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. The closest non-form finish came just the year before, when Tander and Percat lifted the trophy 0.29secs ahead of Lowndes and Skaife. Holden based race teams continued development of the 308 cubic inch V8 powered Commodore. Prior to that official results reflected four or five class races occurring simultaneously rather than a single race. The company became a title sponsor of the race between 2002 and 2004. 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. Bruce McPhee and Barry Mulholland were second in an identical car. The car was eventually black flagged. 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. A FIELD of 25 Supercars will pursue victory in the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. His first three wins were with Craig Lowndes, with his fourth coming in 2012. 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 Schedule and Results Tuesday November 30 to Sunday December 05. Dick Johnson Racing switched to a 1983 Zakspeed developed Ford Mustang GT formerly raced in Europe by German ace Klaus Ludwig. Campsite entry is available via Gate 15A with the best event entry being via Gate 19 and Gate . The cars were then lined up on pit straight, and controversy ensued as teams exploited the regulations and performed repairs on the cars. <> 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 2014 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 saw Volvo return for the first time since 1998, with Garry Rogers Motorsport entering two Volvo S60s. Whincup received a fifteen-second time penalty, which meant that despite taking the chequered flag first, he was only classified 11th. The Aussie Tin Tops will return for a third event this year with confirmation it will be part of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 support card. By lap 11 Brock had already lapped 7 of the outright Class D cars. 1970 saw a change of strategy as Holden chose to race the smaller Torana GTR XU-1 rather than the Monaro. to walk across the bridge and down to the Paddock area to see both the Support categories and the Supercars. 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. [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. Melbourne: Used for the Melbourne SuperSprint. All cars had to complete the first 100 miles without stopping for fuel, oil or a driver change. The 1969 race also saw the dbut of Peter Brock. The category also has one of the longer support races on the schedule: the marquee Trans Am Bathurst 100, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Nissan returned with four Nissan Altimas run by Kelly Racing. 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 161-lap race, the 30th race of the season, will start at 11:15am local time (AEDT) on Sunday October 9. BATHURST 1000. 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. The start-finish straight features an offset start, with the finish line towards the back of the starting grid closer to Murray's Corner. 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. Richards became the first driver to win in both a Ford and a Holden in consecutive years. BATHURST 1000. The race was traditionally run on the Labour Day long weekend in New South Wales, in early October. 1966 was the last four cylinder victory for more than two decades. Sunrise mainstay and long-time Supercars presenter Mark Beretta will lead the coverage alongside 7NEWS Sydney's Mel McLaughlin. By the time the XU-1 was refueled, Moffat was well in front. The highest placed Charger was in eighth position. At the end of the year Ford Australia gave the Falcon GT race cars to their drivers and withdrew from racing. . 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. Mark Skaife has also won six times, his first was in 1991, with a Nissan Skyline GT-R. Brock had pushed the car to its limits in a spectacular display of car control. BROKEN gearshift towers have become the latest item for Supercars teams to manage with their Gen3 race cars. Sign up to the Repco Supercars Championship Newsletter, We use cookies to ensure we give you the best experience on our website. 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. 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. 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. In 1987 it was a round of the World Touring Car Championship. The Mount Panorama Circuit was first used on 16 April 1938 for the Australian Tourist Trophy meeting for motorcycles, followed two days later by the Australian Grand Prix for cars. Co-driven by Ian (Pete) Geoghegan the winning Ford was the only Falcon classified as a finisher. [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. 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 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. Drivers' Championship Teams' Championship Notes [28] For the first time since 2000, the event was the final round of the championship, however Scott McLaughlin had already secured an unassailable lead at the penultimate event.[29]. "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. 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). Allan Moffat's GTHO received the chequered flag followed by Bruce McPhee's identical car. Tickets for the Repco Bathurst 1000 are available on Supercars.com and Ticketek. The 2022 Supercars Bathurst 1000 race will officially kick off at 11:15am AEST, on Sunday October 9. Factory teams had the best access to improved components that were often not readily available to private competitors. The 2021 edition of the Bathurst 1000 will be a unique event taking place over six days with a total of nine support categories. 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. 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. Bond returned to the track but lost more time with a spin. The HDT and later the Holden Racing Team (HRT) were at the forefront of Commodore development. 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. . 3 0 obj [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. This was a coupe based on the HK model four-door Kingswood family sedan. ^5 Denotes Australia 1000 races for V8 Supercars category. It was won by the ultimate GT-HO, the XY-model Falcon GT-HO Phase Three. Class wins were achieved by Studebaker, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot and Renault. From 1999 onwards, the race also counted for championship points for the first time, taking a position as the final round on the calendar. Despite there no longer being an October Bathurst race in 2000, the race remained in November due to the Sydney Olympics blocking out sport in October. 10:00-11:00 Supercars - Practice 1; 16:25-17:25 Supercars - Practice 2 (co-drivers only) In 1983, John Harvey also shared the win with Brock and Perkins. The V8 Supercars' case was that they were the truly Australian class of racing and, through contractual binding, had the "star" Australian drivers. 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. Chivas pushed the XU-1 up hill along pit lane. The schedule for this year's Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday. The Top 10 Shootout was cancelled due to inclement weather. They were also the first winners of the Peter Brock Trophy (so named following the passing of Peter Brock only the month before). ^8 - This is the first year with the newly added Chase in Conrod Straight. In addition to the 25 regular entries, three wildcard entries were entered. Support categories will hit the track on Tuesday November 30, with action running through until the end of the Repco Bathurst 1000, the final event of this year's Repco Supercars Championship. 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. 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. Additionally, the 2006 event was marred by the death of New Zealand driver Mark Porter in a Development V8 Supercar Series support race on the Friday of the meeting. The second and final round of the reborn Tasman Series will mark S5000s long-awaited debut at Mount Panorama. It was also the first win for Gibson Motorsport since their wins with Nissan in 1991 and 1992. Each of the four races in 1997 and 1998 are considered as legitimate Bathurst 1000s in the record books.[7]. WHAT time does the 2021 Repco Bathurst 1000 start? 1985 was the first year that the Bathurst 1000 was run under Group A rules. Some European teams, most prominently the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport, ran questionable vehicles. The support categories include GT World Challenge Australia, S5000, TCR Australia, Super2, Carrera Cup, Toyota 86s, Trans Am and Touring Car Masters. The track surface broke up and became unsafe during races. Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander will be hoping to go . Bob Jane won the race four times in succession from 1961 to 1964. The class structure was retained so that there were many "races within the race" but the emphasis on achieving first outright increased. [33] Craig Lowndes, a long time mentee of Brock, has won the trophy a record six times since its inception. Start / End Series Session Duration Results; 08:40 - 09:00. . This meant that the back markers had to start the race from around the corner on Conrod Straight. 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. 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. With the race complete, it was still unclear as to who was the legitimate winner. stream Its 'HO' specification included upgraded suspension components such as front and rear stabiliser bars. Peter Brock died weeks before the 2006 race in an accident during the Targa West rally in Western Australia. %PDF-1.7 2 December 2021. [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. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! 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. However, Ford refined the GT-HO to Phase Two specification with an even more powerful and better breathing 351 V8. Channel 7 had televised the race since 1963 and had a contract that was binding into the 21st century. In more than 180 countries, these customers rely on Ranger to be their reliable partner at work, with family and at play. 12/09/2006. Several cars coming around the blind corner crashed into the stationary car. The XU-1 was more agile, cheaper and more economical. Dick Johnson and John Bowe won a hard-fought race ahead of Allan Moffat Racing's all-German combination of Klaus Niedzwiedz and Frank Biela. Hell Corner Situated after the pit straight Hell corner is a hard 90 left corner and the first of 23 bends along the track. During the 1974 Australian Touring Car Championship the Torana GTR XU-1 was gradually superseded by the wider bodied SL/R 5000. 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. Car number 34, a lone Morris Marina finished 6th in Class C having completed 125 laps. The new joint venture company (AVESCO) signed a TV deal for 1997 with Network Ten, which included expanded coverage of the championship. The Chase is a long sweeping chicane where cars are on the rev limiter turning at 300km/h before a large braking zone to exit at 130km/h (81mph). 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. 17:10 - 17:30. 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. 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. A complex corner called Reid Park comes next, where a number of drivers have spun after not short shifting at the apex.
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