The Adelaide Street Circuit commences pit straight in
Victoria Park. It is long and faces northwest. All the buildings and grandstands are temporary and were removed each year. At the end of the straight, drivers negotiate the Senna Chicane, named after
Ayrton Senna following his death at the
1994 San Marino Grand Prix. After the chicane the cars take a fast left turn to go uphill on a short straight on Wakefield Road to
East Terrace before the first of three 90 degree corners. A fourth 90 degree followed onto Bartels Road back across the parklands. Then the track follows the fast turn 8 sweeper. The full Grand Prix circuit bypasses the turn onto Bartels Road and continues with a sweeping left-right-right into Stag Turn (turn 9). This leads onto the long
Rundle Road that was named after
Alan Jones. In 2017, the building and opening of the
O-Bahn Busway access and tunnel running off of
Grenfell Street and across the circuit where the sweeping left-right-right (turns 7, 8 and 9) were made it necessary to actually move turns 7 and 8 approximately 100 metres to the south. While not affecting the overall length of the full circuit, it would make the run from turn 6 shorter and the run to turn 9 longer. The sweeping bends were also known as Banana Bend due to its location adjacent to the Adelaide Fruit Markets. Brewery Bend is a fast right-hand sweeper named after the
Kent Town Brewery that opens onto
Dequetteville Terrace. The Dequetteville Terrace straight (named after
Jack Brabham for Formula One and
Peter Brock for the Adelaide 500) was a stretch where the over Formula One cars in the turbo era (1985–88) were reaching speeds in excess of making Adelaide easily the fastest street circuit of the time as the only others were the much tighter
Monaco,
Detroit and
Phoenix circuits. The short form of the track rejoins Brabham Straight two-thirds of the way down, so the long Bartels Road straight is longest on that layout. In 2007 this section of track was renamed Brock Straight after touring car driver Peter Brock. At the end of Brabham Straight is a right hand
hairpin turn (at the
Britannia Roundabout) that directs the driver back onto Wakefield Road. After accelerating out of the hairpin the driver faces a left turn and a long sweeping right-hand curve back into Victoria Park behind the pit area. The lap concludes with another right-hand hairpin (Racetrack Hairpin) onto the pit straight. The track is essentially flat except for a small valley on the Brock Straight, and a slight incline on Jones Straight, while the run-up Wakefield Road from turns 3 to 4 also has a slight incline. All of these sections of the track run in an east–west direction. The elevation ranges from . During the Formula One and early V8 Supercar eras the Victoria Park Racecourse, a
horse racing track, was located at the park, though has since been removed. ==Sprint Circuit==