The on-track schedule for the 2024 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival on March 16-17 has been released.
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Following on from a day of private practice and the 2024 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival Gouger Street Party free community event on Friday March 15, the Victoria Park Sprint component of the 2024 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival takes place on Saturday March 16 and Sunday March 17 on the Victoria Park section of the Adelaide Street Circuit.
The Victoria Park Sprint features 18 different categories ranging from Formula 1 cars, V8 Supercars, sportscars, touring cars, drift cars, motorbikes and more. With up to 18 cars/motorbikes on track at any one time, the action is non-stop without a break in track activity at any stage of the day, from gates opening at 8:30am to the conclusion of the day at 6pm. Cars and motorbikes are untimed but run at full speed in spirited demonstrations. The session times for categories are mostly mirrored across both days, making it even easier for fans to follow.
New for 2024 is the PremiAir Bathurst winners’ category (featuring original winners from the Bathurst 500/1000), Repco Circuit Safari, Rally, Aussie Muscle and expanded Motorbikes and Drift categories. There will be three Formula 1 sessions per day, including a demonstration session, which is an increase on previous years, alongside demonstrations such as the ‘Ferrari Spettacolo’, Repco Circuit Safari with more still be confirmed, while each day will end with an hour-long Drift competition.
The list of categories include:
- Formula 1
- Tipo F1
- Invitational
- PremiAir Hire Bathurst winners
- V8 Supercars
- Heritage Touring Cars
- Ferrari Spettacolo
- Motorbikes
- Rally
- Sports Prototypes
- Drift
- GT Style
- Porsche Rennsport
- Ferrari
- Exotics
- Aussie Muscle
- Demonstrations
- Repco Circuit Safari
The PremiAir Hire Bathurst winners’ category celebrates the recent 60th anniversary of the Bathurst 500/1000, featuring original winning cars from various eras of the event such as the two-time winning Holden VH SS Commodore (1982 and 1983) and Holden ZB Commodore (2020 and 2022) plus the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32s that won in 1991 and 1992 and more.
The ‘Ferrari Spettacolo’ will be the greatest gathering of special edition Ferraris in the southern hemisphere, with the demonstration taking place on both days. It features the likes of a Ferrari 250 LM, LaFerrari, Ferrari FXX, Ferrari 599XX, Ferrari Enzo, Ferrari F40 and more.
The Repco Circuit Safari will allow lucky guests and fans to be in a bus on track alongside a selection of race cars, enabling the passengers the once in a life-time experience of seeing and hearing iconic sportscars, touring cars and more up close.
“It’s the sound” is the mantra for the 2024 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival. Celebrating the glory days of motorsport, the sound of star cars will be a core attraction of the event, such as the rotary-powered Mazda 767B sportscar (Invitational); grand prix cars from the V8 and V10 era of Formula 1 (Formula 1); turbo-charged and V8-powered Bathurst-winning cars such as the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32s and various Holden Commodore V8s (PremiAir Hire Bathurst winners); the Lanica Beta Montecarlo Turbo Group 5 sportscar and Mercedes-Benz 190E DTM Group A touring car (Invitational); motorcycle grand prix bikes such as the Yamaha YZR 500cc and Aprilia ART GP13 (Motorbikes); and more still to be confirmed.