ADELAIDE MOTORSPORT FESTIVAL STOPS TRAFFIC FOR STREET RACE FILM

Adelaide Motorsport Festival takes over streets – Photo: Supplied

Adelaide Motorsport Festival organisers have released a short teaser of what’s to come when they release the second instalment of Race to the City in the lead up to this year’s event.

Residents of Adelaide’s western suburbs awoke to some unusual traffic last Sunday morning as a LaFerrari and a Formula One car sped along the South Road Superway and through suburban streets.

Ivan Capelli’s 1989 Leyton House March and an ultra-rare Ferrari hypercar took to the road, with the pair of high-performance machines were escorted by police at a brisk pace through an industrial area of Wingfield where the streets are named after Adelaide-era F1 stars.

The southbound lanes of the Superway were then closed for two hours as the two cars stretched their legs across the elevated roadway, pursued by a film crew, filming scenes for 2018 edition of the viral video, Race to the City.

“Race to the City was a great success for us last year, so we’re doing a more elaborate version for 2018,” said Adelaide Motorsport Event Director, Tim Possingham.

“We started filming in Italy in May, and have done several shoots around South Australia, including in the Murray Mallee and the Adelaide Hills, as well as the scenes we shot in the north-western suburbs of Adelaide last weekend.”

“As with last year, we are grateful for the amazing support and assistance we have received from SA Police, DPTI and other regulatory bodies. Thanks to this help we have been able to capture some incredible footage that really captures some of the wonderful tourism regions that are so close to the capital city here in SA.”

The film is set to include Italian F1 stars Ivan Capelli and Pierluigi Martini, Le Mans winner and F1 driver David Brabham, British Rally Champion and WRC driver Alister McRae, Supercars stars Craig Lowndes and Tim Slade, as well as Red Bull Air Race pilot Matt Hall.

LaFerrari scene being filmed

The Festival has not released a full list of cars in the film but confirmed the LaFerrari and the classic F1 Leyton House March will be joined on-screen by the new, Adelaide-built Brabham BT62. All of which will be featured during the Adelaide Motorsport Festival, which takes place on December 1 and 2.

“The film carries on last year’s theme of cars and drivers racing to get to the festival,” Possingham continued.

“It encapsulates the sheer diversity of drivers and cars from around the world that gather for the Festival, which is the only event of its type in the southern hemisphere – a lot of people describe it the southern hemisphere’s version of the Goodwood Festival of Speed.”

“At AMF you can get up close to the cars and drivers, and see a huge variety of vehicles, from Adelaide-era F1s, Le Mans racers, Can-Am beasts, modern exotics, time attack weapons and all sorts of historic racers.”

Some of the film’s four-wheeled stars will appear on public roads again this year when they are joined by other rare and exotic vehicles for the Peak Hour of Power, a brisk parade through the city to Gouger St on Friday, November 30 to join a free street party to kick off the Festival.

Race to the City 2018 is due for release on October 18. While the Adelaide Motor Festival will take place on the first weekend in December.

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