HISTORY OF MAJOR MOTORSPORT EVENTS ON THE GOLD COAST

1991

IndyCar arrives on the Gold Coast with the debut Indy300 event.

1994

Supercars (then Australian Touring Car Championship) joins the action at Surfers Paradise as a support category to Indy.

1998

A move to shift the event from March/April to October is met with huge crowd numbers in a big boost for the event.

2003

The Indy300 smashes through the magical 300,000 crowd mark, despite a hailstorm.

2008

Uncertainty surrounds Indy’s future at Surfers, while thenpremier Anna Bligh begins the

push to curb the event’s all-too- familiar balcony antics.

2009

A1GP was set to replace Indy as the headline act but it never eventuated, with Supercars instead stepping up to become the face of the event.

2010

A massive year of change. The track was shortened from 4.47km to 2.96km and the 600km format over two races was blooded. The event’s international flavour was recaptured, with each Supercars entry to field a foreign co-driver.

2013 The international co-driver policy is scrapped. 2015

Stadium Super Trucks debut as a support category.

2017

Stadium Super Trucks miss the event as a deal with Supercars is unable to be struck.

2018

Proposal floated to change 2019 format to feature a single feature 500km Supercars race.