Queensland Raceway, motorsport track in Queensland, Australia
Queensland Raceway is a 3.126 km clockwise circuit at Willowbank in the Ipswich Motorsport Precinct, southwest of Brisbane. Designed by Tony Slattery with input from CAMS expert Rod Troutbeck, it has six corners, a 12 m track width and a 643 m back straight, and its U-shaped layout earned the nickname "the paperclip". All grandstands and pit buildings sit outside the loop, leaving the infield empty and giving spectators a clear view of the whole track.
Construction of a permanent circuit began in 1998 at the western end of the Ipswich Motorsport Precinct, which had grown since the 1980s around the Willowbank Raceway dragstrip, a kart track and off-road facilities. The Queensland Raceway opened in 1999 and hosted the Queensland 500 until 2002. Its front straight was named Dick Johnson Straight on 16 August 2001. Resurfacing followed in late 2011, and in October 2021 Tony Quinn took over the lease and operations.
Queensland Raceway sits at Willowbank in the Ipswich Motorsport Precinct, next to the Willowbank dragstrip and within the 6 km noise exclusion zone of RAAF Base Amberley. The flat layout and spectator mounds give clear views of the whole circuit from outside the track, since the infield is unbuilt. The full circuit runs clockwise for 3.126 km over six corners, with shorter Clubman, Sprint, Sportsman and Switchback variants used on different days.
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