Mount Panorama
The start line for the race is located sufficiently far down the start-finish straight (toward the first corner) such that cars at the rear of the starting grid are not too far around the final corner for the standing start. The finish line is located further up the straight than the start line so that it is before all of the pit garages, ensuring that all cars that pit are recorded as having completed that lap.
The first turn, Hell Corner, is a 90 degree left-hander. Mountain Straight, a 255 km/h (158 mph) gentle climb, leads into Griffin's Bend, an off-camber right-hander which then leads into The Cutting (a sharp left-handed and steeply inclined corner). Reid Park follows, a complex corner where a number of drivers have spun after not short shifting at the apex. The course continues down to Sulman Park and McPhillamy. Drivers are unable to see the descending road and enter Skyline and the first of The Esses at 220 km/h (140 mph) before The Dipper, one of the best corners in Australian motorsport. Cars then negotiate Forrest's Elbow and open out through The Kink before powering down Conrod Straight, which at 300 km/h (190 mph) is the fastest section of the track. The Chase is a long sweeping chicane where cars are on the rev limiter turning at 300 km/h before an intense braking effort to exit at 130 km/h (81 mph). Murray's is the 23rd and final turn, and also the slowest part of the track, before cars return to the start-finish straight.
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