The event was the 65th running of the Bathurst 1000, which was first held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in 1960 as a 500-mile race for Australian-made standard production sedans, and marked the 62nd time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. Richards' son Steven is also a five-time winner (1998, 1999, 2013, 2015 and 2018). Holden then started a run of four straight wins from 2009 to 2012. 25 November 2021 A large variety of support categories feature on the six-day Repco Bathurst 1000 bill. He went on to win twice more, in 1989 and 1994. 1965 brought victory for the first overt "Bathurst Special", the Cortina GT 500. 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. In 1987 it was a round of the World Touring Car Championship. Seven was not prepared to drop the race, while AVESCO required a Bathurst race for Ten to broadcast. The Bathurst 1000 will start at 12:15pm AEDT on Sunday. Around the 90 lap mark rain started to fall at the top of the mountain. Four leading categories will take centre stage at next months Repco Bathurst 1000. The new regulations created a separate class for 2-litre cars, based on the British Touring Car Championship's (BTCC) regulations of the time. Twenty-eight cars entered the event - 19 Holden Commodores and nine Ford Mustangs, making it the biggest grid since 2013. Designed and engineered right here in Australia. 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. This time, Richards jokingly said that the crowd was "a lovely bunch of people", in contrast to his comments made on the podium ten years earlier. 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. Many drivers were caught off guard and ran into the tyre wall due to the debris on the track. 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. Adding to that, the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the first Bathurst 500 to be run in wet weather. Their inaugural season will wrap up with four races spread across Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. ^4 The first position finisher was disqualified post race. Some European teams, most prominently the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport, ran questionable vehicles. In 1961 Bob Jane and Harry Firth, sharing an Australian assembled Mercedes-Benz 220 SE, were the first drivers to complete the 167 laps. 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. 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. The XU-1 was a special "Bathurst" version of the six-cylinder LC Torana. Your online home for motorsport history and heritage, celebrating the cars and stars of the sport. 10:00-11:00 Supercars - Practice 1; 16:25-17:25 Supercars - Practice 2 (co-drivers only) Tickets for the event are on sale now. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recent incarnation of the Australian Touring Car Championship. . 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. As a result of "The Chase", lap times around the circuit increased by approximately 45 seconds (based on times in comparable cars from the 1986 and 1987 races). The 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 saw the first of the Ford Falcon GT-HOs. The race was a disaster for Ford as many Falcon tyres failed due to the speed and weight of the Falcons. SuperSprint: Used for all SuperSprint races (exc. 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]. While the mechanics were trying to fix the problem Brock pitted with a broken piston caused by a failed oil pump. 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 [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. This was not an issue for the ATCC races, but for the Bathurst 1000, which was organized and promoted by a consortium that included Channel 7, it was a major issue. 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 incident also injured several marshals. 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 engine enabled the Monaro GTS 327 to outperform the updated, yet smaller-engined, 302 cubic inch Falcon GTs and win in 1968. Larry Perkins is the equal fourth most successful driver at Bathurst, with six victories (198284, 1993, 1995 and 1997). A vast array of cars from different eras are expected to line-up in the Heritage Revival category. The 2022 Bathurst 1000 starts on October 6, 2022 and runs for four days until October 9, 2022. The 2009 race was won by the HRT's Garth Tander and Will Davison. Rauno Aaltonen and Bob Holden drove their Mini Cooper S to a hard-fought win against stiff competition which mainly consisted of other Coopers. The highly regarded, and more expensive, Alfa GTV had been seen as the emerging force in touring cars. In the more than fifty-year history of the event, three drivers have died whilst competing in the Bathurst 1000. 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. This year's Repco Bathurst 1000 will be held on October 6-9. The Skyline's 1992 victory was particularly controversial. During the 1974 Australian Touring Car Championship the Torana GTR XU-1 was gradually superseded by the wider bodied SL/R 5000. Race winners are presented with the Peter Brock Trophy. Campsite entry is available via Gate 15A with the best event entry being via Gate 19 and Gate . 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. V8 SuperUtes and Heritage Revival will race on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the event. At Bathurst it was fitted with race tyres. The 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 started at 9:30 am. 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. Support categories will hit the [] Several cars coming around the blind corner crashed into the stationary car. Thursday, October 6 - Sunday, October 9. At the end of the year Ford Australia gave the Falcon GT race cars to their drivers and withdrew from racing. . 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. Both the Super Touring and V8 Supercar races claimed to be the legitimate Bathurst 1000. As the rain clouds dissipated many unhappy campers loudly voiced their opinions. When the flag dropped the "no substitute for cubic inches" ethic prevailed as the Goss Falcon hardtop powered away from pole position. Locally built cars were driven in Europe by Allan Grice, Peter Brock, John Harvey, Allan Moffat, Dick Johnson and John Bowe. The lead category will be the Supercars Championship finale, the Bathurst 1000. See the full 2022 Bathurst 1000 schedule below, including when the races air in the US.. Tickets for the event are available on Supercars.com and Ticketek. Bruce McPhee and Barry Mulholland were second in an identical car. Morris and Mostert had started the race from last position after being excluded from qualifying. The event, which will be held on October 6-9, will be headlined by the 161-lap Bathurst 1000. Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth were the defending race winner. 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. Initially the Geoghegan brothers' Falcon was awarded victory but some hours later Harry Firth and Fred Gibson were declared winners. 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 global organising body FISA, a subsidiary of the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), allowed more liberal, negotiated interpretations "back home". 2 December 2021. 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. Bathurst 1000 2022 AS IT HAPPENED: Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander win Holden's last Bathurst 1000; Recovery ute causes late-race mayhem By Damien McCartney 6:39pm Oct 9, 2022 However, Ford refined the GT-HO to Phase Two specification with an even more powerful and better breathing 351 V8. Factory teams had the best access to improved components that were often not readily available to private competitors. Holden based race teams continued development of the 308 cubic inch V8 powered Commodore. All cars had to complete the first 100 miles without stopping for fuel, oil or a driver change. In response to Ford's 1967 Bathurst victory, Holden entered the Monaro GTS 327. The 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 saw Volvo return for the first time since 1998, with Garry Rogers Motorsport entering two Volvo S60s. Dick Johnson Racing switched to a 1983 Zakspeed developed Ford Mustang GT formerly raced in Europe by German ace Klaus Ludwig. 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 full schedule has been released leading up to 'The Great Race', including that of the support categories for the October 6-9 event. There was no official outright winner, only class winners. In 2006, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won the first race for Ford in eight years, driving for Triple Eight Race Engineering. [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]. [21] David Reynolds and Luke Youlden continued their form into the 2018 edition, taking pole and leading the majority of the race until Reynolds suffered from leg cramps late in the race, allowing the 2015-winning combination of Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards to take the lead and the eventual victory. 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. [15], The 2016 race, the first under the renamed Supercars Championship banner, featured 91 green laps to start the race, followed by a dramatic and safety car-filled conclusion to proceedings. Pit stops - seven compulsory (can vary for tactics) Race lap record - 2 minutes . 3 0 obj 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). 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The instructions over team radio resulted in Coulthard slowing the field after a safety car was called, which allowed McLaughlin and Jamie Whincup to pit without losing any positions. The Super Touring claim to legitimacy was based on it being held on the traditional date by the ARDC who had run the event every year since 1963. The first turn, Hell Corner, is a ninety-degree left-hander. Class wins were achieved by Studebaker, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot and Renault. Car #97 received a 3-place grid penalty for a causing a collision in Qualifying. To reduce the threat to public safety, homologation rules were relaxed to permit certain modifications to the race cars. What is the Bathurst 1000? Start time - 11.15am. UPDATE 29/11: A slight tweak to Thursdays schedule has seen Australian GT Race 1 and Trans Am Race 2 swap spots. [7] In 1969 there was a multi-car accident on lap one. endobj It was also the year that advertising was first allowed to be displayed on the cars. Best will race with Thomas Randle, with Fraser to line-up with seven-time Bathurst winner Craig Lowndes. The main game heads out for its first session on Thursday as traditional, but teams will only have two practice sessions instead of their usual three; the first is open to either driver, the second for the co-driver only. This video shows the accidents from the support categories throughout the. 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. Prior to that official results reflected four or five class races occurring simultaneously rather than a single race. 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. Imported turbocharged cars, initially Ford Sierra RS Cosworths and then Nissan Skyline GT-Rs, achieved dominance during this period while Holden Commodores managed to claim three hard-fought wins. The second and final round of the reborn Tasman Series will mark S5000s long-awaited debut at Mount Panorama. In 1964 the pair drove competing Cortina GTs; Jane won with George Reynolds as co-driver. 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Rick Kelly became the race's youngest ever winner, winning in 2003 at the age of 20. 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. Cars then negotiate Forrest's Elbow before powering down Conrod Straight, the fastest section of the track where cars can reach 300km/h (190mph). ^3 The first and second position finishers were disqualified post race. <>/Metadata 665 0 R/ViewerPreferences 666 0 R>> 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000 - Supercars Countdown Event starts in. With 100 laps remaining, the officials suspended the race with a red flag, only the third red flag at the race after 1981 and 1992. They were also the first winners of the Peter Brock Trophy (so named following the passing of Peter Brock only the month before). It weighs 2.5kg (6lb) and stands 50 centimetres (20in) tall. The trophy, manufactured by Hardy Brothers, is inscribed with the words "King of the Mountain", a long-time nickname of Brock's. ^6 Race was stopped for over an hour due to the track surface breaking up and requiring repair. When marshals reached the scene, Hulme was unconscious and he was pronounced dead at Bathurst Hospital after suffering a second heart attack. As Richards had been leading the race on that lap his team was declared the winner. Harry Firth was third with John Reaburn. Brock and Bond were drivers for the semi-official Holden Dealer Team (HDT), which had been formed earlier in the year to counter the official Ford Special Vehicles division that was churning out ever evolving GT-HO Falcons. The course continues down to Sulman Park and McPhillamy Park. [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 Trans Am Series wraps up its COVID-shortened season with Nathan Herne on the verge of sealing the 2021 title. Result . The 2022 Bathurst 1000 starts on October 6, 2022 and runs for four days until October 9, 2022. % "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 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 features the biggest schedule in Great Race history with 10 support categories joining Supercars on a six-day joint bill. The closest non-form finish came just the year before, when Tander and Percat lifted the trophy 0.29secs ahead of Lowndes and Skaife. Simultaneously officials red flagged the race due to the perilous condition of the wet track. Eight drivers in the Super2 field will compete in Sundays Great Race. The HDT Toranas soon pitted for wet weather tyres after which the Bond Torana started smoking from an oil leak. Result . The popular muscle cars are one of the first categories to hit the track on Tuesday, with racing beginning Wednesday and finishing up on Friday morning. 2 0 obj 1972 was also the last year that drivers were permitted to drive without co-drivers. Johnson and co-driver Larry Perkins were very competitive in the agile Mustang but it lacked top end power. So far, the all-comers-style category has. Mostert remained at Walkinshaw Andretti United, while Holdsworth moved to Grove Racing as a full time driver. Class E was won by Doug Chivas and Max Stewart in an Alfa GTV. Moffat completed the 500 miles first followed by other GTHOs in second and third place and filling six of the top seven places. 1 0 obj 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 race was run to its full distance and finished in the early evening, with Ford Performance Racing drivers Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris taking victory on the final lap, after the lead car of Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell ran low on fuel. It hosted the eleventh round of the 2022 Supercars Championship. The 2021 series was decided in Bathurst last December, with Broc Feeney clinching the title. The support categories include GT World Challenge Australia, S5000, TCR Australia, Super2, Carrera Cup, Toyota 86s, Trans Am and Touring Car Masters. The car gained the nickname 'Godzilla'. The XU-1 was easier on brakes and tyres, thereby minimizing the number of required pit stops. 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. Brock set off in heroic pursuit of Moffat's Falcon GT but the XU-1 suffered a deflating tyre. 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. Repco, which is sponsoring the Bathurst 1000 for a second time, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This meant that the back markers had to start the race from around the corner on Conrod Straight. Bond returned to the track but lost more time with a spin. [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. SCHEDULE. [10] Upgrades were allowed to seats, lubrication systems, camshafts, carburettors, suspensions, brakes and wheel rim sizes. 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. 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. The HDT and later the Holden Racing Team (HRT) were at the forefront of Commodore development. Regulation decreed that, as the leaders had completed more than 75% of race distance, the race was not to be restarted. This was Holden's first Bathurst 500 win. [7] The race win was therefore awarded to third placed Peter Brock, who drove two of his Holden VL Commodore SS Group A cars during the race. Most notably, there was a late-race incident between Garth Tander and Scott McLaughlin, retiring the former's car, which occurred as Triple Eight's Jamie Whincup attempted to redress a clash between him and McLaughlin at the Chase. Class A was won by the Nissan Factory backed Datsun 1300 of Moto Kitamo and Kunimitsu Takahashi. [3] The track uses temporarily-closed-public roads and is known for the 174-metre (571ft) elevation difference between its highest and lowest points. Group A as an international formula faded away in the late 1980s. Ford Australia is proud to be presenting partner of V8 Sleuths event coverage of the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000. Five-time TCM champion John Bowe leading the points heading into the final round, with 10 drivers still in with a mathematical chance of winning the 2021 title. The Porsches are actually squeezing in two championship rounds at Mount Panorama; Races 1 and 2 will comprise Round 4, while Races 3 and 4 will comprise Round 5. The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) had planned to replace Group A at the end of 1991. ABC News Online", "New title sponsor confirmed for Bathurst 1000", The official website for the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Chequered Flag Motorsport's Virtual Lap of Bathurst, 24H Silverstone European Touring Car Edition, 24 Hours of Barcelona - Trofeo Ferm Vlez, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bathurst_1000&oldid=1146163147, Recurring sporting events established in 1960, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Articles needing additional references from November 2020, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, This page was last edited on 23 March 2023, at 04:06.
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