Australian Racing Drivers' Club
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Announcements, member news, race weekends, community stories, venue works and sustainability progress — from the not‑for‑profit club that has operated Sydney Motorsport Park since 1996. One newsroom, every story.
One of Australian motorsport’s great gatherings comes back to Eastern Creek. Muscle Car Masters has been part of the Sydney Motorsport Park calendar for years, and the 2026 running returns to the venue across the August long weekend.
Continue ReadingAnnouncements, member offers, race weekends and venue works — newest first.
Renewals and new memberships for the 2026 season are open. ARDC membership is the Club’s front door — competition pathways, member pricing and access to the venue that members collectively own.
Continue ReadingEvents for every rider — ride days, come-and-try days, grassroots motorcycle racing at SMSP, and where licences fit in.
Continue ReadingThe Q2 waste audit landed at 79.3% diversion — 254.95 m³ kept out of landfill across 270.74 hours of hand sorting.
Continue ReadingThe MEGA ride day program is locked in at Eastern Creek for another five years — continuity for the largest motorcycle track-day series in the country.
Continue Reading“With more than 50 years of dedication to motorsport, Tony Thorne has built a remarkable career as a motorsport official.”
The Sustainable Circuits Index ranks SMSP first in Australia again — five years running.
Continue ReadingMembers receive an exclusive buy-one-get-one-free offer on tickets to the World Time Attack Challenge.
Continue ReadingMember access arrangements for the Australian Superbike Championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Continue ReadingHow to navigate the venue on an event day — gates, paddocks, grandstands and the pit complex.
Continue ReadingOne of Australian motorsport’s great gatherings comes back to Eastern Creek across the August long weekend.
Continue ReadingThe conditions attached to the Club’s member referral offer, published in full.
Continue ReadingThree decades of racing at Eastern Creek, marked at the venue the Club has operated since 1996.
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One organisation speaks in three registers — the Club, the venue, and the letter addressed to members. They sit in one feed here. Pick a masthead to read only that one.
The Club speaking
The venue speaking
Addressed to members
Sydney Motorsport Park became the first circuit in Australia to hold Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile environmental accreditation — two stars of three, and one of roughly twenty circuits worldwide to hold the standard at all.
Four guides the Club published together, for anyone working out how to get on track for the first time. Each one hands off to the part of this site that takes it further.
Where car racing begins — the event types that welcome newcomers, and what to expect.
Ride days, come-and-try days and grassroots motorcycle events at Sydney Motorsport Park.
The two sanctioning bodies that issue car competition licences in Australia, and which one you need.
Motorcycling Australia is the national governing body — here is how road racing fits in.
A club is its members, its officials and its volunteers. These are the Club’s own words about them.
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More than fifty years of dedication to motorsport, and a remarkable career as a motorsport official.
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The women competing, officiating and working across Sydney Motorsport Park, profiled for International Women’s Day.
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“Darren’s passion for motorsport ran deep; not just as a competitor, but as a leader, mentor and mate.”
28 Jul 2025The permanent lighting installation that made Sydney Motorsport Park the most-lit permanent circuit in the country, and put night racing on the calendar for good.
The partnership behind the venue’s digital infrastructure and the Australian Motorsport Innovation Precinct — engineering, education and electrification at the circuit.
The venue’s own documentary series — the community, the sustainability record and the people behind a race weekend, told on camera rather than in a press release.
More from ARDC TVThe Club publishes its guidelines, its commitments and its audited accounts. All of them are public, and all of them are here.
What the venue asks of every event hirer — waste streams, packaging, energy, water and the reporting obligation that follows an event.
The Club’s one-page statement of position — the environmental, social and economic pillars it measures itself against.
The audited accounts of a not-for-profit club. Where the surplus went, and what it built at the circuit.
Looking for governance documents, the constitution or earlier accounts? Governance & Reporting holds the full set.
Thirteen years of announcements, race reports and club notices, still online. Travel back through the record.
The Fanbelt is the ARDC’s member newsletter — the President’s message, the month at Sydney Motorsport Park, member offers, partner news and what is coming next. One email a month.
Not a member yet? Membership opens the rest of it.
Sustainability
Racing Green — the audited record
Australia’s only FIA-accredited circuit, and the numbers behind
it.
Events
What’s on at Sydney Motorsport Park
The full calendar — majors, club rounds, ride days and test
days.
Membership
Join the Club
Member news, member pricing, and a say in the venue members
collectively own.
Community
The Club in Western Sydney
NIGHTDRIVE, Formula SAE, school cross country and the Spring Fair.
There is no fixed schedule. Announcements go out when there is something to announce — a calendar change, a membership window opening, a partnership, a result from the quarterly waste audit. The one reliable rhythm is the Fanbelt, the member newsletter, which goes out monthly. If you want everything, subscribe to that.
They are the three voices of one organisation. ARDC News is the Club speaking — governance, membership, competition. SMSP News is the venue speaking — circuit works, lighting, facilities, major event announcements. Member News is addressed to members specifically: offers, ballots, access arrangements and club notices. Most readers want all three, which is why they sit in one feed here.
To 2013. The oldest item still online is the announcement that V8 Supercars would return to Sydney Motorsport Park — a single paragraph thanking the NSW Government for its support. The Club itself was founded in 1952, so the online record is a recent slice of a much longer history.
Event accreditation runs through a single application pathway rather than this newsroom — see Media Accreditation, which covers the five accreditation pathways, the zones you can work in and the conditions of entry. For a comment or an interview request outside an event, contact the office on +61 2 9672 1000.
Quoting a story with attribution and a link back is welcome. Republishing an article in full, or using photography commercially, needs written permission first — some imagery is licensed from event photographers rather than owned outright, so we cannot clear it on your behalf. Ask the office before you publish.
Tell us and we will fix it. Dates move, results get amended and figures get restated after an audit — when that happens we would rather correct the record than leave it. Use the Report an issue link in the footer, or call the office.
Every announcement here started as something happening at a race track in Western Sydney. Come and see the next one.
