Symmons Plains Raceway

Symmons Plains International Raceway is located on Midland Highway some 30km south of Launceston.

The track is known for several interesting features including its very long back straight with a kink, its extremely tight hairpin bend at the end of the front straight and the unusual placement of the original start/finish line and grid that was on a curve.

Symmons Plains is Tasmania's premier racing facility and one of Australia's oldest circuits, having been in continuous operation since 1960. Short and fast, it has been a long-standing fixture on the local touring car scene and its annual round of the V8 Supercars is the largest sporting event in Tasmania.

The circuit was built on the Youl family's land deep in sheep grazing countryside, near to Launceston and just south of the famed Longford road course. The Youls were a well-established Tasmanian family who became an integral part of the local motor racing scene thanks to the exploits of brothers John and Gavin who were noted racers. In 1959, their father Boyce gave the go-ahead to create a circuit on land at the edge of the estate and the brothers, together with fellow Tasmanian racers Robin Bessant and John Berrenger, began pegging out a circuit in the farmland.