Jamie Whincup, the driver with the most championship titles in ATCC/Supercars history, is a four-time winner of the race. 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. 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. Most Australian manufacturers and assemblers became heavily involved. 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. Brock and co-driver Chivas had contrived a good lead when a miscalculation caused the Torana to run out of fuel at the top of the Mountain. This rivalry spawned Australia's most famous muscle cars, reverentially known as "Bathurst Specials". Ostensibly this removed the need to build batches of high speed road cars and improved the durability of the actual race cars. From 1985 to 1992, the Bathurst 1000 was run to international Group A regulations. 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. 1986 saw the race's first fatality. This was Ford's first victory since 2008. Thus was forged the adage that "there is no substitute for cubic inches", which became synonymous with racing at Bathurst. 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In 2013 the 1000km was completed in the record time of six hours, eleven minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Practice 2 (Additional Drivers Only) 60 mins. Three of Jane's wins were with Harry Firth, who went on to win a fourth race in 1967 and also was a team manager for the 1969 and 1972 Holden Dealer Team victories. 15:55 - 16:55. Channel 7 had televised the race since 1963 and had a contract that was binding into the 21st century. This was also the first year that an official trophy was awarded to the first team to cover the 500 miles. To reduce the threat to public safety, homologation rules were relaxed to permit certain modifications to the race cars. Group C was replaced by the International Group A Touring car rules in 1985, with selected cars preparing for this change and competing in a separate "Group A" class in 1984. Hell Corner Situated after the pit straight Hell corner is a hard 90 left corner and the first of 23 bends along the track. Many drivers were caught off guard and ran into the tyre wall due to the debris on the track. As the rain clouds dissipated many unhappy campers loudly voiced their opinions. Adding to that, the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the first Bathurst 500 to be run in wet weather. 1967 was also the first year that starting grid positions were allocated according to practice lap times rather than by class groupings. SuperSprint: Used for all SuperSprint races (exc. [27] In what was the final event for a factory-backed Holden team before the brand's retirement, the race was won by Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander, the latter's fourth Bathurst 1000 win. [20] Erebus also joined Tekno as the only teams to win both the Bathurst 12 Hour and the Bathurst 1000. 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. Entry was limited to standard, unmodified production saloons built or assembled in Australia. Sunrise mainstay and long-time Supercars presenter Mark Beretta will lead the coverage alongside 7NEWS Sydney's Mel McLaughlin. In 1978 and 1979 he and Jim Richards drove an A9X Torana to victory, while in 1980 the pair won in a VC Commodore. This years pursuit of the Peter Brock Trophy gets underway on Thursday 2 December with the opening Supercars practice sessions at Mount Panorama. The cars were then lined up on pit straight, and controversy ensued as teams exploited the regulations and performed repairs on the cars. Moffat completed the 500 miles first followed by other GTHOs in second and third place and filling six of the top seven places. Navigation. Garth Tander and Jason Bargwanna became Bathurst champions in 2000 with Garry Rogers Motorsport. He became part of the V8 Sleuth team in 2018. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Also missing out are four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy and fellow Kiwi Richie Stanaway, who were scheduled to drive an Erebus Motorsport-run wildcard in Boost Mobile colours. In 1999 and 2000, it was the final round of the championship and decided the championship winner on each occasion. The Bathurst 1000 will be the only endurance race on the Supercars calendar for 2021, with fans eagerly awaiting the list of co-drivers for the year. 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. The winner of the 2 Litre Class was the John Cotter/Peter Doulman BMW M3 which had reverted to 2 litres capacity. He went on to win twice more, in 1989 and 1994. New Zealand's Jim Richards won the race seven times (197880, 199192, 1998 and 2002) and also holds the record for the most starts (35) at this event. Whincup received a fifteen-second time penalty, which meant that despite taking the chequered flag first, he was only classified 11th. The 2009 race was won by the HRT's Garth Tander and Will Davison. 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. With the race complete, it was still unclear as to who was the legitimate winner. Following this, Supercars announced that from 2006 onwards, the drivers in the Bathurst 1000 would be racing to win the Peter Brock Trophy. Last year's race, held on Sunday December 5, was the latest ever Great Race at 12:15pm . Its regular support categories, the second tier Super2 Series, one-make Porsche Carrera Cup, the popular Toyota Gazoo Racing 86 Series and V8 Superutes will all feature. 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. In addition to the 25 regular entries, three wildcard entries were entered. Chrysler also followed by not going ahead with a competition version of its V8-powered Charger. Your online home for motorsport history and heritage, celebrating the cars and stars of the sport. Track Distance - 6.213km. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! 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). 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. The resulting culture clash caused considerable angst between officials and team management. MacKelden's race was brought to an end on turn seven of the fourth lap when he lost control of his Ford Mustang before colliding into the barrier on the right side of the track. The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport introduced new Group E Series Production Touring Car regulations in 1965 but the Armstrong 500 continued with its own regulations.[8]. Class wins were achieved by Mazda 1300, Datsun 1600, Mazda RX-2, Torana XU1 and Falcon GTHO.[7]. "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. The schedule for this year's Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. It was first held on 20 November 1960 on the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island, Victoria, over a 500-mile (800km) distance. Supercars second and third-tier series will once again run combined for their final rounds of the 2021 season, with practice and qualifying spread over Wednesday and Thursday before the races on Friday and Saturday. Allan Moffat was unable to withstand the immense pressure placed on him by Brock in his XU-1. The Torana proved more than a match in the atrocious conditions. 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. Will Dale is V8 Sleuth's Head of Content - Digital. Holden upgraded the GTS 327 Monaro to the GTS 350, which included better race-style handling and a more powerful Chevrolet V8 engine of 350 cubic inches. Endurance: Used for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000. WHAT time does the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 start? While not designated as a GT-HO, race prepared Hardtop GTs incorporated most of the still born Phase Four's componentry including the four-bolt 351 V8 engine. The Dunlop Series will make its 23rd appearance at Mount Panorama. 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. 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. 20 mins. 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. Classes B and C were won by variants of the Mini and Class A was won by a Datsun 1000 piloted by John Roxburgh and Doug Whiteford. Race winners are presented with the Peter Brock Trophy. Any mechanical problems in that time had to be attended to by the driver with no assistance, using only the tools that came with the car. Despite determined driving from Jim Richards and Wayne Negus, The Goss/Bartlett car was able to gain a slight lead as the Torana challenge faded amidst oil smoke and torrential rain. .mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}^1 Outright race winner was not officially recognised until 1965. This featured upgrades to engine power and aerodynamics, which made it one of the world's fastest four-door mass-produced production cars. Grice had honed his skills in Europe, competing alongside compatriot Commodore drivers Peter Brock and his newly recruited HDT teammate, Allan Moffat. 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. Matthew MacKelden has been stretchered off the track at Mount Panorama after a brutal crash during Race 3 in the Bathurst 1000 support categories. Campsite entry is available via Gate 15A with the best event entry being via Gate 19 and Gate . Just one rookie, Tickford Racings Zak Best, will start this years Great Race marking the smallest intake of debutants since the inaugural running of the event at Mount Panorama in 1963. The new GTS 350 Monaro, in the hands of Colin Bond and Tony Roberts, was able to hold out Ford to claim the second victory for Holden. Bruce McPhee and Barry Mulholland were second in an identical car. Italics indicate former Bathurst 1000-winning driver. BROKEN gearshift towers have become the latest item for Supercars teams to manage with their Gen3 race cars. stream Sorry, you have Javascript Disabled! 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. 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. Prior to that official results reflected four or five class races occurring simultaneously rather than a single race. % The 1993 Tooheys 1000 was won by Larry Perkins and Gregg Hansford after a race long duel with the Mark Skaife/Jim Richards Commodore VP. UPDATE 29/11: A slight tweak to Thursdays schedule has seen Australian GT Race 1 and Trans Am Race 2 swap spots. Local Sierra teams dominated and won the next two Bathurst 1000s. In 2006, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won the first race for Ford in eight years, driving for Triple Eight Race Engineering. The HRT claimed a popular Bathurst victory for Holden after three seasons of Sierra domination. If you continue to use this site, you agree to the terms and conditions identified in our privacy policy, Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia, Winterbottom eyeing end to podium drought, Supercars announces partnership with NewBook, Home advantages and title charges: The final Pukekohe Prebrief, Triple Eight docuseries to provide exclusive insight into SVG injury, Repco Bathurst 1000 schedule released , Repco Bathurst 1000 start time confirmed , 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 . It was during this period that the famous Holden-Ford-Chrysler rivalry originated. "Van Gisbergen/Tander take Holden's final Bathurst 1000 win", "Holden vs Ford rivalry delivered a 'death' blow at Supercars Adelaide 500 after Holden exit", "Erebus Motorsport confirms all Kiwi Bathurst Wildcard", Triple Eight confirms Lowndes/Fraser wildcard, "Bathurst 1000 wildcard hopeful denied Superlicence", "From rivals to allies for Bathurst debutants", "Bathurst 1000 Shootout cancelled amid wet weather", "Grid penalty for van Gisbergen after Bathurst Qualifying clash", 2022 Repco Spercars Championship Race 30, Supplementary Regulations for Supercars, www.supercars.com, as archived at web.archive.org, Repco Bathurst 1000 Results, www.supercars.com, as archived at web.archive.org, 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 Classification, racing.natsoft.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2022_Bathurst_1000&oldid=1152063912. Class D was won by a Chrysler VC Valiant V8 that completed 124 laps. . The XU-1 was a special "Bathurst" version of the six-cylinder LC Torana. However, Ford refined the GT-HO to Phase Two specification with an even more powerful and better breathing 351 V8. In 1966 and 1967 an Irish tobacco company sponsored the race, which became known as the "Gallaher 500". [23] However, the race results remained provisional for a week until a hearing was held into DJR Team Penske's instructions to team-mate Fabian Coulthard during an earlier safety car. <>/Metadata 665 0 R/ViewerPreferences 666 0 R>> [33] Craig Lowndes, a long time mentee of Brock, has won the trophy a record six times since its inception. After the first 10 cars passed through The Esses, contact between two Falcons caused one to roll over. 10:00-11:00 Supercars - Practice 1; 16:25-17:25 Supercars - Practice 2 (co-drivers only) Engineered as an affordable personal luxury car with the ability to win Bathurst it had a 327 cubic inch Chevrolet V8 (as the "GTS 327" name implies). 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". Bathurst 1000: Support category wrap. Tickets for the event are available on Supercars.com and Ticketek. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 20 0 R 21 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> 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. Bond returned to the track but lost more time with a spin. It was Holden's 36th and final win in their final start at the Bathurst 1000.[1]. 1965 brought victory for the first overt "Bathurst Special", the Cortina GT 500. 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. [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. 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. It was Lowndes' thirteenth podium at the event, which is an all-time record. Canadian-born Allan Moffat is Ford's most successful Bathurst driver, winning the race four times (1970, 1971, 1973 and 1977). Larry Perkins is the equal fourth most successful driver at Bathurst, with six victories (198284, 1993, 1995 and 1997). Murray's is the 23rd and final turn, and also the slowest part of the circuit, before cars return to the start-finish straight. Just one previous Bathurst 1000-winning chassis will be on the grid for the 2021 race, while seven cars will make their Great Race debut. 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results Tuesday November 30 to Sunday December 05. ^2 Race was stopped before full race distance. The 2022 Bathurst 1000 starts on October 6, 2022 and runs for four days until October 9, 2022. This iteration evolved into the current Supercars category. The popularity of the race grew rapidly during the 1960s. The schedule for this years Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. 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. Class A was won by the Nissan Factory backed Datsun 1300 of Moto Kitamo and Kunimitsu Takahashi. THURSDAY . Harry Firth was third with John Reaburn. 2 December 2021. 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 event, which will be held on October 6-9, will be headlined by the 161-lap Bathurst 1000. By the time the XU-1 was refueled, Moffat was well in front. SCHEDULE. This meant that the back markers had to start the race from around the corner on Conrod Straight. 12/09/2006. The race was a disaster for Ford as many Falcon tyres failed due to the speed and weight of the Falcons. 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. 3 0 obj Repco Supercars Championship. Highlights of the Supercheap Auto Showroom Showdown as part of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Support Category in 2000 The lead category will be the Supercars Championship finale, the Bathurst 1000. 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. The turbo powered Nissan Bluebird piloted by George Fury also threatened the V8 'Big Bangers' and signalled a sign of things to come during the Group A era. Eggenberger's cars finished first and second on the road but were disqualified months later due to bodywork irregularities. The 161-lap Race 30 will commence at 11:15am local time on Sunday October 9. In the 1989 race Peter Brock claimed pole in his record 6th pole at Bathurst and his first for Ford or anything but a Holden. 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. Although the Group A racing Commodores and Sierras were far removed from road going examples, the Nissans were seen as being unfairly advantaged and received considerable negative comment in the build-up to the race. Class E was won by Doug Chivas and Max Stewart in an Alfa GTV. 1966 was the last four cylinder victory for more than two decades. Peter Brock died weeks before the 2006 race in an accident during the Targa West rally in Western Australia. Thursday December 2. The first car across the finish line has been retrospectively referred to as outright race winner since then. Tom Walkinshaw also briefly campaigned VL Commodores in Europe. Mountain Straight, a gentle climb where the cars reach speeds of 255km/h (158mph), leads into Griffin's Bend, an off-camber right-hander which then leads into The Cutting, a sharp left-hander with a steep incline. They were over a lap clear of the Studebaker Lark driven by David McKay and Brian Foley, which in turn was a lap in front of the Vauxhall Velox of Frank Coad and John Roxburgh. Melbourne) and the Darwin Triple Crown. The 1997 Primus 1000 Classic, as it was known, was held two weeks after the traditional race, while the 1998 FAI 1000 was held in mid-November. A number of drivers in the Carrera Cup field will also race in the Repco Bathurst 1000. Melbourne: Used for the Melbourne SuperSprint. The XU-1 was more agile, cheaper and more economical. 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 car gained the nickname 'Godzilla'. to walk across the bridge and down to the Paddock area to see both the Support categories and the Supercars. A complex corner called Reid Park comes next, where a number of drivers have spun after not short shifting at the apex. Four leading categories will take centre stage at next month's Repco Bathurst 1000. 2 0 obj 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. [11] This was Moffat's last Bathurst 1000 victory. [7] This change favoured the larger, thirstier Fords and Holdens. His second hat trick consisted of victories in 1982, 1983 and 1984, this time partnering with Larry Perkins in a VH Commodore for the first two years and in a VK Commodore in the third. 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.
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