The poster for the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival has been revealed, featuring three star cars attending the event and giving a hint of what more is to come on March 8 and 9.
Formula 1 is front and centre again with Group A touring cars, Le Mans sportscars and racing motorbikes areas of focus.
Adelaide Motorsport Festival event director Tim Possingham states: “We can’t ignore the link that Adelaide has to Formula 1 and that will be very evident at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival, some 40 years since the first Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. The Benetton B190 shown on the poster was featured at the event last year and is the actual 1990 Australian Grand Prix-winning car. We had a lot of requests for that car to return again and it will be joined by many other F1 cars from different ages, including some absolute screamers that have never been seen here before. One in particular we hope to fly out from France in the next six weeks, pending a successful track test.
“At the same time we have experienced a large volume of applications for Group A and Group C cars and there are some cars that will attend the event which have not been seen for decades. What’s more impressive is that some of these are iconic cars on a global scale.
“We will have some new Le Mans cars such as the Nissan RC88, and although this doesn’t have a direct connection with Adelaide it demonstrates what we are doing in respect to bringing cars in from all over the world that are ‘world cars’ that you normally can only see at Goodwood and a handful of other events in the Northern Hemisphere.”
The Benetton B190 Ford that won the 1990 Australian Grand Prix returns to Adelaide 35 years later. The Benetton B190, featuring the distinct ‘United Colours of Benetton’ livery, was driven by three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet to victory in Adelaide in 1990 and will feature in the Formula 1 category at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.
Also featuring on the poster and at the event is a Nissan R88C Group C sportscar. In the iconic Calsonic livery, it was raced in the All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship, World Sportscar Championship and 24 Hours of Le Mans across 1988 and 1989 – powered by a three-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine, producing approximately 950 horsepower. The Nissan will join the rotary-powered Mazda 767B in the Invitational category at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.
Alongside the Benetton and Nissan is a Group A Mobil 1 Ford Sierra RS500 raced by Peter Brock. Best known for his successes with Holden, Brock raced the Sierra over the course of 1989 and 1990, scoring pole position at Bathurst in 1989, claiming two round wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1989 and 1990 and victory in the Nissan-Mobil 500 Series across Wellington and Pukekohe in New Zealand alongside Andrew Miedecke in 1990, the last time Brock drove a Ford in competition. The Ford will be amongst the entrants in the Heritage Touring Car category at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.
Motorbikes will once again feature at the event, with several grand prix motorcycles, Superbikes and more on track at the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.
The 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival will once again feature various categories, ranging from Formula 1 cars, V8 Supercars, sportscars, touring cars, motorbikes and more with the action non-stop without a break in track activity at any stage of the day. Off track there will be car displays, kids’ zones, bars and food trucks, exhibitors and traders, activations and more, in a picnic in the park setting.
Tickets are on sale now with weekend tickets and single-day tickets available, in addition to tickets to the Toyota Gazoo Racing Garden and VIP Suite hospitality offerings.
Visit AdelaideMotorsportFestival.com.au for more on the event and to purchase tickets.
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