WesBank Raceway was a motorsport facility situated at Germiston in the Gauteng

Gauteng

Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

 province of South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. It was built on the site of a former horse racing track (Gosforth Park

Gosforth Park

Gosforth Park is a park north of Gosforth in the borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It houses Newcastle Racecourse, a Marriott hotel, two golf courses, a garden centre and a football centre....

)
opened in 2003.

The facility featured an oval track, dragstrip

Dragstrip

A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing. Although a quarter mile is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile tracks...

, road circuit and motorcross track, allowing for a wide range of events. It was so named due to a sponsorship deal with the South Africa WesBank

WesBank

WesBank is one of the largest credit installment institutions in South Africa and South Africa’s largest provider of loans for cars.Wesbank is a division of FirstRand Bank Limited and partners with various motor industry stakeholders to deliver its major product, which is vehicle finance....

company. The track closed in November 2007 after the property was sold to developers.