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. ^7 - The first position finisher was assessed a post-race time penalty for violating driving standards. [33] Craig Lowndes, a long time mentee of Brock, has won the trophy a record six times since its inception. 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. Pit stops - seven compulsory (can vary for tactics) Race lap record - 2 minutes . 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. 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. Its 'HO' specification included upgraded suspension components such as front and rear stabiliser bars. This years event will take place with a substantial trackside crowd following the capped numbers last year due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, but lingering travel restrictions have prevented some drivers from taking part. Campsite entry is available via Gate 15A with the best event entry being via Gate 19 and Gate . Garth Tander is a five time winner, all of which with Holdens. 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). 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. A complex corner called Reid Park comes next, where a number of drivers have spun after not short shifting at the apex. The XU-1 was easier on brakes and tyres, thereby minimizing the number of required pit stops. 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. Entries with a grey background are wildcard entries which do not compete in the full championship season. It was also the first win for Gibson Motorsport since their wins with Nissan in 1991 and 1992. [13], In 2015, Chaz Mostert experienced a major reversal of fortunes, with a heavy qualifying crash leaving him with a fractured femur and wrist, and ruling his car out for the weekend. Notes: 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. Melbourne) and the Darwin Triple Crown. The production car battle between the "Big Three" was fought at Bathurst. 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. 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. The Holden Bathurst contingent for this year included 13 SL/R 5000s, 7 XU-1s and one HQ Monaro GTS. It was Holden's 36th and final win in their final start at the Bathurst 1000.[1]. 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. Four leading categories will take centre stage at next months Repco Bathurst 1000. As a result, the top ten positions on the grid were determined by the order of the original Friday Qualifying session.[14]. The Top 10 Shootout was cancelled due to inclement weather. 1965 brought victory for the first overt "Bathurst Special", the Cortina GT 500. 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. 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. Class A was won by the Nissan Factory backed Datsun 1300 of Moto Kitamo and Kunimitsu Takahashi. The schedule for this year's Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. 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 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. Like Jim Richards, Perkins achieved three of his victories as co-drivers with Brock in consecutive years in the Holden Dealer Team era. 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000 - Supercars Countdown Event starts in. 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 HDT Toranas soon pitted for wet weather tyres after which the Bond Torana started smoking from an oil leak. The smaller classes were won by a Morris Cooper S, an Alfa GTV and a Mazda RX3. In those days the Phillip Island track was surfaced with a "cold mix" bitumen which could not stand up to the pounding of dozens of race cars going flat out for 500 miles. A vast array of cars from different eras are expected to line-up in the Heritage Revival category. 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]. The Heritage Revival category is part of event celebrations for both Bathurst and title sponsor Repco. Mark Skaife has also won six times, his first was in 1991, with a Nissan Skyline GT-R. At the end of the year Ford Australia gave the Falcon GT race cars to their drivers and withdrew from racing. As it could not be proven that the instructions were intended to advantage McLaughlin and Prmat, their race win remained. Due to the size of the Ford and Holden rivalry, for 1995 to 1996, for the 1997 and 1998 Australia 1000 races and from 1999 to 2012, Group 3A and later V8 Supercars rules mandated that only Fords and Holdens were allowed to compete in the race, using their Falcon and Commodore models respectively. There was no official outright winner, only class winners. [7], In 2001, Mark Skaife, driving for the Holden Racing Team, teamed with 1988 winner Tony Longhurst to win the Bathurst 1000 in a Holden VX Commodore. 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. All support category races were tied up with the Formula One Rolex Australian Grand Prix broadcast rights as a package. 1967 was also the first year that starting grid positions were allocated according to practice lap times rather than by class groupings. Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth were the defending race winner. It hosted the eleventh round of the 2022 Supercars Championship. 30 mins. The most iconic race in Australia and known throughout the world, the 2022 Bathurst 1000 will see 28 Supercars, either Ford Mustangs or Holden Commodores, complete 161 laps of the world famous Mount Panorama circuit for a total of 1000 kilometers from start to finish. Chrysler replaced its Pacers with its new two-door, the Charger. Designed and engineered right here in Australia. Bo Seton and Midge Bosworth completed the 130 laps first. Hell Corner Situated after the pit straight Hell corner is a hard 90 left corner and the first of 23 bends along 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 only other car on the same lap was the Forbes/Negus SL/R 5000. For 1999, the Super Touring event devolved into a 300-kilometre race for mixed V8s, which was won by Peter Brock's step-son James Brock, and a 500-kilometre race for Super Touring won by Paul Morris. However, the Falcon GT's V8 power was well suited to the Mount Panorama circuit, particularly on the long straights. 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. Thus was forged the adage that "there is no substitute for cubic inches", which became synonymous with racing at Bathurst. 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. [7] This change favoured the larger, thirstier Fords and Holdens. Murray's is the 23rd and final turn, and also the slowest part of the circuit, before cars return to the start-finish straight. Ford abandoned the XA model based Phase Four GT-HO Falcon. [7] Ford's development of the 289 cubic inch V8 Ford Falcon GT signalled the end of small cars as outright contenders. Richards' son Steven is also a five-time winner (1998, 1999, 2013, 2015 and 2018). Fast facts: Date - Sunday 9 October 2022. In 1978 and 1979 he and Jim Richards drove an A9X Torana to victory, while in 1980 the pair won in a VC Commodore. Pic: Australian Racing Group 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 Torana proved more than a match in the atrocious conditions. [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. 1974 winner John Goss, and West German driver Armin Hahne claimed Jaguar's only Bathurst 1000 win. Support categories will hit the [] He became part of the V8 Sleuth team in 2018. Following this, Supercars announced that from 2006 onwards, the drivers in the Bathurst 1000 would be racing to win the Peter Brock Trophy. It was also the year that advertising was first allowed to be displayed on the cars. The 11:15am start time is the same as the 2016, 2017 and 2018 races. 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. When the flag dropped the "no substitute for cubic inches" ethic prevailed as the Goss Falcon hardtop powered away from pole position. ;z,MvIOa~w_vwO;d9:J>UQy{4$sTF~c lBI5qCw#W{P>P?\0\H9. 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. The full entry list for the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000. This was a coupe based on the HK model four-door Kingswood family sedan. ^9 - Race record for time elapsed & average speed. The popularity of the race grew rapidly during the 1960s. 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. 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. Local Sierra teams dominated and won the next two Bathurst 1000s. Sorry, you have Javascript Disabled! Third outright and first in Class C were Brian Foley and Peter Manton in a Morris Cooper S. The Geoghegan brothers, Ian and Leo, famously drove the race wearing business suits supplied by McDowells. 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. 1988 saw Tony Longhurst and Tomas Mezera win in their Frank Gardner-prepared, RS500. Both the Super Touring and V8 Supercar races claimed to be the legitimate Bathurst 1000. The HDT and later the Holden Racing Team (HRT) were at the forefront of Commodore development. Between the 2013 and 2014 races, the track was resurfaced. The JPS Team BMW run 635 CSis and M3s were also highly competitive during this era. Holden then started a run of four straight wins from 2009 to 2012. Bathurst 1000: Support category wrap. 1. Ten's television series RPM, which has aired from 1997 to 2008, in 2011 and from 2015 onwards, has covered Supercars, . Scott McLaughlin, driving with Alexandre Prmat, held on to win from the Triple Eight entry of Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander and in doing so won the first Bathurst 1000 for the Ford Mustang nameplate, the first for Dick Johnson Racing since Team Penske took a stake in the team in 2014 and the first for the team as a whole since 1994. A number of drivers in the Carrera Cup field will also race in the Repco Bathurst 1000. Holden and Ford were the only manufacturers to win under these regulations, despite facing increased imported competition, notably from the Mazda RX-7 that was campaigned effectively by Moffat and Kevin Bartlett's 350 V8 powered Chevrolet Camaro. [22] It took Lowndes to seven event wins and Richards to five. The first years on the Mount Panorama circuit were dominated by swift and agile small cars, such as the Ford Cortina and Mini Cooper. The 2022 Bathurst 1000 starts on October 6, 2022 and runs for four days until October 9, 2022. V8 Sleuth is Australia's Home of Motorsport. Tom Walkinshaw also briefly campaigned VL Commodores in Europe. 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 trophy, manufactured by Hardy Brothers, is inscribed with the words "King of the Mountain", a long-time nickname of Brock's. Car #97 received a 3-place grid penalty for a causing a collision in Qualifying. [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. Become a subscriber to the V8 Sleuth Newsletter to get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox. This years Great Race comes on the 50th anniversary of Peter Brocks maiden win. Result . 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. By lap 11 Brock had already lapped 7 of the outright Class D cars. Stoppage time is included in final race time. As well as these races for two-litre cars, separate five-litre (V8 Supercars) races were held in 1997 and 1998, known as the "Australian 1000 Classic". The closest non-form finish came just the year before, when Tander and Percat lifted the trophy 0.29secs ahead of Lowndes and Skaife. Some European teams, most prominently the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport, ran questionable vehicles. It was won by the ultimate GT-HO, the XY-model Falcon GT-HO Phase Three. 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. Prior to that official results reflected four or five class races occurring simultaneously rather than a single race. 2010 saw another win for Lowndes and Triple Eight, this time with Mark Skaife, their fifth and sixth wins respectively. 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. 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. What is the Bathurst 1000? SCHEDULE. 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. It was the only Vauxhall in a field of 45 cars that included N.S.U.s, Simcas, Peugeots, Morris, Austins, Fords and Standard Vanguards. 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. 1985 was the first year that the Bathurst 1000 was run under Group A rules. [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]. ENTRY LIST:Every car and driver in the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000, BLUE OVAL:Ford partners with V8 Sleuth for the Bathurst 1000. 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. 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. 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. Teams Grove Racing, Matt Chahda Motorsport and PremiAir Racing made their debut in the Bathurst 1000. %PDF-1.7 The highest placed Charger was in eighth position. Ostensibly this removed the need to build batches of high speed road cars and improved the durability of the actual race cars. The two classes of touring cars competed in the same races for two championships in 1993. Larry Perkins is the equal fourth most successful driver at Bathurst, with six victories (198284, 1993, 1995 and 1997). 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. The category also has one of the longer support races on the schedule: the marquee Trans Am Bathurst 100, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. BROKEN gearshift towers have become the latest item for Supercars teams to manage with their Gen3 race cars. 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. Eight drivers in the Super2 field will compete in Sundays Great Race. As with the early Phillip Island races, some of this new surface started to break up early in the race, particularly at Griffin's Bend. Holden based race teams continued development of the 308 cubic inch V8 powered Commodore. . The Dunlop Series will make its 23rd appearance at Mount Panorama. 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. For the 1990 race, they debuted the R32 four-wheel drive, four wheel steer, twin turbo Nissan Skyline GT-R. 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. In 1966 and 1967 an Irish tobacco company sponsored the race, which became known as the "Gallaher 500". The global organising body FISA, a subsidiary of the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), allowed more liberal, negotiated interpretations "back home". Sydney driver Mike Burgmann died when his VK Commodore hit the concrete base of the bridge over Conrod Straight at 260km/h (160mph). Result . Sorry, you have Javascript Disabled! 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results. 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. V8 SuperUtes and Heritage Revival will race on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the event. Become a subscriber to the V8 Sleuth Newsletter to get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox. The 1972 race was a round of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, which was open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars.[6]. In 1999 and 2000, it was the final round of the championship and decided the championship winner on each occasion. The new joint venture company (AVESCO) signed a TV deal for 1997 with Network Ten, which included expanded coverage of the championship. 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. 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. This was also the first year that an official trophy was awarded to the first team to cover the 500 miles. stream [10] Upgrades were allowed to seats, lubrication systems, camshafts, carburettors, suspensions, brakes and wheel rim sizes.

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