The Strangest Race Track Ever? | Symmons Plains Raceway In Tasmania, Australia.
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Symmons Plains Raceway is located not far from the city of Launceston in Tasmania, Australia. This race track has featured series such as supercars, the s5000 series and much much more. This track is famous for it's hairpin and long back straight which sees high speeds and hard braking.
I visited Tasmania for a few days and found some time to tick this Australian motorsport icon off my list.
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My bro is making Australia proud... 👌🏼
Hahah thanks mate!
@@MadeByPerspective my pleasure 🤗
Wow, as a guy from a small island in Europe(Cyprus) this is really interesting, getting to know tracks from all around the globe and the layout is genuinely interesting
ngl the track kind of looks like Cyprus as well
@@pubusi4253 Hahahaha it does have some similarities, but here we have like 2 tracks and both are small
My grandfather was from Cyprus. And I'm a track Marshall at Symmons Plains. I'm not sure what this all means...
@@SteveK666 a sign... 😂😂
Same here in Portugal.
To be within 150m of the hairpin and watching the supercars go from about 250km/h to about 60km/h, is spectacular
Video gets released
Herman tilke: wait for meeeee😂
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As a Tassie, glad to hear you talking about the history. John Youl, the #2 at the Australian Grand Pix in 1962, founded it from part of the family estate. They owned the neighbouring farm and grand house up until 2011, when they sold it. The media mistakenly reported J.K Rowling had bought the house, but it was actually bought as a farm by Swedish billionaires.
The speakers playing the radio may be part of the sponsorship deal with the local radio station?
0:11 Aeroplanes! I remember them. Wow, to fly again seems crazy.
I raced there once.
Well, it was for an Inter-schools cross country event through the fields surrounding the track, but you know, still a race, kinda.
Very funny
Dude, I used to love racing this track online on the old V8 Supercars 3 game, like, over a decade ago. The hairpin is great.
Not sure how easily you can move around back home, but I'd like to see more of these. Maybe check out some tracks that dropped off the V8 calendar, like Mallala Motorsport Park in Adelaide. Even see if you can find an abandoned track? I dunno, just throwing stuff out there. :)
Maybe Calder Park?
@@henriquepaladino3779 looking at this video - definitely - ruclips.net/video/AyzLtk19D0c/видео.html
@@barkslife Calder Park is wild, would love to see a video exploring that place.
@@PSMotorsport Well, I'm more intrigued as to where you're from, now? Looking at your channel. I grew up in Pooraka... ;)
@@barkslife I grew up in Adelaide but have since moved to Melbourne. I head back to Adelaide pretty regularly for motorsport events 👌
U should do Baskerville Raceway Hobart
F1 cars lapping this circuit in 3 seconds would be 🅱️iblical.....
baskerville is a much better track
The drop off around the hairpin is so steep alot of supercars on the inside lane lift a wheel.
The superbikes go around it 4-5 wide sometimes.
It has one of the fastest corners with the superbikes doing up around 300kph with their knee down and head over the grass.
The chicane was added before the bridge for safety for the superbike series and local bike series because the layout with the corner ending on a crest just before the bridge was pushing the bikes into the outside barrier and even caused a fatal crash/decapitation quite a few years ago. So that extra corner is there to have the bikes having a straight run up.
This also helped the drift layout in later years.
Cam Donald also ran a 56 second lap on a full stock street trim CBR1000RR on a teaching weekend which is at pace with tassie's best riders on race bikes (well it was in 2013 anyway)
Just a little more info on the track :)
I like this kinda circuit stuff
But I’m not telling you to waste money unless you want to
Edit: if you do go to Byron bay and make a FORZA 3 style video
Now that’s an idea
@@MadeByPerspective just don't leave the car, then you won't have to deal with the people
I’ve been here (live in Tasmania) and uhh, honestly had no idea that the racetrack had anything special about it. I agree with the mountains comment, here wherever we go there’s mountains and it just feels so cosy.
The layout is also unchanged since it was originally built, so very much an old school track. Only slight design difference from the 60s is the start line position (which was on the straight before the hairpin, and the pits being on the outside instead of the inside).
Thought the thumbnail was Cyprus lol
It’s pretty fun to race on, but Baskerville is smaller but heaps more fun.
*mmmmm yum, tomahawk steak.*
I am from Tasmania and have done 5-6 events on this trak. words do not to it justicew it really is an amazing all round track. i just wish there were more events held here!
Imagine if the FIA made this the Australia GP Circuit instead of Albert Park
Geez
I'm a Tasmanian so I love that track, but I think Baskerville has the potential to be the greatest track in Australia if they use the hill where people park their cars, if you look at that track it could have the elevation changes, mixture of low, medium, and fast corners, with amazing spectator viewing.
But I must say, after looking at the Symmons Plains map in the way you present it, I'd probably name the track Pinocchiock. I'll let you work that one out...
I hope you managed to go to Longford just up the road where the Australian grand Prix used to be held, lot's of f1 history there. Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Sterling Moss, Jim Clarke all raced there, not many people know about the Tasman series, might make a good video, it was a different time!
If you didn't read my whole message before, go to Longford! The racing history is amazing!
Baskerville is a small track though. Don't see it hosting any major series unless it changes dramatically, which would likely result in it losing its character.
@@callummclachlan4771 yeah, what I proposed keeps the track as it is now, but adds another 1-2 kms from the end of the straight until the start of the pit straight. There are few tracks anywhere that offer the elevation that Baskerville has on land it already owns. Just continue the straight up the hill, follow the skyline and back down again. It would change a small boring track into a medium length baller track.
One of the best smaller tracks around, fast & great for passing. It’s a shame he didn’t show much on the hairpin that’s what it’s famous for, many different race lines, under braking, going through the corner and hard acceleration. Great spectator viewing.
Fascinating track. I hadn’t really heard of it until I was watching the Supercars the other week. Some of the moves on that hairpin 👌🏼👌🏼
Hold up, isn't this the track where the V8 Supercars had that massive pile-up in the rain?
Yes
Woah this track is tasmaniacal
It is one of my favourite race tracks... Been around a few times on my old Ninja. Very fun. Very tight. Very technical.
Tasmanian race track. Lap around Symmons Plains Woolworths car park.
Tazmanians be racing on a Tomahawk steak
It's strange but interesting, it has it's own character, unlike the insipid Herman Tilke F1 tracks. Keep em' comin'.
One of the best tracks we have, very unique and always epic racing. So many great memories of touring car races over the years
I highsided there racing proddies in the 80s,came out of the hairpin and hit 4th gear and the back wheel stopped going around,V#@&oline gear oil ,havent bought that product ever again,oh ...it hurt.
Brother check out the Mallala Motorsports Park South Australia it used to be a Raaf Base for where War 1 and 2
Here before million sub's gang
I wish!
And if you think Symmons plains is good, you need check out baskiville.
The best way I can describe Baskiville is it's a mini Bathurst, the elevation is awesome, there's not one bad corner on the track.
Definitely will head up there next time!
@@MadeByPerspective it's worth a look😁👍
The layout looks a little bit like Cyprus
Cyprus is that you
I'm guessing they tried to make it look like a kiwi because it's Australia
fond memories of tasmania ,i spent not enough time there in my teens ,went for a week and stayed a year
the track is not symmons plains to me it's symmon swamps to me because of 2017
Why do I think about the tasmanian devil from looney tunes
I c o n i c
I remember taking a video from that exact spot at 2:42 It’s a nice track ngl!
A bad pit and you could be lapped by the guy you were racing
Simmons track looks like an ancient Fijian war club
One of my fave tracks in the world.
Been round that track many times on a superbike.
It's definitely a dated track! Need widening and extending
F1 be lucky to do a 39sec lap. 49 is fast
Imagine an f1 race around here
Haas would be getting lapped about 20 times or more!
@@mikespearwood3914 Mazepin would spin at the hairpin on lap 1 and it would take him just as long to get going again as the leader would need to catch up.
Baskervile > symmons Plains
It should be called the Lamb Chop!,
My local track (live about an hour and a half away). Never really seen it as anything special haha. Actually quite boring unless you’ve got a powerful car. Definitely a horsepower track. Fun to watch drifting though ✌🏻
Worst track on tha planet!!!
How is this weirder than a paper clip
Looks like a Tomahawk Steak !
I'm just watching the 2000 German GP, you should do a video on ye olde Hockenheim, the German Monza, that's a track that changed for the worse, but it had some awesome racing.
Looks like a lamb chop!
Looks like a pork chop..
Some of the best races ever are seen here .
Certainly club circuits often have skinny pit entires/exits. I guess because they mostly accommodate bikes and when they have cars it's a lower class
I live in Tasmania
I've just discovered your channel, love it! You should do a similar vlog on Mt Panorama, it's public road so easy to do a shoot around there.
I live in Tasmania and it’s the only racetrack I’ve seen. We had our high school road education there......I honestly thought it was a normal racetrack 😅
oh shit, I have been there .lol
That turn out of the hairpin looks tighter that it does on TV.
You have to see it in the flesh to really appreciate it
I think it is an awesome little track. I've never been there but have seen it on TV heaps of times and it is track I believe should be a permanent fixture on the V8Supercars calendar.
Styled on doing blockies around Launceston and Hobart. Local petrol heads have an advantage as they are used to driving around places like that from their first days of L plates.
This was really nice to share with friends and family over seas. Ride days are a blast here, and though I take a bit of video at them, your video pays nice respect. Thanks for making it
Watching the v8s there is bloody sick as you shouldve came when they had drifting or something on there for you to watch
The bloke that built the track, built it to practice on for longford. The back straight was called conrod straight not sure when the name went
I reckon low to mid 30's... have always wanted to visit there.
Me: Dad can we have Hockenheimring at home?
*Hockenheimring at home*
Symmons Plain seems like Australia's Knockhill
Simmons plains is ripper a track, especially when supercars race there
Such a good track, great viewing when I went there for V8 Supercars and something happens at every corner
Damn I'm first. This is cool, a raceway in Tazmania
Subbed! Awesome channel
Watching the V8’s race on the hill allows you to see almost the entire track. It’s a tight track.
I live in Tasmania and the backward entry's are epic
The layout looks like a short hockey stick with a tumour at the back
That's pretty cool! Would be awesome to have someone give you a ride around the circuit, even at slow speeds. Thanks for showing a cool track!
Thanks for watching mate!
Coulda had a brew or a nice blunt while you visited 🤣
This little unit is just down the road
Looks like a tomahawk.
Tasmania is a crazy place
Looks like Cyprus
Tasmania represent!
As Tasos boy this is one of my favourite things
You are a true fan, awesome to see.
Thanks 😀
you should go to the bend and sandown
Sandown is pretty close! Maybe I’ll go there
Wow mate, out of all of the Aussie states, it's probably Tasmania and Hobart that I know the least about. Symmons Plains looks like an enjoyable track to drive! Great vid, as always mate!
Thanks brother!
Hard to believe this track is still certified by the FIA