Sunday Funday - V8 Race Clipsal 500

Adelaide’s fun time of the year is still on. Yesterday was the final day of traditional car race Clipsal 500. This four-day event started 20 years ago and it was and still is a full success. I am not a huge fan of car racing but when my husband asked me do I want to go and spend the day watching the race I thought ”well, why not”... So whole family jumped in the car and we were there before you know it .

I’ll be honest, this was the first time I visited an event like this and it didn't disappoint me.
I must admit there is something magical about this event. The smell of petrol, a loud noise of racing cars, crowd, everything combined makes your heart pump faster.

Currently held over four days in early March, the "500" itself currently consists of two 250 km races. In addition to this, Supercars contest one hundred minutes of practice over three sessions, two twenty minute qualifying sessions and two top-ten shootouts to determine the grid for the two races.
Between 2014 and 2016 the event consisted of two 125 km races on Saturday and one 250 km race on Sunday. In 2017 the organizers switched back to the original format due to the low popularity of the 125 km races from both fans and drivers.
Although the results of all races count towards the Supercars Championship, the winner of the final race is normally declared the winner of the "Clipsal 500 Adelaide", regardless of the results of the first race. The rest of the four days are filled with practice, qualifying, and support races for a number of other racing categories, which over the history of the event has included the Super2 Series, Super5000, SuperUtes, Touring Car Masters, Australian GT and Australian Carrera Cup amongst others. The event also regularly features evening concerts, with artists including Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Keith Urban and Robbie Williams having performed. - Wikipedia

As always I carried my camera and shot many photos in order to show you at least a little bit yesterdays atmosphere on the racing course and around it.

At the end of the day, people could enjoy in, not one concept but three. We missed the first one - we left the event for a couple of hours - boys were hungry, but came back when the second concert started. After Sheppard's night finished with a cherry on top...with Robbie Williams concert...well that was fun!

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All photos are taken by me. Gear used Sony a6000, lens 50mm 1.8; and Google Pixel 2