Drivers are unable to see the descending road and enter Skyline and the first of The Esses at 220km/h (140mph) before The Dipper, one of the most famous corners in Australian motorsport. The Bathurst 1000 is colloquially known as The Great Race among motorsport fans and media. Richards became the first driver to win in both a Ford and a Holden in consecutive years. . A fierce new opponent was waiting in the wings. Around the 90 lap mark rain started to fall at the top of the mountain. This engine enabled the Monaro GTS 327 to outperform the updated, yet smaller-engined, 302 cubic inch Falcon GTs and win in 1968. It was Holden's 36th and final win in their final start at the Bathurst 1000.[1]. 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. The 2009 race was won by the HRT's Garth Tander and Will Davison. The V8 Toranas ran away at the start of the 1974 race and Holden victory seemed assured. The new joint venture company (AVESCO) signed a TV deal for 1997 with Network Ten, which included expanded coverage of the championship. Thursday, October 6 - Sunday, October 9. To reduce the chances of another first lap calamity the starting grid was changed from 2-3-2 to a staggered 2-2-2 formation. Its 'HO' specification included upgraded suspension components such as front and rear stabiliser bars. Tony Longhurst and Steven Ellery were third in another EF Falcon. He also won in 1992 in the same car, and in 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2010 in a Holden Commodore. 1970 saw a change of strategy as Holden chose to race the smaller Torana GTR XU-1 rather than the Monaro. 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. On lap 12 Moffat pitted and lost several laps as a new coil was fitted. Thanks to public donations of over A$70,000 and a matching donation from Ford Johnson was able to rebuild his car and win the Bathurst race the following year. [17][18] The appeal, held by the Supercars National Court of Appeal in the County Court of Victoria, was dismissed in a hearing nine days after the race.[19]. Designed and engineered right here in Australia. Nissan and team manager Fred Gibson, had campaigned Skylines in Australian competition for a few years. The schedule for this years Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. The 2021 edition of Bathurst 1000 is set to be one of the biggest ever after the 2020 race's crowd capacity was limited due to Covid-19. 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. 4 0 obj ^9 - Race record for time elapsed & average speed. Gen3 Demonstration. Brock broke his '05' HDT Commodore early in the event so he and co-driver David Parsons took over the team's second car, the #10 Commodore of Peter McLeod, to cross the line third behind the two Sierras. All support category races were tied up with the Formula One Rolex Australian Grand Prix broadcast rights as a package. The tables below reflect that change. The 2022 Supercars Bathurst 1000 race will officially kick off at 11:15am AEST, on Sunday October 9. This years Great Race comes on the 50th anniversary of Peter Brocks maiden win. In 2013, V8 Supercars' rules changed and other marques began to enter the race, including the return of past winners Nissan. The production car battle between the "Big Three" was fought at Bathurst. Car #97 received a 3-place grid penalty for a causing a collision in Qualifying. At Bathurst it was fitted with race tyres. The most successful driver at Bathurst is Peter Brock, whose nine victories (1972, 1975, 197880, 198284 and 1987) earned him the nickname King of the Mountain. With tyres that were able to endure the power and torque, the GT-HO reinforced the adage that "there is no substitute for cubic inches". In 1995, due to fears about the growing speed difference between the V8s and the 2-litre cars, the Bathurst 1000 became a one-class race for the first time. 1965 brought victory for the first overt "Bathurst Special", the Cortina GT 500. Two-race: Used for the Newcastle 500, Townsville 500, Sydney SuperNight, Gold Coast 500 and Adelaide 500. Dick Johnson was the only winner for Ford during the 1980s under Group C, with a victory in 1981 whilst at the wheel of the XD Falcon. Designed and engineered right here in Australia. In 1978 and 1979 he and Jim Richards drove an A9X Torana to victory, while in 1980 the pair won in a VC Commodore. All in all, 10 categories will feature across six days at the Mountain: beginning Tuesday, November 30 and culminating in the iconic Great Race on Sunday, December 5. Many drivers were caught off guard and ran into the tyre wall due to the debris on the track. Garth Tander and Jason Bargwanna became Bathurst champions in 2000 with Garry Rogers Motorsport. 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. Porter had been scheduled to compete in the 1000 as a driver for the Brad Jones Racing team. 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. 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results Tuesday November 30 to Sunday December 05. [7] Ford's development of the 289 cubic inch V8 Ford Falcon GT signalled the end of small cars as outright contenders. The trophy, manufactured by Hardy Brothers, is inscribed with the words "King of the Mountain", a long-time nickname of Brock's. [24][25] One month after the race, an investigation into McLaughlin's qualifying engine found a breach, resulting in a further fine, loss of his pole position and qualifying lap record and demotion to last place on the grid for the 2019 Sandown 500. See the full 2022 Bathurst 1000 schedule below, including when the races air in the US.. Navigation. The 1969 race also saw the dbut of Peter Brock. Every Supercars practice session, qualifying, the Top 10 Shootout and the main race, plus all support category action will be LIVE and AD-BREAK FREE on the FOX SPORTS BATHURST Channel (Foxtel Channel 503). The first turn, Hell Corner, is a ninety-degree left-hander. Many marques, including Morris, Jaguar, Nissan, BMW and Volvo, have competed in and won the event in Bathurst. endobj The event was first held in 1960 and has traditionally been a battleground for rival automobile manufacturers Ford and Holden. [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. Class B was taken out by an 1100cc version of the Mini Cooper. The following year, 1986, the Holden VK Commodore SS Group A of privateer racer Allan Grice and Graeme Bailey took the honours. Start / End Series Session Duration Results; 08:40 - 09:00. . In 1999, Steven Richards repeated his 1998 triumph, winning with Greg Murphy in their Gibson Motorsport Holden VT Commodore. Despite already being given a drive-through penalty during the race, after the hearing Coulthard was further relegated to the last finisher and the team was docked 300 Teams' Championship points and fined AU$250,000 with $100,000 of the fine suspended. 25 November 2021 A large variety of support categories feature on the six-day Repco Bathurst 1000 bill. Become a subscriber to the V8 Sleuth Newsletter to get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox. Porsche Carrera Cup Australia. 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000 - Supercars Countdown Event starts in. V8 SuperUtes and Heritage Revival will race on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the event. The pair repeated the win in controversial circumstances in 1992. Repco, which is sponsoring the Bathurst 1000 for a second time, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Entry was limited to standard, unmodified production saloons built or assembled in Australia. The 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 saw the first of the Ford Falcon GT-HOs. Moffat claimed another Falcon victory, his third in only four years. However, the race is best known for the presence of the traditional rivals of Australian motorsport, Ford and Holden, who have won all but six of the races at Bathurst. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recent incarnation of the Australian Touring Car Championship. 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. Of the seven, six will make their debut - Declan Fraser, Matt Payne, Cameron Hill, Aaron Seton, Matt Chahda and Jaylyn Robotham. [20] Erebus also joined Tekno as the only teams to win both the Bathurst 12 Hour and the Bathurst 1000. His pit crew could not lend assistance as this would have resulted in disqualification. His car, a Holden VP Commodore, had a mechanical failure and went straight ahead at the entry to The Chase, hitting a barrier at almost 250km/h (160mph). 2 0 obj Several cars coming around the blind corner crashed into the stationary car. V8 Sleuth is Australia's Home of Motorsport. Weve listed the full daily track schedule already here at V8 Sleuth, but with categories running across different days and at different times, we thought wed also bring you a list of practice, qualifying and race schedules broken down by category. At the end of lap one Fords held the first four places with Toranas fifth, six and seventh. Chrysler replaced its Pacers with its new two-door, the Charger. 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. This was powered by a 265cuin (4.34L) in-line HEMI six-cylinder engine with triple Weber carburettors. The Group E Series Production Touring Car regulations, which had applied to the 1972 race,[6] were replaced by the new Group C Touring Car regulations for 1973. 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. 11am -12pm: Supercars Practice 1 (all drivers) 3.55pm - 4.55pm: Supercars Practice 2 (co-drivers . The Bathurst 1000 will start at 12:15pm AEDT on Sunday. Supercars will again be supported by the Dunlop Series and Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia. The race was dominated by Tom Walkinshaw Racing's three car Jaguar XJ-S team, the big V12 powered Jaguars having a clear power and speed advantage over the still developing Australian Group A teams and cars. The Chase is a long sweeping chicane where cars are on the rev limiter turning at 300km/h before a large braking zone to exit at 130km/h (81mph). Four leading categories will take centre stage at next month's Repco Bathurst 1000. 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. 1988 saw Tony Longhurst and Tomas Mezera win in their Frank Gardner-prepared, RS500. TOCA Australia was invited to fill the void with a 2-litre Super Touring field, featuring a number of British Touring Car Championship drivers and teams, including Alain Menu, John Cleland and Rickard Rydell, joining Australian Super Touring Championship regulars. He was given the moniker "King of the Mountain" for these reasons.[2]. 1972 was also the last year that drivers were permitted to drive without co-drivers. Repco Supercars Championship. The track was almost blocked with wreckage but expert flag marshalling enabled the cars to pass through in single file until the debris was cleared. 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results. Bathurst 1000 Crashes: Support Categories - YouTube Crashes throughout the history of the Bathurst 1000. By lap 85 the two HDT Toranas were four laps clear of the field. However, by noon on race day, Moffat was far enough in front to pit without losing the lead. Ostensibly this removed the need to build batches of high speed road cars and improved the durability of the actual race cars. The next-generation Ranger is the smartest, most capable and most versatile Ranger ever developed at every step with our customers needs and experiences in mind. The Skyline's 1992 victory was particularly controversial. Five support categories will be involved in the four . BROKEN gearshift towers have become the latest item for Supercars teams to manage with their Gen3 race cars. Tuesday November 30. When the flag dropped the "no substitute for cubic inches" ethic prevailed as the Goss Falcon hardtop powered away from pole position. It was the 26th running of the Australian 1000 race, which was first held after the organisational split between the Australian Racing Drivers Club and V8 Supercars Australia that saw two "Bathurst 1000" races contested in both 1997 and 1998. In 2006, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won the first race for Ford in eight years, driving for Triple Eight Race Engineering. This would be the last major Super Touring race at Bathurst, the last organised by the ARDC and the last held on the traditional Labour Day holiday weekend. This rivalry spawned Australia's most famous muscle cars, reverentially known as "Bathurst Specials". 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. Race winners are presented with the Peter Brock Trophy. It hosted the eleventh round of the 2022 Supercars Championship.It took place at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia and featured a single 1000 kilometre race. 1972 saw controversy, following a media-driven "Supercar Scare", which had accumulated enough political momentum to force Holden to postpone introduction of a V8 Torana for two years. The race was held twice more at Phillip Island. Holden based race teams continued development of the 308 cubic inch V8 powered Commodore. Ford teams went on to adopt the more powerful, though less reliable, Ford Sierra Turbo Cosworth. Fast facts: Date - Sunday 9 October 2022. The race was claimed by the organisers, the Light Car Club of Australia, to be 'the world's premier production saloon car race'. Seven drivers made their Bathurst 1000 debut, ADAC GT Masters driver Jaxon Evans and Super2 drivers Matt Chahda, Declan Fraser, Cameron Hill, Matthew Payne, Jaylyn Robotham and Aaron Seton. The top placed 2-litre car was the works BMW of Paul Morris and Altfrid Heger which finished 10th outright, albeit six laps behind Johnson and Bowe. Alexandre Prmat was scheduled to drive for Tickford Racing but will once again miss out on returning to Mount Panorama for the first time since winning the race in 2019. Bo Seton and Midge Bosworth completed the 130 laps first. The race was once again the final round of the season in 2020, with the re-organised season having been cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the championship had already been decided on points. Eggenberger's cars finished first and second on the road but were disqualified months later due to bodywork irregularities. The 2021 series was decided in Bathurst last December, with Broc Feeney clinching the title. The winner of the 2 Litre Class was the John Cotter/Peter Doulman BMW M3 which had reverted to 2 litres capacity. BATHURST 1000. 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. In more than 180 countries, these customers rely on Ranger to be their reliable partner at work, with family and at play. 1967 rule changes mandated a minimum number of pit-stops to negate the advantage economical smaller cars had of requiring fewer stops. Consequent to Burgmann's death the circuit was altered prior to the 1987 race by the incorporation of "The Chase" two-thirds of the way down Conrod Straight. Ford was represented in the outright category by three Falcon Hardtop headed by Moffat's Brut 33 XB Falcon Hardtop GT. The 161-lap affair will mark. This was an unpopular decision with some race fans, many of whom could not understand how a wrecked Nissan could beat a perfectly healthy Sierra that had passed it on the track. Melbourne) and the Darwin Triple Crown. Initially the Geoghegan brothers' Falcon was awarded victory but some hours later Harry Firth and Fred Gibson were declared winners. With four-wheel drive, four-wheel steer, and a powerful turbo 2.6-litre six-cylinder engine producing around 640bhp (477kW; 649PS), the RWD Sierras and Commodores simply could not equal or compensate for the Skyline's superior handling and power output. Thursday December 2. Cars then negotiate Forrest's Elbow before powering down Conrod Straight, the fastest section of the track where cars can reach 300km/h (190mph). The Bathurst 1000 (formally known as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a 1,000-kilometre (621.4 mi) touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It was also the first win for Gibson Motorsport since their wins with Nissan in 1991 and 1992. 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). Result . Class E was won by Doug Chivas and Max Stewart in an Alfa GTV. The full entry list for the 2021 Repco 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. ENTRY LIST: 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Italics indicate former Bathurst 1000-winning driver The next-generation Ranger is the smartest, most capable and most versatile Ranger ever - developed at every step with our customers' needs and experiences in mind. The Trans Am Series wraps up its COVID-shortened season with Nathan Herne on the verge of sealing the 2021 title. Class wins were achieved by a Datsun 1200, an Alfa GTV, a Mazda RX2 and, of course, the Falcon GT. This was Ford's first victory since 2008. This iteration evolved into the current Supercars category. [7] The Bathurst 500 was organised and promoted by a consortium of the Seven Network, the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC) and Bathurst Regional Council, an arrangement which would continue until 1998. The only other car on the same lap was the Forbes/Negus SL/R 5000. 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.

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