The Bend Motorsport Park

The Bend Motorsport Park, currently known as Shell V-Power Motorsport Park for naming rights reasons, is a 7.770 km bitumen motor racing circuit at Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia, about 100 km south-east of the state capital, Adelaide.

The complex has a bitumen circuit, drag racing strip, and drift racing circuit.

The race circuits are of a high international standard and licensed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) for car racing and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) for motorcycle racing.

The circuit name was changed as Shell V-Power Motorsport Park from August 2023.

History
In February 2015, Peregrine Corporation lodged plans with the Government of South Australia to redevelop the former Mitsubishi Motors Australia test track at Tailem Bend, South Australia. Approval was granted in May 2015 with construction commencing in March 2016. Initially titled the South Australian Motorsport Park, by the time construction commenced, The Bend Motorsport Park name had been adopted.

The address of the site was originally in Elwomple. In September 2017, before the facility opened, the boundary between Tailem Bend and Elwomple was adjusted so that The Bend Motorsport Park is officially in Tailem Bend, not Elwomple.

The first major event was the Revolve24 Endurance Cycling Challenge on 13–14 January 2018, an ultra-distance cycling festival featuring 24-hour, 12-hour and 6-hour races. It hosted The Bend SuperSprint, a round of the 2018 Supercars Championship, in August 2018. It has a desire to hold a MotoGP Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix round.

On 4–14 January 2019, the circuit hosted the 25th Australian Scout Jamboree. From January 10–12, 2020 it hosted a round of the 2019–20 Asian Le Mans Series season as the 4 Hours of The Bend and the Supercars sprint round will be replaced by a new endurance event, The Bend 500. The Supercars race was later dropped from the calendar altogether, in a shortened calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with circuit managing director Sam Shahin openly critical of the cancellation. After multiple changes in the Supercars calendar, it was announced that the track will held a doubleheader in late September.

Sam Shahin also offered up the facility for Hotel Quarantine during the Covid pandemic, but this was not taken up by the South Australian Government.

International Circuit
Length: 4.950 km
 * Used for majority of events including Supercars, Superbikes and national series events, through to state racing, club racing and track hire

GT Circuit
Length: 7.770 km
 * Used for endurance racing, specialist racing events, private hire and test days. Hosted a four-hour Asian Le Mans Series event in January 2020.

West Circuit
Length: 3.410 km
 * Used for the majority of short track events. Includes club racing, testing, sprint events, “cruising” events, driver/rider training
 * Used for 2020 OTR SuperSprint The Bend event in 2020 Supercars Championship
 * Can be used independently from the East Circuit

East Circuit
Length: 3.930 km
 * Used for driver/rider training, drifting, testing, club days, private days
 * Can be used independently from the West Circuit

West PLUS Circuit
Length: 3.66 km

Sprint Circuit
Length: 2.784 km

Southwest Circuit
Length: 1.81 km

North Circuit
Length: 1.34 km

Karting Circuit
Length: 1.1 km

Drag Strip
Length: 0.402 km

Pit building and hotel
Construction commenced in February 2017 for the 300 m long pit building which includes hotel accommodation in the upper levels of the four-storey building. There are 34 pit garages. The 100 room Rydges Pit Lane Hotel opened in 2019.

Events

 * Current
 * March: Australian Superkart Championship
 * May: Formula 4 Australian Championship
 * June: Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia, GT World Challenge Australia Race Tailem Bend, TCR Australia Touring Car Series, Porsche Sprint Challenge Australia, Australian Production Car Championship, GT4 Australia Series, Australian Formula Open, Formula 4 Australian Championship, Australian Prototype Series, Radical Cup Australia, National Sports Sedan Series, Australian National Trans Am Series
 * September: The Bend Classic
 * November: Australian Superbike Championship ASBK Grand Finale, Australian Prototype Series


 * Future


 * Supercars Championship
 * The Bend 500 (2025)


 * Former


 * Asia Road Racing Championship (2018–2019)
 * Asian Le Mans Series
 * 4 Hours of The Bend (2020)
 * Aussie Racing Cars (2018–2019, 2022)
 * Australian Formula 3 Championship (2018–2019, 2022)
 * Australian Formula Ford Championship (2018–2019, 2022–2023)
 * Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship (2018–2019, 2021–2023)
 * S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship (2019, 2023)
 * Super3 Series (2018–2019)
 * Supercars Championship
 * The Bend SuperSprint (2018–2023)
 * SuperUtes Series (2022–2023)
 * Touring Car Masters (2023)
 * Toyota 86 Racing Series (2018, 2023)

Lap records
As of June 2024, the fastest official race lap records at The Bend Motorsport Park are listed as: