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The Bend Motorsport Park, currently known as Shell V-Power Motorsport Park for naming rights reasons, is a 7.770 km (4.828 mi) bitumen motor racing circuit at Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia, about 100 km (62 mi) south-east of the state capital, Adelaide. The complex has a bitumen circuit, drag racing strip, and drift racing circuit. [1]
The Bend SuperSprint (known for sponsorship reasons as the OTR SuperSprint – The Bend) was an annual motor racing event for Supercars, held at The Bend Motorsport Park in Tailem Bend, South Australia from 2018 until 2023. [1]
Major industries in the area include pig farming, dairying, and growing grains, hay and olives.The head office of Coorong District Council is situated in the town. The Tailem Bend Solar Power Farm and The Bend Motorsport Park, respectively 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) and 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) south-east of the town, are significant recent additions to the region's economy.
The Bend Motorsport Park: Tailem Bend, South Australia: 31 May–2 June 5 Queensland Raceway: Ipswich, Queensland: 2–4 August 6 Sydney Motorsport Park: Eastern Creek, New South Wales: 18–20 October 7 Mount Panorama Circuit: Bathurst, New South Wales: 8–10 November [2] [3]
The 2018 The Bend SuperSprint (formally known as the 2018 OTR SuperSprint at The Bend Motorsport Park) [1] was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 24–26 August 2018. The event was held at The Bend Motorsport Park near Tailem Bend in South Australia and was the first Supercars event to be held at the circuit.
The Bend 500 is a planned motor racing event for Supercars, to be held at The Bend Motorsport Park in Tailem Bend, South Australia commencing in 2025. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The event had previously been scheduled for 2020 , but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [ 3 ]
Peregrine owns The Bend Motorsport Park at Tailem Bend, and the Mallala Motor Sport Park. The company was founded by Fred (Fathi) Shahin in 1984 with the purchase of a BP service station in Woodville. Peregrine bought the Mobil fuel outlets in South Australia in 2010 and 25 company-owned BP outlets in 2014.
The council seat is at Tailem Bend; the council also operates service centres in Meningie and Tintinara. [7] The council opened a new civic centre at Tailem Bend on 27 October 2014. This centre is located on Railway Tce and is joined to the Tailem Bend Town Hall.