Australia is known the world over for some of the most exciting street circuits in auto racing, and Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, boasts one of the finest. Its first event, part of the 1985 World Driver's Championship, earned the Race Promoters' Trophy as the best-promoted event of the season, and its last event in that championship set an attendance record with 210,000 people. Racing through the streets of Adelaide returned in 1999 thanks to Supercars, and the event has been a staple of that calendar ever since.

The modern Adelaide layout clocks in at an even two miles (3.219 km), with 14 turns. The lap begins with the complex Senna Chicane, which produces some of the most compelling photography in motorsport as Supercars can quite literally fly through the kerbing. Lengthy straightaways on the back half of the lap lead into the Dequetteville Hairpin, Victoria Park section, and finally the Mistral Hairpin that sets drivers up for a charge to the finish line.