[6] As of the final event in 2017, the format consisted of four races either thirteen laps or approximately thirty minutes of length.

The first year supporting the Grand Prix in Adelaide, won by Dick Johnson in the only victory in his Ford Mustang GT, was notable for Gerhard Berger competing in both the Grand Prix, for Arrows-BMW, and in the Group A touring car support race in an ex-Schnitzer Motorsport BMW 635 CSi.

Eventually, he only lasted three laps in the Group A race before being spun off by local veteran John Harvey in the second Mobil Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore at Turn 1.

1988 saw the last of the single races on the Saturday afternoon in Adelaide (the Saturday races always started at 3 PM local time, exactly 1 hour after final Formula One qualifying) with the Holden Special Vehicles team, consisting of former F1 drivers Larry Perkins and 1967 World Drivers' Champion Denny Hulme, staging a 1-2 finish in front of a lot of their old F1 contemporaries.

In 1994, John Bowe and Larry Perkins had a famous battle in wet conditions, with the two going side-by-side for much of the final lap.

In 1997, 1993 Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion Kevin Schwantz competed in the event as a guest driver in a Ford EF Falcon.

Despite qualifying nearly sixteen seconds off Mark Skaife's pole time, Newman finished all three races in his Gibson Motorsport-prepared Holden VS Commodore.

In 2007, Supercars didn't appear at the Grand Prix for the first, and so far only time, due to a scheduling and logistics conflict; the second round of the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series was scheduled approximately 3500 km from Melbourne at Barbagallo Raceway near Perth, Western Australia one week after the Grand Prix.

[12] In 2011 Jason Richards, who had stepped down from full-time driving due to a cancer diagnosis during 2010, made a one-off appearance in the Albert Park 400.

Between 2012 and 2014, New Zealand drivers won nine races in a row at the event, thanks to McLaughlin, Fabian Coulthard and Shane van Gisbergen.

[2] At various stages of the event's history, two different television networks in Australia held the Formula One and Supercars broadcast rights.

[19] Andrew Westacott, the boss of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, responded that the lack of championship status was due to Formula One Management only granting thirty minute slots for support categories, and that could not be negotiated by the AGPC.

[19] The sale of Formula One to Liberty Media in 2016 proved a catalyst for a renegotiation of the deal, with the event finally attaining championship status, with some longer race slots, for 2018.