The races early years were dogged by controversy as Australia's motor sport governing body the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) initially refused to sanction the event. The inaugural IRL race will not count towards its series title and will stand as a demonstration event. Since 2002, the Gold Coast race has counted for points in the V8 Supercar championship. This has often included V8 Supercars and the Carrera Cup. The weekend events include a number of Australian racing categories in support of the international Champ Car race.
In 2007 Sébastien Bourdais became the first driver to win the race twice, adding to his 2005 victory. In the first sixteen years of the event, there were sixteen different winners. Following the merger of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series in February 2008 the future of race has been secured until 2013 as an IRL Ind圜ar Series event. Then, following the split between CART and the newly formed Indy Racing League (IRL) in 1996 and the subsequent dissolution of CART in 2003, as part of the Champ Car World Series. This has been an annual event since 1991 originally as part of the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) Ind圜ar World Series. The challenging 4.47 kilometre track has several fast sections and four chicanes. It was known as the Lexmark Indy 300 until after the 2007 race. The Gold Coast Indy 300 is an American open wheel motor race event that takes place each year on a street circuit at Surfers Paradise, an eastern beach-side suburb of Gold Coast city in south east Queensland, Australia.
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