Gardner GP
The original Grand Prix lap and the one every guide starts on — fast, flowing, and crowned by the 200 km/h commitment of Turn One.
- 3.93 km
- 11 turns
- ≈3 sessions
Learn the Circuits
Know every corner before you arrive.
Four circuits. Day and night. Car, bike, drift and 4WD. Study the racing line, the braking points and the track craft here — so your first lap out of pit lane already feels like your fifty-first.
- 4 Circuits
- Day + Night
- Anti-Clockwise
- LED Floodlit
Build your session
Choose your machine. Choose your light.
Every discipline learns this venue differently — and after dark it becomes a different circuit again. Set both, and the whole page studies with you.
Discipline
Light
- Hours
- 06:30 – 18:00Evenings, floodlit
- On the straight
- Daylight800 lux
- Lighting
- Sun and shadow127 LED towers
- References
- Markers and kerbsLit kerbs, walked back
Session
Car
Day
Recommended start — Gardner GP
The course catalogue
Seven layouts. One syllabus.
The catalogue follows your session — pick a discipline above and the layouts that don't run it stand down. Select a circuit to load its guide.
Brabham
The Gardner lap plus 830 twisting metres — crest, descent, hairpin, climb. Learn it once the GP line is second nature.
- 4.50 km
- 18 turns
- ≈5 sessions
Druitt North
The northern half of the property — a banked right-hander over a blind crest with a downhill entry is the corner that teaches trust.
- 2.80 km
- 8 turns
- ≈2 sessions
Amaroo South
Short, sharp and technical around Corporate Hill — its own pit lane, and the friendliest place on the property to find your feet.
- 1.80 km
- 13 turns
- ≈1 session
Skidpan
9,000 m² of polished cement, floodable on demand — where car control and drift craft are built one slide at a time.
- 9,000 m²
- Wet / dry
- ≈1 session
Figure 8 Skid Circuit
A 321-metre crossover loop built for low-speed cornering skill — transitions, weight shift and throttle discipline on repeat.
- 321 m
- 1 crossover
- ≈1 session
4WD Offroad Circuit
Water splash, steep inclines and multiple graded tracks — learn what your 4WD can really do before you point it at the outback.
- Multi track
- Graded lines
- ≈1 session
The screening room
Watch the lap before you drive it.
An instructor talks you around the layout you selected — onboard first, then the same lap in the simulator, so the references are already familiar the morning you drive it.
Guide in production
The Brabham onboard is being filmed. Until it lands, study the blueprint below — the extension's crest–descent–hairpin story is all there.
Study the Blueprint
Guide in production
The Druitt North onboard is on the run sheet. The banked right-hander over the blind crest is mapped in the blueprint below.
Study the Blueprint
Guide in production
The Amaroo South onboard is coming. Its 13 corners around Corporate Hill are traced in the blueprint below.
Study the Blueprint
The syllabus
Learn. Prepare. Get on track.
Six modules and 47 minutes of reading between your screen and pit lane — study them in order and nothing on your first morning is a surprise.
Learn
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10min every layout · Foundation
Read the racing line
Wide in, clip the apex, wide out — the line is the largest radius the corner allows, because radius is speed. Look where you want the car to be, not where it is: vision leads, hands follow. Learn one reference per corner first — a braking marker, an apex kerb, an exit point — and let the rest arrive with laps.
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15min Gardner focus · Building
Corner anatomy — brake, turn, apex, exit
Brake in a straight line, finish braking before you turn, and be patient to the apex — the throttle you save is the exit speed you keep. Sydney Motorsport Park rewards exactly this discipline: Turns 17–18 decide the whole 700-metre straight. Work through all eleven named corners in Corner School.
Prepare
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10min every session · Foundation
Flags & track etiquette
- Green — track clear, session live
- Yellow — hazard ahead: slow, no passing
- Red — session stopped: safe pace to pit lane
- Blue — faster traffic behind: hold your line
- Chequered — session over: cool-down lap, then in
Hold your line and let faster traffic plan around you — predictable is polite. Passing rules are set at the morning briefing for your specific session and group.
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5min night · Building
Night sessions — racing under 800 lux
Australia's first permanently floodlit circuit runs 127 LED towers — 800 lux on the straight, 400 minimum everywhere else — and drivers describe the visibility as equal to daylight. The line doesn't change after dark; your references do. Walk your braking markers back a beat, trust the lit kerbs, and let your eyes settle over the first laps.
Get on track
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5min first-timers · Foundation
Your first day — the run sheet
- Gates — arrive early, breathe, unload
- Sign-on — licence check, scrutineering, garage
- Briefing — flags, passing rules, your group
- Sighting laps — learn the track at 60–70%
- Sessions — build pace one reference at a time
Speed is the last thing you add, not the first. Instructors are available all day — say yes to the passenger lap. Every licence, gear and preparation rule behind that sign-on desk lives in Track Access Requirements.
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2min your session · Foundation
Book the right session
Your selection above already points at the right product: cars run track days and floodlit track nights, bikes run graded ride days and ride nights, drift lives on the skidpan and 4WD on the terrain course. The session desk below routes you straight there — or start with rider training and driver experiences.
Circuit layouts
Study the blueprints.
The real geometry, drawn in race direction — anti-clockwise from the start/finish grid. Switch layouts to watch each one draw itself.
Corner school · Gardner GP
Eleven turns, by name.
Named for Allan Moffat, Colin Bond and Peter Brock — the heritage lives at the apex. Trace the lap corner by corner; the map follows your place in it.
Gardner GP · race direction anti-clockwise
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Turn-in from the right edge, level with the flag point — commitment, not bravery. If you run wide, take the run-off; never fight it back.
Build to this one across the day — roll speed in stages and keep your eyes deep through the corner. It rewards patience over courage.
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Start wide, mid-track entry, apex very late — the camber falls away, so the exit is earned on patience and second gear.
Late apex is your friend here — square it off, pick the bike up early and drive up the hill on the fat of the tyre.
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Approach from the right, apex early and let the car run out left — near-flat in a well-driven road car once the line is learned.
A rhythm corner — smooth arc, steady throttle, and let the exit open itself. Don't chase the apex.
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Brake lightly into the dip, aim for a mid-to-late uphill apex — the exit crest unloads the car, so be straight before you're fast.
The compression helps grip at the bottom, the crest takes it away — get your drive done early and hold your line over the rise.
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The camber is a gift — from mid-track, plant the throttle at the apex and let the banking carry you up the hill. Keep two wheels inside the limits.
Lean on the camber — it holds the bike better than anywhere else on the lap. Drive early and use every degree it gives you.
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Downhill braking is the test — start wide right, finish the brakes before turn-in, clip the ripple strip mid-corner and exit right.
Brake early and settle the bike before the slope — a calm entry here is worth two bike lengths at the exit.
- Turns 7–13 belong to the Brabham loop — the GP lap jumps straight to Turn 14.
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Daunting until it isn't — start far right, short-shift after the crest and commit. The track is there, even when you can't see it.
Learn it with sighting laps before you trust it — reference the marshal post, keep the body still and let the bike run over the crest.
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Tighter than it looks — from the far left, get on the power early and apex late. The camber pays you back on exit.
The classic overtaking zone, so hold a predictable line — square the exit and drive; the camber covers a multitude of sins.
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Keep left on the run down, ease it in gradually and apex at the middle — a corner you learn to stop thinking about.
Stay loose and let it flow — a light countersteer and steady throttle is all it asks.
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Treat them as two corners, not one — dab the brake into 17, short throttle, then a late apex through the long 18 left. Every km/h you carry out lives all the way down the straight.
Sacrifice 17 to win 18 — a tidy, upright exit onto the straight is the fastest thing you'll do all lap.
The circuit in numbers
Numbers you'll feel in your hands.
Six figures that decide how the lap is driven — the length of the commitment, the speed it arrives at, and the light it runs under.
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Turns on the Gardner GP lap — three of them named for champions
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Of Grand Prix tarmac, 15 m wide on the straight
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Flat out past the pit wall before Turn One asks its question
0km/h
Into Turn One — “nerves of steel required to tip it in”
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LED towers — Australia’s first permanently floodlit circuit
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Of extra Brabham loop when the GP lap isn’t enough
Know the property
Arrive like you've been before.
Half of first-day nerves is not knowing where anything is. Trace your day across the property — gate to sign-on to pit lane.
SMSP · Learning Map
Indicative plan · gates and paddock access vary by event
Session Desk
You know the line.
You know the line.
Now drive it.
The lights are on.
Come use them.
Everything on this page is waiting at Eastern Creek — the corners, the camber, the 800 lux. Your session selection carries straight through to booking.
Before you ask
Learning the track, answered.
Right here — watch the guided lap, walk through Corner School, then book a beginner-graded session. First-timers are grouped with similar pace, briefed properly, and instructors are available all day. The track has seen ten thousand first laps; yours will be fine.
No — a current road licence, a roadworthy car in sound condition and a helmet cover a track day. Riders join graded ride-day groups from first-timer to racer; full leathers and an approved helmet are required on the bike side. The full rulebook sits in Track Access Requirements.
Video first, track second: watch the guided lap until the corner sequence is familiar, then use your sighting laps at 60–70% to match what you saw to what you feel. Add one reference per corner per session — a braking marker, an apex, an exit kerb — and the lap assembles itself.
The venue numbers every corner once, across all configurations. Turns 7–13 live on the 830-metre Brabham loop — when you lap the Gardner GP circuit, you skip that loop, so the numbering skips with you. Learn the GP lap and you already know eleven of Brabham's eighteen corners.
Less than you'd think — 127 LED towers hold the circuit at 800 lux on the straight and at least 400 everywhere else, and drivers rate the visibility as equal to daylight. The racing line is identical; only your references change. Ease into the first laps and let your eyes settle.
Scheduled track nights and ride nights run the Gardner GP circuit under the permanent floodlights, with the venue licensed for night activity until 10:30pm. The full property — every configuration — is lit for events and private hire.