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. 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 quartet represent four of the 12 drivers in this years field who are previous winners of the race, while this year sees 2017 winning drivers David Reynolds and Luke Youlden reunited at Kelly Grove Racing. For the 1990 race, they debuted the R32 four-wheel drive, four wheel steer, twin turbo Nissan Skyline GT-R. The Bathurst 1000, also known as the "Great Race" and held in some form since 1960, . 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. [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. Locally built cars were driven in Europe by Allan Grice, Peter Brock, John Harvey, Allan Moffat, Dick Johnson and John Bowe. endobj Melbourne) and the Darwin Triple Crown. 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 XU-1 was more agile, cheaper and more economical. Notes: 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 V8 SuperUtes and Heritage Revival will race on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the event. ^6 Race was stopped for over an hour due to the track surface breaking up and requiring repair. The full entry list for the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000. In 1990 the Sierras again proved strong, but the HRT Commodore of Allan Grice and Win Percy prevailed. Ten's television series RPM, which has aired from 1997 to 2008, in 2011 and from 2015 onwards, has covered Supercars, . 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. Murphy went on to win the Bathurst 1000 with Rick Kelly in 2003 and 2004 for K-Mart Racing. 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. 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. Navigation. 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. Class A was won by the Nissan Factory backed Datsun 1300 of Moto Kitamo and Kunimitsu Takahashi. 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. The JPS Team BMW run 635 CSis and M3s were also highly competitive during this era. 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. In 1963 the Armstrong 500 moved to the 6.2-kilometre (3.9mi) Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst in New South Wales. Its 'HO' specification included upgraded suspension components such as front and rear stabiliser bars. This featured upgrades to engine power and aerodynamics, which made it one of the world's fastest four-door mass-produced production cars. Jane and Firth switched to a Falcon and once again completed the 500 miles first. 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 support categories include GT World Challenge Australia, S5000, TCR Australia, Super2, Carrera Cup, Toyota 86s, Trans Am and Touring Car Masters. With almost no support from Ford Australia, Group A Ford Falcons never eventuated. The 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 saw Volvo return for the first time since 1998, with Garry Rogers Motorsport entering two Volvo S60s. 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. It hosted the eleventh round of the 2022 Supercars Championship. The resulting culture clash caused considerable angst between officials and team management. Track Distance - 6.213km. The Toyota 86s have their on-track activities spread out across five days, with opening practice on Wednesday ahead of Qualifying and Race 1 on Thursday, plus a race on each of the remaining days of the event. BROKEN gearshift towers have become the latest item for Supercars teams to manage with their Gen3 race cars. endobj The closest non-form finish came just the year before, when Tander and Percat lifted the trophy 0.29secs ahead of Lowndes and Skaife. Ford unleashed its new XA model "hard top" coupe Ford Falcon GT which had been pioneered by John Goss. Pic: Supplied. This years pursuit of the Peter Brock Trophy gets underway on Thursday 2 December with the opening Supercars practice sessions at Mount Panorama. 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. At the end of the year Ford Australia gave the Falcon GT race cars to their drivers and withdrew from racing. Dick Johnson Racing switched to a 1983 Zakspeed developed Ford Mustang GT formerly raced in Europe by German ace Klaus Ludwig. In more than 180 countries, these customers rely on Ranger to be their reliable partner at work, with family and at play. 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. In 1961 Bob Jane and Harry Firth, sharing an Australian assembled Mercedes-Benz 220 SE, were the first drivers to complete the 167 laps. Result . The two classes of touring cars competed in the same races for two championships in 1993. 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. Their Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV was able to set a fast pace early in the race which the Sierras could match but not sustain due to reliability issues, mostly with tyre wear. 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. Following this, Supercars announced that from 2006 onwards, the drivers in the Bathurst 1000 would be racing to win the Peter Brock Trophy. Class wins were achieved by Mazda 1300, Datsun 1600, Mazda RX-2, Torana XU1 and Falcon GTHO.[7]. The winner of the 2 Litre Class was the John Cotter/Peter Doulman BMW M3 which had reverted to 2 litres capacity. Start / End Series Session Duration Results; 08:40 - 09:00. . 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. 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. "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. 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. 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. In response Nissan withdrew from Australian motorsport. Bo Seton and Midge Bosworth completed the 130 laps first. Chrysler also followed by not going ahead with a competition version of its V8-powered Charger. Ford's 351 XC Falcon famously finished first and second in 1977. The Torana could not compensate for the power advantage that the Falcons had on the Bathurst straights. In 2011, Nick Percat became the first rookie to win the Bathurst 1000 since Jacky Ickx in 1977, alongside Garth Tander, with Tander only just holding off Lowndes in a close finish.[7]. [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 highly regarded, and more expensive, Alfa GTV had been seen as the emerging force in touring cars. Rauno Aaltonen and Bob Holden drove their Mini Cooper S to a hard-fought win against stiff competition which mainly consisted of other Coopers. Intending to perform one less pit stop than the Ford teams, HDT team manager Harry Firth had instructed Chivas to "Get Max Laps" via a hand held sign. ^4 The first position finisher was disqualified post race. Two-race: Used for the Newcastle 500, Townsville 500, Sydney SuperNight, Gold Coast 500 and Adelaide 500. Greg Murphy was given the biggest time penalty (five minutes) in Bathurst history because of a pitlane infringement by his team. endobj <>/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>> 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. Start time - 11.15am. 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. This meant that the back markers had to start the race from around the corner on Conrod Straight. [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. 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000 - Supercars Countdown Event starts in. Their Ford EL Falcon was badly damaged in a practice crash and required lengthy repairs before the race. 1965 brought victory for the first overt "Bathurst Special", the Cortina GT 500. 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. Since 1999, the race has been run exclusively for the Supercars category, and is run for championship points. [11] This was Moffat's last Bathurst 1000 victory. 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. Race Distance - 161 laps. 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 . The track surface broke up and became unsafe during races. This complex added 41 metres to the length of the track and was designed to reduce the approach speed to Murray's Corner by approximately 100km/h (62mph). At the end of lap one Fords held the first four places with Toranas fifth, six and seventh. Class D was won by a Chrysler VC Valiant V8 that completed 124 laps. Brock inherited the lead when the Fords started pitting for fuel. Spectator vantage points have also become less intimate to the track over recent years, with increased run-off size and debris fencing being installed around the track due to increasing international FIA standards.[4]. The support categories include GT World Challenge Australia, S5000, TCR Australia, Super2, Carrera Cup, Toyota 86s, Trans Am and Touring Car Masters. Bathurst 1000: Support category wrap. In the 1994 season, the 2-litre Super Touring championship was run separately to the ATCC, though both categories ran as two classes at Bathurst. Garth Tander is a five time winner, all of which with Holdens. By lap 85 the two HDT Toranas were four laps clear of the field. 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. The schedule for this years Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. 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. ^5 Denotes Australia 1000 races for V8 Supercars category. The 2019 race only featured one safety car in the first 101 laps, but the final 60 laps featured seven, eventually resulting in a one lap sprint to the chequered flag. Four leading categories will take centre stage at next months Repco Bathurst 1000. 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. 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. Some European teams, most prominently the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport, ran questionable vehicles. 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. Triple carburettors on the "Red" motor provided an excellent power-to-weight ratio. In 2006, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won the first race for Ford in eight years, driving for Triple Eight Race Engineering. 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. The Bathurst 1000 (formally known as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a 1,000-kilometre (621.4mi) touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. In this Playlist, all of the Races, including highlights, and Support Categories over the years of the Bathurst 1000 which have been held at Mount Panorama. 1985 was the first year that the Bathurst 1000 was run under Group A rules. Group A as an international formula faded away in the late 1980s. 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 race continued to be run to unique regulations which were more restrictive than those which were applied to Series Production racing. The 1995 champions were Larry Perkins and Russell Ingall in a Holden VR Commodore, followed by Alan Jones and Allan Grice in an EF Falcon. 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. In 1978 and 1979 he and Jim Richards drove an A9X Torana to victory, while in 1980 the pair won in a VC Commodore. Support Categories Practice 1 - TCR. Frank Coad and John Roxburgh in a Vauxhall Cresta, were the first to complete the 500-mile race distance. 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 following year, 1986, the Holden VK Commodore SS Group A of privateer racer Allan Grice and Graeme Bailey took the honours. 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. <> They will be on track on every single day of the event, including as one of the curtain-raisers to the Bathurst 1000.