The HRT claimed a popular Bathurst victory for Holden after three seasons of Sierra domination. In 1978 and 1979 he and Jim Richards drove an A9X Torana to victory, while in 1980 the pair won in a VC Commodore. [14] On Sunday, after a mid-race rain shower, Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards eventually prevailed for their sixth and fourth wins of the Bathurst 1000 respectively. This featured upgrades to engine power and aerodynamics, which made it one of the world's fastest four-door mass-produced production cars. Shannons SpeedSeries is Australia's home of premier motorsport categories and events, including TCR Australia, S5000, Trans Am, Touring Car Masters and GT World Challenge Australia, plus the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour and Supercheap Auto Bathurst International. One from Erebus Motorsport, for Greg Murphy and Richie Stanaway, one from Matt Chahda Motorsport, for Matt Chahda and Jaylyn Robotham, and one from Triple Eight Race Engineering, for Craig Lowndes and Declan Fraser. The race was traditionally run on the Labour Day long weekend in New South Wales, in early October. The start of this new era was dominated by Holden, who won every Bathurst 1000 from 1999 to 2005. The following year, 1986, the Holden VK Commodore SS Group A of privateer racer Allan Grice and Graeme Bailey took the honours. [10] Upgrades were allowed to seats, lubrication systems, camshafts, carburettors, suspensions, brakes and wheel rim sizes. The V8 SuperUtes have the honour of being the first category on track for the event with their opening practice session getting underway on Tuesday morning. The 1967 victory of the XR Falcon GT over the smaller Alfa Romeo 1600 GTVs and Mini Coopers surprised many pundits as the Falcon GT was unproven. The car gained the nickname 'Godzilla'. The GT World Challenge Australia series wraps up its maiden series under that branding at Mount Panorama with a pair of one-hour timed races on Thursday and Friday. 1972 was also the last year that drivers were permitted to drive without co-drivers. The 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 saw another victory for an independent team with Erebus Motorsport prevailing in mostly wet conditions with David Reynolds and Luke Youlden behind the wheel. All cars had to complete the first 100 miles without stopping for fuel, oil or a driver change. It was Holden's 36th and final win in their final start at the Bathurst 1000.[1]. The 11:15am start time is the same as the 2016, 2017 and 2018 races. Tony Longhurst and Steven Ellery were third in another EF Falcon. Bathurst is famous for being a 1000kms race, the race would actually be 1000.293kms long however the locations of the start and finish line are not the same. Support categories at the November 30 to December 5 event include the combined Super2/Super3 Series, Supercheap Auto TCR Australia, S5000, Porsche Carrera Cup Australia, Touring Car Masters, V8. Murphy went on to win the Bathurst 1000 with Rick Kelly in 2003 and 2004 for K-Mart Racing. endobj This page was last edited on 27 April 2023, at 23:47. Repco Bathurst 1000 start time confirmed - Supercars Tickets for the event are available on Supercars.com and Ticketek. Its popularity grew rapidly, chiefly because it became a means for car manufacturers to showcase their products as the race cars had to be identical to those available on the showroom floor. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recent incarnation of the Australian Touring Car Championship. The first car across the finish line has been retrospectively referred to as outright race winner since then. During the ensuing mayhem the leading Skyline of Jim Richards and Mark Skaife slid into two wrecked cars. The race was claimed by the organisers, the Light Car Club of Australia, to be 'the world's premier production saloon car race'. FORD LIVE UPDATES: Follow todays race action at the Repco Bathurst 1000, SPOTTER GUIDE:The livery of every car in the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000, SCHEDULE:Bathurst 1000 track schedule for every category, TV GUIDE:Where you can watch the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000. The highly regarded, and more expensive, Alfa GTV had been seen as the emerging force in touring cars. This engine enabled the Monaro GTS 327 to outperform the updated, yet smaller-engined, 302 cubic inch Falcon GTs and win in 1968. In 1961 Bob Jane and Harry Firth, sharing an Australian assembled Mercedes-Benz 220 SE, were the first drivers to complete the 167 laps. Porter had been scheduled to compete in the 1000 as a driver for the Brad Jones Racing team. The 161-lap Race 30 will commence at 11:15am local time on Sunday October 9. By lap 11 Brock had already lapped 7 of the outright Class D cars. 1996 saw Craig Lowndes and Greg Murphy, in a VR Commodore, cross the finish line ahead the EF Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. Become a subscriber to the V8 Sleuth Newsletter to get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox. Designed and engineered right here in Australia. Class B was taken out by an 1100cc version of the Mini Cooper. It was the first time the Shootout or its predecessor Hardies Heroes was not held since it was introduced in 1978 (in 1988 the Shootout was held but did not count for pole position). In addition to the 25 regular entries, three wildcard entries were entered. ^2 Race was stopped before full race distance. Alongside Rickard Rydell, Jim Richards won his sixth Bathurst 1000 in a Volvo S40 run by Tom Walkinshaw Racing, with his son Steven second in a Nissan Primera run by British team Team Dynamics. Like Jim Richards, Perkins achieved three of his victories as co-drivers with Brock in consecutive years in the Holden Dealer Team era. In the more than fifty-year history of the event, three drivers have died whilst competing in the Bathurst 1000. During its history, the race has been conducted for production saloon cars,[5] Group E Series Production Touring Cars,[6] Group C Touring Cars, Group A Touring Cars, Group 3A Touring Cars, Super Touring and currently Supercars. Everything You Need To Know About The Bathurst 1000 - Supercheap Auto The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) had planned to replace Group A at the end of 1991. He became part of the V8 Sleuth team in 2018. Two-race: Used for the Newcastle 500, Townsville 500, Sydney SuperNight, Gold Coast 500 and Adelaide 500. Result . In addition to the 24 regular full-time entries, one Wildcard entry will join the grid in the shape of the Triple Eight-run Holden for Broc Feeney and Russell Ingall. From 2013, the event became part of the newly formed Pirtek Enduro Cup within the Supercars season, along with the series' other two-driver races, the Sandown 500 and Gold Coast 600. The parochial Bathurst crowd, and touring car fans in general, had been conditioned to view the Bathurst 1000 as a perpetual struggle between Holden and Ford. <> Six-day Bathurst 1000 festival confirmed - Speedcafe There was no resolution to the dispute, and AVESCO announced that V8 Supercars would not compete in the traditional Bathurst 1000 held on the October long weekend in 1997. Start / End Series Session Duration Results; 08:40 - 09:00. . 1967 rule changes mandated a minimum number of pit-stops to negate the advantage economical smaller cars had of requiring fewer stops. 2022 Bathurst 1000 - Wikipedia At the end of lap one Fords held the first four places with Toranas fifth, six and seventh. It was also the birth of the Torana legend as this uniquely Australian performance car went on to become one of Australia's most successful touring cars, due in part to numerical supremacy on the track and the withdrawal of Ford and Chrysler from motor racing later in the seventies. Third outright and first in Class C were Brian Foley and Peter Manton in a Morris Cooper S. The Geoghegan brothers, Ian and Leo, famously drove the race wearing business suits supplied by McDowells. This was postponed to the end of 1992 due to the inability of FISA to specify a new International formula. Pic: Supplied. The final round of the COVID-impacted 2021 series had a minor schedule change in the lead up: the opening race was moved from Thursday to Wednesday, which allows for points leader Chaz Mostert to take part before switching focus to his Supercars duties. Dick Johnson and John Bowe won a hard-fought race ahead of Allan Moffat Racing's all-German combination of Klaus Niedzwiedz and Frank Biela. Whincup received a fifteen-second time penalty, which meant that despite taking the chequered flag first, he was only classified 11th. It was a significant victory for a number of reasons: The first of Brock's nine Bathurst wins which later led to him being nicknamed the "King of the Mountain" and "Peter Perfect". The surviving cars were marshalled in single file on Pit Straight. Co-driven by Ian (Pete) Geoghegan the winning Ford was the only Falcon classified as a finisher. Mercedes-Benz returned through Australian GT Championship team Erebus Motorsport with its three Mercedes-Benz E63 AMGs. Spectator areas have spread along the track over the decades but there are a number of private properties bordering the track so spectators are unable to access all trackside vantage points. The 1997 race saw Larry Perkins and Russell Ingall repeat their 1995 triumph, ahead of the father and son combination of Jim and Steven Richards. Holden and Ford were the only manufacturers to win under these regulations, despite facing increased imported competition, notably from the Mazda RX-7 that was campaigned effectively by Moffat and Kevin Bartlett's 350 V8 powered Chevrolet Camaro. This year is set to be especially interesting to watch play out as major changes in the Supercar team's main driver line-ups has made the search for a co-driver even more competitive. Gen3 Demonstration. After veering into the wall on the left side of the track, his car came to a relatively controlled stop on the opposite side of the course. "The Chase", a large three-corner chicane added in 1987 to the straight, was dedicated to Burgmann with a plaque embedded in the concrete barriers. Race day will feature the usual morning warm-up session ahead of the latest start time in Bathurst 1000 history. Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander will be hoping to go . [16] Following the finish, Triple Eight announced they were appealing the penalty, regarding the appropriateness of a time penalty for such an offence. Lowndes and Whincup then won the next two races to achieve the first three-peat since Brock and Larry Perkins won the Bathurst 1000 from 1982 to 1984 (the 1983 win was also shared with John Harvey). Allan Moffat's GTHO received the chequered flag followed by Bruce McPhee's identical car. The lead category will be the Supercars Championship finale, the Bathurst 1000. Many marques, including Morris, Jaguar, Nissan, BMW and Volvo, have competed in and won the event in Bathurst. The schedule for this years Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. 2000 Bathurst 1000 Support Race GTP 3Hr Showroom Showdown Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth were the defending race winner. This rivalry spawned Australia's most famous muscle cars, reverentially known as "Bathurst Specials". Craig Lowndes, who was a protg of Brock, and has followed his path in terms of success and popularity, has won the race seven times. Twenty-eight cars entered the event - 19 Holden Commodores and nine Ford Mustangs, making it the biggest grid since 2013. The incident also injured several marshals. 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results. This iteration evolved into the current Supercars category. 2023 Supercars Championship - Wikipedia During the 1974 Australian Touring Car Championship the Torana GTR XU-1 was gradually superseded by the wider bodied SL/R 5000. Class D was won by a Chrysler VC Valiant V8 that completed 124 laps. <>/Metadata 665 0 R/ViewerPreferences 666 0 R>> In 1983, John Harvey also shared the win with Brock and Perkins. Pic: Australian Racing Group THE 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 features the biggest schedule in 'Great Race' history with 10 support categories joining Supercars on a six-day joint bill. Supercars then hit the track on Thursday. The 2022 Supercars Bathurst 1000 race will officially kick off at 11:15am AEST, on Sunday October 9. Frank Coad and John Roxburgh in a Vauxhall Cresta, were the first to complete the 500-mile race distance. However, Ford refined the GT-HO to Phase Two specification with an even more powerful and better breathing 351 V8. Adding to that, the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the first Bathurst 500 to be run in wet weather. Between the 2013 and 2014 races, the track was resurfaced. It was to be Brock's ninth and final Bathurst 1000 win. In 1987 it was a round of the World Touring Car Championship. The 2022 Bathurst 1000 starts on October 6, 2022 and runs for four days until October 9, 2022. This years pursuit of the Peter Brock Trophy gets underway on Thursday 2 December with the opening Supercars practice sessions at Mount Panorama. In 2001 when the long weekend became available again, the National Rugby League shifted their Grand Final to that Sunday, denying the Bathurst 1000 a return to its traditional weekend. The course continues down to Sulman Park and McPhillamy Park. So far, the all-comers-style category has. The 1977 race saw Moffat and teammate Colin Bond cross the finish line side by side after opening up an indomitable lead in the early laps. Since 2001, the race is run on the weekend after the long weekend, normally the second weekend in October. Only two of the driving combinations of last years race have remained together for 2021, comprising the two lead Triple Eight entries for reigning victors Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander, and Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes, the former adopting the teams traditional #888 while the latter retains Whincups usual #88. [26], Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 race was held a week later than usual and with a limited number of fans, capped at 4,000 daily. Car number 34, a lone Morris Marina finished 6th in Class C having completed 125 laps. The 2013 season saw manufacturers other than Ford and Holden enter the Bathurst 1000 for the first time since 1998, under the New Generation V8 Supercar (originally known as Car of the Future) regulations that were introduced that year. Richards' son Steven is also a five-time winner (1998, 1999, 2013, 2015 and 2018). In more than 180 countries, these customers rely on Ranger to be their reliable partner at work, with family and at play. Bathurst 1000: Support category wrap. Brock had pushed the car to its limits in a spectacular display of car control. Its 'HO' specification included upgraded suspension components such as front and rear stabiliser bars. Matthew MacKelden stretchered off Mount Panorama after brutal crash They will be on track on every single day of the event, including as one of the curtain-raisers to the Bathurst 1000. . He also incurred two one-minute penalties for starting the engine while refuelling. 17:10 - 17:30. Class E was won by Doug Chivas and Max Stewart in an Alfa GTV. Become a subscriber to the V8 Sleuth Newsletter to get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox. Regulation decreed that, as the leaders had completed more than 75% of race distance, the race was not to be restarted. In its early years, the Bathurst 500/1000 was generally a stand-alone event, occasionally becoming a round of a national series such as the Australian Manufacturers' Championship, but never part of the most significant touring car series in Australia, the Australian Touring Car Championship. Third place in Class D fell to the venerable Studebaker Lark of Warren Weldon and John Hall. After being challenged by Brock's furiously driven XU-1, Moffat was unable to exploit the V8's power advantage and spun early in the race. The 2022 Bathurst 1000 (known as the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 for commercial reasons) was a motor racing event for Supercars held on the week of 6 to 9 October 2022. Jamie Whincup, the driver with the most championship titles in ATCC/Supercars history, is a four-time winner of the race. Supercars Championship organisers have confirmed the latest ever Bathurst 1000 start time, with the 2021 edition of the 'Great Race' to commence at 12.15pm local time. Four leading categories will take centre stage at next month's Repco Bathurst 1000. 2 December 2021. Bathurst 1000, 2021: When Every Category Will Be on Track - V8 In more than 180 countries, these customers rely on Ranger to be their reliable partner at work, with family and at play. [3] The track uses temporarily-closed-public roads and is known for the 174-metre (571ft) elevation difference between its highest and lowest points. Jane's racing exploits assisted in the creation of his automotive businesses, originally with automotive vehicle dealerships, then later more prominently with a national chain of tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts. It was during this period that the famous Holden-Ford-Chrysler rivalry originated. Schedule set for Repco Bathurst 1000 - Supercars [12] The 2013 race itself was a close finish between Ford's factory team drivers from Ford Performance Racing, Mark Winterbottom and Steven Richards, and Triple Eight Race Engineering's Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell. Many drivers were caught off guard and ran into the tyre wall due to the debris on the track. Friday's action will be headlined by ARMOR ALL Qualifying. 2009 was also the first race since the championship moved to an E85 fuel blend, which increased fuel consumption and as such led to more pit stops during the race. It has been confirmed that the Super3 Series will contest Round 2 of its 2020 season at the famous Mount Panorama circuit, supporting the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Holden, in its first Great Race since the marques retirement at the end of last year, once again has the lions share of the grid with 17 ZB Commodores on the entry list while eight Ford Mustang GTs will line up for the race start. He became part of the V8 Sleuth team in 2018. The event will feature the biggest schedule of any Bathurst 1000 in history with support categories taking to the track from Tuesday onwards, however the Supercars will stick with their now-familiar four days of running. The 2021 edition of the Bathurst 1000 will be a unique event taking place over six days with a total of nine support categories. The event, which will be held on October 6-9, will be headlined by the 161-lap Bathurst 1000. Ford's Falcon GT and later GT-HO, Holden's Monaro and Torana, and Chrysler's Pacer and Charger models were the result of constant development of race-worthy cars that the general public could buy. The global organising body FISA, a subsidiary of the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), allowed more liberal, negotiated interpretations "back home". The Aussie Tin Tops will return for a third event this year with confirmation it will be part of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 support card. Family Feud host, and former Bathurst 1000 representative, Grant Denyer, rounded out the top three in the session. The demise of Super Touring and the ARDC event allowed V8 Supercars and IMG to take over the promotion and organisation of the Bathurst 1000 brand from that year onwards. Chahda and Robotham will combine in an all-Super2 family-run wildcard entry. The "Old Fox", Harry Firth, who had been in charge of the Ford racing effort until he was abruptly replaced by an American, Al Turner, took charge of the HDT. Bond returned to the track but lost more time with a spin. Peter Brock cemented his reputation as the driver to beat during this period, including achieving two Bathurst hat-tricks with the Marlboro-sponsored HDT. Bob Jane won the race four times in succession from 1961 to 1964. %PDF-1.7 THURSDAY . PDF 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 Camping For Aaron, he became the first third generation driver to make a Bathurst 1000 appearance, after his father Glenn Seton and his grandfather, 1965 Armstrong 500 race winner, Barry Seton. The race was awarded to their BMW Motorsport Australia teammates David and Geoff Brabham. [7] Just 32 Ford and Holden V8s faced the starter in what was, at the time, the smallest grid in the history of the race. 1988 saw Tony Longhurst and Tomas Mezera win in their Frank Gardner-prepared, RS500. Ford was represented in the outright category by three Falcon Hardtop headed by Moffat's Brut 33 XB Falcon Hardtop GT. It initially suffered from the related problems of complexity and reliability but the GT-R went on to dominate Group A racing worldwide. From 1999 onwards, the race also counted for championship points for the first time, taking a position as the final round on the calendar. V8 SuperUtes and Heritage Revival will race on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the event. Fast facts: Date - Sunday 9 October 2022. In 1963, Bob Jane and Harry Firth again triumphed, this time in a Cortina GT. For the 1990 race, they debuted the R32 four-wheel drive, four wheel steer, twin turbo Nissan Skyline GT-R. Gibson's lead drivers, Jim Richards and Mark Skaife, easily won the 1991 Bathurst 1000 with Skaife setting the sensational time of 2:12.63 in the Top 10 Runoff for pole which was actually 2/10th faster than George Fury's Group C pole time of 1984 set on the pre-Chase circuit. The issue struck thrice on the final BATHURST 1000, 2021: WHEN EVERY CATEGORY WILL BE ON TRACK, Team boss talks Supercars sudden gearshift tower demons, Waters: Supercars still does not have parity, Baird refutes new rules of engagement claim, Weve listed the full daily track schedule already here at V8 Sleuth, Every car and driver in the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000, Ford partners with V8 Sleuth for the Bathurst 1000, Confusion reigns in first two-driver TA2 race, Triple Eight rues unacceptable qualifying flops, Winterbottom hurting after miserable milestone weekend, Feeney cruises to another Sunday Supercars win. V8 Sleuth Staff. 1 6 4 Days 1 6 Hrs 2 2 Mins 1 3 Secs Format Endurance Tickets & Prices General Admission Book Now Reserved Grandstand Book Now Hospitality Book Now View all tickets At a Glance TICKETS event schedule - TBA Event Guide - TBA support categories - TBA Entertainment - TBA While the mechanics were trying to fix the problem Brock pitted with a broken piston caused by a failed oil pump. In 1999 and 2000, it was the final round of the championship and decided the championship winner on each occasion. This meant that the back markers had to start the race from around the corner on Conrod Straight. Holden's 308 cubic inch V8-powered Toranas scored Bathurst victories in 1975, 1976, 1978 and 1979 in L34 and A9X configuration. Rauno Aaltonen and Bob Holden drove their Mini Cooper S to a hard-fought win against stiff competition which mainly consisted of other Coopers. Your online home for motorsport history and heritage, celebrating the cars and stars of the sport. Shane Jones Roar Guru . Thursday December 2. Bathurst has previously hosted a similar category in the form of Combined Sedans, which is a regular support of the Bathurst 12 . [28] For the first time since 2000, the event was the final round of the championship, however Scott McLaughlin had already secured an unassailable lead at the penultimate event.[29]. Will Dale is V8 Sleuth's Head of Content - Digital. -. 1974 winner John Goss, and West German driver Armin Hahne claimed Jaguar's only Bathurst 1000 win. It was the final time that Holden would participate in the Bathurst 1000, who made their debut in the 1961 Armstrong 500 event at Phillip Island, after General Motors announced the retirement of the brand in 2020.[2]. Under these regulations red flag race results were based on positions held at the end of the last completed lap as there were no official record of the lap not completed. He began his media career as a breakfast radio newsreader before joining SPEED TV Australia and FOX SPORTS Australia in 2012 as its Digital Editorial Lead - Motorsport, covering all forms of motorsport both in Australia and internationally. The first years on the Mount Panorama circuit were dominated by swift and agile small cars, such as the Ford Cortina and Mini Cooper. 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It was the only Vauxhall in a field of 45 cars that included N.S.U.s, Simcas, Peugeots, Morris, Austins, Fords and Standard Vanguards. With Grove Racing a continuation of Kelly Racing, Matt Chahda Motorsport a Super2 Series team and PremiAir Racing an all new team, which took over Team Sydney.

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