Albert Park Circuit, Street Circuit

The Albert Park Circuit runs through parkland around Albert Park Lake, roughly two kilometres south of central Melbourne, Australia. It has hosted the Formula One Australian Grand Prix since 1996, but motor racing on the site stretches back to the 1950s, when figures such as Stirling Moss and a young Jack Brabham raced there before local opposition ended events after 1958. Racing returned in 1996 when the state government secured the Grand Prix from rival city Adelaide, reusing many of the original parkland roads, now resurfaced and run in the opposite direction, and adding a permanent pit and paddock complex. Because most of the lap uses public roads, the temporary circuit is assembled each year with fencing, grandstands and overpasses, then dismantled within weeks of the event, giving it a hybrid feel between a true road course and a street circuit. For decades the largely flat layout was criticised for limited overtaking, prompting a major revision in 2021 that finally debuted in 2022. Several corners were widened, the chicane at the old Turns 9 and 10 was removed to create the circuit's longest straight and a new DRS zone, and two corners were eliminated, leaving a faster, more flowing lap of 5.280 km. The Supercars Championship and other support categories race on the same layout as part of the Grand Prix weekend. A quirk of its history is that the modern lap's official length once gained a thousandth of a mile purely through a change in FIA measurement methods.

Operated by: Australian Grand Prix Corporation