raceway

Oran Park Raceway
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Location = Narellan, New South Wales
Time = UTC +10
Opened = 1962
Events = V8 Supercar Australian Grand Prix Superbike World Championship Castrol 6 Hour
Length km = 2.7
Length mi = 1.69
Turns = 12
Record time = 1:01.6718
Record driver = Tim Leahey
Record team = Reynard 92D
Record year = 2000
Record class = Formula Holden

Oran Park Raceway is a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney, Australia. Most of the circuit is visible from the main grandstand or the grassed banks surrounding the track.

Oran Park Raceway has several track layouts. It was established on 1 January 1963 with what was mostly like the current South Circuit. The first motorcycle race meeting was held on 17 February, with reigning Grand Prix Champion Jim Redman being the star attraction. Redman won nearly every class and set the lap record of 50.4 seconds, only 0.8 seconds slower than Frank Matich's outright time set in a 2.6 litre Lotus Sports Car.

The full track ("Grand Prix Circuit") was added in the early 1970s. It is a 2.7 kilometre figure-eight shape with a bridge where the track crosses itself. Despite the loop in the longest track shape, the circuit is regarded as racing anticlockwise.

Oran Park also has a motocross track, a skidpan, a dirt track and four wheel drive course and is used for advanced driver training.

Oran Park was used regularly for rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship, V8 Supercar Championship Series, Australian Drivers' Championship and Australian Sports Sedan Championship. The Australian Grand Prix was held at Oran Park in 1974 and 1977. In the 1970’s the circuit attracted large crowds for the popular Toby Lee Series, initially run for Series Production Touring Cars and later for Sports Sedans. The inaugural Rothmans 500 for Touring Cars was staged in 1977 but the 1978 event was to be the second and last running of this endurance race. Endurance touring car races would continue at Oran Park well into the 1980s and apart from the Sandown and Bathurst classics would last the longest before fading interest caused the compression of the endurance season to just those two events. The final such Oran Park enduro would by the 1989 Pepsi 300.

In 1988 and 1989, Oran Park played host to Australia's rounds of the Superbike World Championship.

Recently, the land on which the racetrack is on was sold to the Government of New South Wales for a new housing development. This will lead to the closure of the track during 2010 and will end 47 years of motorsport heritage at the facility.

Top Gear Australia visited the track numerous times during its second season when they reviewed cars such as the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X and the Audi RS6.

Australian Touring Car Championship

Oran Park Raceway has hosted a round of the Australian Touring Car Championship every year since 1971. 2008 was the final year of Oran Park in the V8 Supercar Championship Series. Allan Moffat and Mark Skaife are the most successful drivers at Oran Park in the ATCC, with six round wins each.

Lap Records

Current lap records for the Grand Prix circuit, italics indicate use of short circuit:

Class	Driver	Vehicle	Time	Date
Outright	Tim Leahey	Reynard 92D Holden	1:01.6718	30/07/00
Racing Cars
Formula Holden	Tim Leahey	Reynard 92D Holden	1:01.6718	30/07/00
Formula Three	Michael Caruso	Dallara 301 Fiat	1:03.9747	13/07/03
Formula 5000	Warwick Brown	Lola T332	1:05.2	17/11/74
Formula Ford	Steven Richards	Van Diemen RF94	1:11.5614	24/07/94
Formula Vee 1200	Benjamin Porter	Jacer	1:21.9271	19/07/03
Formula Vee 1600	Ryan Simpson	Jacer F2k6	1:18.8632	19/06/06
Sports Cars
Nations Cup	Paul Stokell	Lamborghini Diablo GT	1:08.6267	13/07/03
Carrera Cup	Alex Davison	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Car	1:09.6224	13/08/03
GT Championship	Greg Crick	Dodge Viper GTS ACR	1:11.2863	07/05/06
Invitation Sports Cars	Stan Adler	Porsche 911 Coupe	1:15.6234	30/08/98
GT Performance	Bob Pearson	Mazda RX-7	1:16.0830	13/07/03
Aussie Racing Cars	Nick Percat	ARC Falcon-Yamaha	1:16.6124	12/08/06
MG-F Trophy	Warren Luff	MG-F Trophy	1:23.5348	17/08/03
Touring Cars
V8 Supercar	Craig Lowndes	Holden VT Commodore	1:08.0630	15/09/99
Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series	Dean Canto	Ford EL Falcon	1:10.3812	16/06/00
Sports Sedan	Kerry Bailey	Nissan 300ZX-Chevrolet	1:06.8983	28/07/01
Super Touring	Brad Jones	Audi A4 Quattro	1:10.0464	30/08/98
Performance Cars	Chris Alajajian	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	1:15.6008	13/08/05
Club Cars	Wayne Wakefield	Mazda 808 Station Wagon	1:16.8968	30/08/98
Commodore Cup	Ashley Cooper	Holden VS Commodore	1:18.2003	22/04/07
Saloon Cars	Kris Walton	Ford AU Falcon	1:19.7760	28/10/06
Production Cars	Scott Loadsman	Holden VX Commodore	1:20.3087	24/11/01
Mirage Series	Warren Luff	Mitsubishi Mirage RS	1:20.7364	15/08/99
V8 Utes	Grant Johnson	Holden VZ SS Ute	1:21.4087	07/05/06
HQ Holden	Vince Gatt	HQ Holden	1:27.6977	15/08/99
Super Trucks	Ian 'Inky' Tulloch	Freightliner Trucks	0:52.4607	24/03/02
Historic Touring Cars
Touring Car Masters	Brad Tilley	Ford XY Falcon GT	1:18.0730	07/12/08
Group Nb	Cameron Tilley	Chrysler Valiant S Series	1:21.6603	18/06/00
Motorcycles
Superbikes	Mat Mladin	Kawasaki ZX-6R	1:10.2005	06/08/95
Formula Xtreme Motorcycles	Kevin Curtain	Yamaha YZF1000R	1:10.8232	11/10/98