Adelaide Grand Prix

McLaren’s Gerhard Berger works his way through ‘Stag Corner' on his way to victory at the 1992 Adelaide Grand Prix.

Image from Honda Racing F1.

Williams' Nigel Mansell at the 1985 Adelaide Grand Prix. After qualifying on the front row and taking the lead at the start, Mansell was forced to retire following contact with the Lotus of Ayrton Senna on the opening lap.

Image from Honda Racing F1.

The wet Adelaide Grand Prix races in 1989 and 1991.

Images from F1 and McLaren.

Michele Alboreto ahead of his 194th and last Formula 1 start at the 1994 Adelaide Grand Prix.

Image from F1.

Nigel Mansell was the only driver to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Adelaide Grand Prix in the same year (1994 📷), while Eddie Cheever was the only winner of the Indianapolis 500 (1998) who raced in an Adelaide Grand Prix.

Images from Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Atlassian Williams F1 Team.

The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal has a tradition of drivers claiming their maiden Formula 1 wins at the circuit. In the Adelaide Grand Prix era, it was Thierry Boutsen and Jean Alesi.

Boutsen scored his first win in the wet in 1989. He ended that season with another wet-weather win at the Adelaide Grand Prix.

Alesi scored his one and only win there in 1995, on his birthday driving the #27 Ferrari made famous by Gilles Villeneuve at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. It was also the last win for a V12 engine in Formula 1.

Images from Williams Racing, Scuderia Ferrari and F1.

The Formula 1 class of 1988 at the Adelaide Grand Prix.

Image from F1.

Skydiving into the 1992 Adelaide Grand Prix.

Image from Zesty Skydiver.

Ayrton Senna in the dominant McLaren MP4/4 Honda at the 1988 Adelaide Grand Prix.

Image from McLaren.

The start of the 1993 Adelaide Grand Prix.

Image from F1.