Macau · Racing and Sport
Every November, Macau closes its streets and races on them, as it has since 1954. Macau Races is the brand built for that weekend and for the sport around it: three domain names and this website, offered as one package.
The package is available for acquisition.
The Grand Prix
The Macau Grand Prix began in 1954 as an idea shared over coffee: a motorised treasure hunt through the streets of the city. A visiting official took one look at the route and told the three friends behind it that they did not have a treasure hunt. They had a Grand Prix.
Won by Eduardo Carvalho, in a Triumph TR2
The first Grand Prix ran on 30 and 31 October 1954, a four-hour race with a Le Mans style start, drivers sprinting across the track to their cars. Eduardo Carvalho won it in a Triumph TR2. The amateurs of that first weekend started something that has run every year since, through every change the city around it has seen.
6.2 kilometres of public road
The circuit has barely changed since. A revision to the Melco Hairpin in 1958 settled the lap at 6.120 kilometres, and the same streets still carry the race: flat out along the harbour front, hard on the brakes for the Lisboa Bend, then climbing through the old town past the reservoir, with the narrowest point of the lap barely wider than the cars.
19 to 22 November 2026
The next edition is the 73rd, four days of practice, qualifying and racing on closed public roads. For one long weekend the city belongs to the circuit, and the names in this package are the words the world types when it looks for the Macau races.
The Races
The headline race, carrying the FIA Formula Regional World Cup. Young single-seater drivers on their way up race here because Macau is where the greats proved themselves first. Formula 3 cars held this role until 2023; Formula Regional took over in 2024, and the race closes the weekend on Sunday afternoon.
The FIA GT World Cup. GT3 cars from the great manufacturers, Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes-AMG, BMW, Audi and more, on streets barely wider than the cars themselves. It is the race that fills the Lisboa grandstand, and the loudest hour of the weekend.
Touring cars have raced at Macau since 1972, and the Guia Race now hosts the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour, with a championship on the line across two races. Door to door through the old town, it is the closest racing of the weekend.
The FIA F4 World Cup, the first rung of the single-seater ladder, raced on the hardest classroom in the sport. The drivers are teenagers; the circuit does not care.
Motorcycles have raced the Guia since 1967, and the Motorcycle Grand Prix runs on Saturday morning, its 58th edition in 2026. Superbikes between the barriers, on a circuit shared with no other motorcycle race in the world.
The Greater Bay Area GT Cup for GT4 cars and the Macau Roadsport Challenge complete the programme, regional racing on a world stage, in front of the Grand Prix crowd.
Horse Racing Heritage
For thirty-five years the Macau Jockey Club raced thoroughbreds at the Taipa Racecourse. The club began as the Macau Trotting Club in 1980, staging harness racing, and turned to thoroughbred racing in 1989. Its meetings, the Macau Gold Cup among them, were a standing part of the city's sporting life.
Two tracks inside one oval on Taipa: a 1,600 metre turf course around a 1,400 metre sand track, the older surface a survival from the trotting days. Few racecourses anywhere sat closer to the city they served, with the towers of Taipa behind the home straight.
Racing ended in 2024. The government and the club agreed in January of that year to terminate the concession, the final meeting ran on Saturday 30 March 2024, and the club ceased operating on 1 April, the land returning to the government. It closed a history of horse racing in Macau that ran, in one form or another, for about two centuries. The heritage is part of what these names carry: in Macau, the word races means the horses as readily as the cars.
Presented here as heritage, honestly: the horses are history, and the history is part of the package.
Macau Sport
The SJM Macao Open brings the Asian Tour to the Macau Golf and Country Club in Coloane each October, major champions in the field, the course laid out along the South China Sea.
The NBA China Games fill the Venetian Arena, two preseason games that put Macau on the basketball map each autumn.
The Macau Marathon closes the year in December, and the Macao International 10K follows each March, road running on the same streets the Grand Prix races.
The Macau Open brings BWF World Tour badminton to the East Asian Games Dome each June, and world class table tennis returns to Macau season after season.
The Coloane Karting Circuit hosts international karting on the island's southern shore, and the Macao Match Cup opens the sailing year each January. A small city with a full sporting calendar, which is exactly the ground macausport.com and macausports.com were secured to cover.
Acquisition
Macau Races is offered for acquisition as a complete digital brand package: a memorable commercial identity, three directly relevant domain names, and this website.
For a racing series, a media business, a ticketing or hospitality operator, or a sports group building in Macau, it offers the exact-match names for the city's racing and its wider sport, under one clear identity.
macauraces.com · macausport.com · macausports.com
The names are the category: whoever owns Macau Races owns the words the world types when it looks for racing in Macau, and the sport names widen the same ground to the whole calendar.
The design is complete. The identity is established. The domains are secured. What Macau Races needs now is the right operator to bring it to life.
We welcome serious enquiries from racing and sports media, event and hospitality operators and strategic buyers.
All discussions are handled confidentially. Macau Races is offered as a digital brand and website acquisition, not as a race organiser, a ticketing business or an operating company of any kind.