Supercars will be on track on all four days of the event. Holden then started a run of four straight wins from 2009 to 2012. The 2009 race was won by the HRT's Garth Tander and Will Davison. 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. 1985 was the first year that the Bathurst 1000 was run under Group A rules. 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. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recent incarnation of the Australian Touring Car Championship. The track surface broke up and became unsafe during races. As the rain clouds dissipated many unhappy campers loudly voiced their opinions. The 161-lap race, the 30th race of the season, will start at 11:15am local time (AEDT) on Sunday October 9. Having received backlash after announcing they would not race at Bathurst, AVESCO hastily made a deal with the Bathurst Regional Council for the use of the circuit. This 1997 race was won by Paul Morris and Craig Baird in a BMW 320i, however they were later disqualified as Baird had exceeded the mandated time limit for a continuous solo driving period. The 11:15am start time is the same as the 2016, 2017 and 2018 races. Their Ford EL Falcon was badly damaged in a practice crash and required lengthy repairs before the race. SCHEDULE. From 1999 onwards, the race also counted for championship points for the first time, taking a position as the final round on the calendar. Ford Australia is proud to be presenting partner of V8 Sleuths event coverage of the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000. The Top 10 Shootout was cancelled due to inclement weather. The event was first held in 1960 and has traditionally been a battleground for rival automobile manufacturers Ford and Holden. 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results. 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. Best will race with Thomas Randle, with Fraser to line-up with seven-time Bathurst winner Craig Lowndes. 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 resulting culture clash caused considerable angst between officials and team management. Two-race: Used for the Newcastle 500, Townsville 500, Sydney SuperNight, Gold Coast 500 and Adelaide 500. Twenty-eight cars entered the event - 19 Holden Commodores and nine Ford Mustangs, making it the biggest grid since 2013. 1 0 obj Peter Brock cemented his reputation as the driver to beat during this period, including achieving two Bathurst hat-tricks with the Marlboro-sponsored HDT. Factory teams had the best access to improved components that were often not readily available to private competitors. In 1987 it was a round of the World Touring Car Championship. 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). 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. 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). SuperSprint: Used for all SuperSprint races (exc. 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. On the final lap, the two Moffat Ford Dealers entries of Allan Moffat and Colin Bond ran in formation down Conrod Straight, with the helicopter footage of the formation becoming one of the most famous images in Bathurst 1000 history. Class D was won by a Chrysler VC Valiant V8 that completed 124 laps. As Richards had been leading the race on that lap his team was declared the winner. There was no official outright winner, only class winners. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! The global organising body FISA, a subsidiary of the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), allowed more liberal, negotiated interpretations "back home". The Super2 and Super3 Series, Porsche Carrera Cup, TGRA 86 Racing Series and V8 SuperUtes will be joined by a host of Australian Racing Group categories, led by the TCR Australia Series, S5000, Touring Car Masters, Trans Am and Australian GT. 15:55 - 16:55. This iteration evolved into the current Supercars category. 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. ^8 - This is the first year with the newly added Chase in Conrod Straight. Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander claimed their second and fifth event Bathurst 1000 victory respectively, in a Triple Eight Race Engineering run Holden Commodore ZB. Will Dale is V8 Sleuth's Head of Content - Digital. [5] The intention was to determine which cars had the best combination of performance and reliability in five classes based on engine capacity. Tickets for the Repco Bathurst 1000 are available on Supercars.com and Ticketek. 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. Pit stops - seven compulsory (can vary for tactics) Race lap record - 2 minutes . Mount Panorama. The 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 saw the first of the Ford Falcon GT-HOs. It was also the first time since 1977 that an overtly Ford factory backed car triumphed. The winner of the 2 Litre Class was the John Cotter/Peter Doulman BMW M3 which had reverted to 2 litres capacity. In addition to Supercars, support categories Super2, Porsche Carrera Cup, Toyota 86, SuperUtes and Heritage Touring Cars will all go racing around the famous circuit this week. ENTRY LIST:Every car and driver in the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000, BLUE OVAL:Ford partners with V8 Sleuth for the Bathurst 1000. Larry Perkins is the equal fourth most successful driver at Bathurst, with six victories (198284, 1993, 1995 and 1997). 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). [7] In 1969 there was a multi-car accident on lap one. Class wins were achieved by Mazda 1300, Datsun 1600, Mazda RX-2, Torana XU1 and Falcon GTHO.[7]. In 1966 and 1967 an Irish tobacco company sponsored the race, which became known as the "Gallaher 500". "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. 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. Class honours went to Studebaker, Ford, Renault and Volkswagen. The start of this new era was dominated by Holden, who won every Bathurst 1000 from 1999 to 2005. All cars had to complete the first 100 miles without stopping for fuel, oil or a driver change. 10:00-11:00 Supercars - Practice 1; 16:25-17:25 Supercars - Practice 2 (co-drivers only) Navigation. Result . The Skyline's 1992 victory was particularly controversial. This was Holden's first Bathurst 500 win. 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. This years pursuit of the Peter Brock Trophy gets underway on Thursday 2 December with the opening Supercars practice sessions at Mount Panorama. Repco, which is sponsoring the Bathurst 1000 for a second time, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. In 1987, the Bathurst 1000 became a round of the short lived 1987 World Touring Car Championship, resulting in European teams racing against local Australian teams in the 1000. 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. 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. With the race complete, it was still unclear as to who was the legitimate winner. This video shows the accidents from the support categories throughout the. Highlights of the Supercheap Auto Showroom Showdown as part of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Support Category in 2000 The production car battle between the "Big Three" was fought at Bathurst. <> Both the Super Touring and V8 Supercar races claimed to be the legitimate Bathurst 1000. Chivas pushed the XU-1 up hill along pit lane. 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. His pit crew could not lend assistance as this would have resulted in disqualification. 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. 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. A FIELD of 25 Supercars will pursue victory in the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. 1972 was also the last year that drivers were permitted to drive without co-drivers. Your online home for motorsport history and heritage, celebrating the cars and stars of the sport. [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. This event format continued for 1998 with the addition of a field of cars from the New Zealand Touring Car Championship, which ran to Schedule S regulations with a 2.5-litre engine limit, as well as Group E production cars. So far, the all-comers-style category has. The new joint venture company (AVESCO) signed a TV deal for 1997 with Network Ten, which included expanded coverage of the championship. Dick Johnson first rose to fame during the 1980 race when his privately entered Ford Falcon hit a rock that had fallen (or been pushed; the subject is still debated to this day) onto the track. 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). 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. 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. Whincup received a fifteen-second time penalty, which meant that despite taking the chequered flag first, he was only classified 11th. Ford abandoned the XA model based Phase Four GT-HO Falcon. The two other multiple winners from New Zealand are Greg Murphy, who has won the race four times (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2004), and Shane van Gisbergen in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Allan Moffat was unable to withstand the immense pressure placed on him by Brock in his XU-1. Endurance: Used for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000. Car #97 received a 3-place grid penalty for a causing a collision in Qualifying. 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. 1966 was the last four cylinder victory for more than two decades. 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 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 features the biggest schedule in Great Race history with 10 support categories joining Supercars on a six-day joint bill. Bond returned to the track but lost more time with a spin. 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. 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. 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. Simultaneously officials red flagged the race due to the perilous condition of the wet track. 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. BROKEN gearshift towers have become the latest item for Supercars teams to manage with their Gen3 race cars. This Phase One GT-HO Bathurst special Falcon was powered by a 351 cubic inch V8 sourced from Ford America. This page is not available in other languages. He was given the moniker "King of the Mountain" for these reasons.[2]. The first years on the Mount Panorama circuit were dominated by swift and agile small cars, such as the Ford Cortina and Mini Cooper. In 1961 Bob Jane and Harry Firth, sharing an Australian assembled Mercedes-Benz 220 SE, were the first drivers to complete the 167 laps. Tickets for the event are on sale now. 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 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. The race instead moved to the weekend after the long weekend from 2001 onwards, and to an earlier spot in the championship calendar. Family Feud host, and former Bathurst 1000 representative, Grant Denyer, rounded out the top three in the session. The Minis handled the corners well and could, theoretically, run the entire race on a single tank of petrol, but the larger-engined cars were faster in a straight line. The event, which will be held on October 6-9, will be headlined by the 161-lap Bathurst 1000. Support Categories Practice 1 - TCR. 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. [7] Mini Coopers filled the first nine places in Class C and outright. 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]. Since the start of Group A in Australia, CAMS local scrutineers diligently applied the Group A regulations as written. Stoppage time is included in final race time. Chrysler replaced its Pacers with its new two-door, the Charger. Race winners are presented with the Peter Brock Trophy. [7], Rule changes for 1970 enabled a single driver to complete the entire race distance. 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. However, by noon on race day, Moffat was far enough in front to pit without losing the lead. 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. This was also the first year that an official trophy was awarded to the first team to cover the 500 miles. Bathurst has previously hosted a similar category in the form of Combined Sedans, which is a regular support of the Bathurst 12 . Allan Moffat's GTHO received the chequered flag followed by Bruce McPhee's identical car. 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. . The Bathurst 1000 will start at 12:15pm AEDT on Sunday. 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. 1. Greg Murphy was given the biggest time penalty (five minutes) in Bathurst history because of a pitlane infringement by his team. The race was awarded to their BMW Motorsport Australia teammates David and Geoff Brabham. This meant that the back markers had to start the race from around the corner on Conrod Straight. Ford was represented in the outright category by three Falcon Hardtop headed by Moffat's Brut 33 XB Falcon Hardtop GT. THURSDAY . In 1986, Sydney accountant and privateer entrant Mike Burgmann became the first fatality in the race's history when his car, a Holden VK Commodore SS Group A, travelling at 260km/h (160mph), struck the tyre barrier at the base of the Armor All Bridge (then sponsored by John Player Special) on the high-speed straight known as Conrod Straight. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! Designed and engineered right here in Australia. 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. Class wins were achieved by a Datsun 1200, an Alfa GTV, a Mazda RX2 and, of course, the Falcon GT. 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. 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. 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. 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. Of the seven, six will make their debut - Declan Fraser, Matt Payne, Cameron Hill, Aaron Seton, Matt Chahda and Jaylyn Robotham. Brock, meanwhile, was able to hold off the Phase Three GT-HO of John French and the E49 Charger of Doug Chivas to win the 1972 race, thus temporarily refuting the "no substitute for cubic inches" adage. A fierce new opponent was waiting in the wings. Nissan and team manager Fred Gibson, had campaigned Skylines in Australian competition for a few years. This was postponed to the end of 1992 due to the inability of FISA to specify a new International formula. Tuesday November 30. Johnson and co-driver Larry Perkins were very competitive in the agile Mustang but it lacked top end power. The 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 started at 9:30 am. In 1998, Steven Richards did one better, winning the race with Jason Bright for Stone Brothers Racing. 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 XU-1 coasted down Conrod Straight and came to a halt just before the entrance to the Pits. It was won by the ultimate GT-HO, the XY-model Falcon GT-HO Phase Three. to walk across the bridge and down to the Paddock area to see both the Support categories and the Supercars. 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An outright or class victory was a significant opportunity to increase sales and market share. By lap 20 the HDT Toranas of Brock and Bond were over a minute in front of Goss in the only competitive Falcon. The pair repeated the win in controversial circumstances in 1992. 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. The Torana could not compensate for the power advantage that the Falcons had on the Bathurst straights. The race was a disaster for Ford as many Falcon tyres failed due to the speed and weight of the Falcons. Ostensibly this removed the need to build batches of high speed road cars and improved the durability of the actual race cars. Ford unleashed its new XA model "hard top" coupe Ford Falcon GT which had been pioneered by John Goss. 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. In response to Ford's 1967 Bathurst victory, Holden entered the Monaro GTS 327. The 1972 race was a round of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, which was open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars.[6]. This new track surface resulted in a marked reduction of lap times, and during free practice many of the drivers recorded times that were under the existing practice lap record. Brock is the most successful driver in the history of the race, winning the event nine times, and was also known as one of the most popular and fan-friendly drivers during his long career. Pic: Supplied. [16] This allowed the Tekno Autosports entry of Will Davison and Jonathon Webb to take victory, only just over one tenth of a second ahead of the sister Triple Eight entry of Shane van Gisbergen and Alexandre Prmat. Despite having cooling problems in the closing laps of the 2002 Bathurst 1000, due to plastic bags in the air intake, Skaife and HRT won the Bathurst 1000 again, this time teamed with Jim Richards, ten years after they were both heckled off the podium after winning in 1992. 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. Mark Skaife has also won six times, his first was in 1991, with a Nissan Skyline GT-R. The 161-lap Race 30 will commence at 11:15am local time on Sunday October 9. Shane Jones Roar Guru . Peter Brock died weeks before the 2006 race in an accident during the Targa West rally in Western Australia. Rauno Aaltonen and Bob Holden drove their Mini Cooper S to a hard-fought win against stiff competition which mainly consisted of other Coopers. 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. [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. 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 following year, 1986, the Holden VK Commodore SS Group A of privateer racer Allan Grice and Graeme Bailey took the honours. 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. WHERE CAN I WATCH THE 2021 BATHURST 1000? BATHURST 1000. The race was held twice more at Phillip Island. Originally slated to be a support to the Bathurst 1000, the Toyota GAZOO Australia Racing 86 Series appears that preparations are underway by many entrants to contest four non-points paying races at The Mountain. Cars then negotiate Forrest's Elbow before powering down Conrod Straight, the fastest section of the track where cars can reach 300km/h (190mph). 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. In 2006, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup won the first race for Ford in eight years, driving for Triple Eight Race Engineering. 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. Following this, Supercars announced that from 2006 onwards, the drivers in the Bathurst 1000 would be racing to win the Peter Brock Trophy. 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. The Heritage Revival category is part of event celebrations for both Bathurst and title sponsor Repco. 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. The cars were then lined up on pit straight, and controversy ensued as teams exploited the regulations and performed repairs on the cars. It was Lowndes' thirteenth podium at the event, which is an all-time record. He was supported by John Goss and Kevin Bartlett in an XA Hardtop and Murray Carter in another XB Falcon Hardtop.

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