2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, 10-13 October

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2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, 10-13 October

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We usually have a thread for this event....

The Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, 10-13 October 2019, is the most prestigious race in Australian motorsport, on one of the world's greatest race tracks.

The unforgiving, mountainous track is the ultimate battleground – where a 1000km endurance race is won and lost on the very last lap.

From last years thread some borrowed info:

BATHURST & MOTOR RACING

Bathurst has had a long association with motor racing, for both cars and motorcycles.

Motorcycle racing is generally believed to have started in Bathurst around 1911 on the roads in the Kelso/Sunny Corner area. Today, the Long Track is a highly popular inclusion on the Motorcycling Australia calendar as is the new Supermotard competition. Panorama Motorcycle Club runs the motocross track at the top of Mount Panorama, with regular club meets.

Speedway style racing commenced in 1931 on what was known as the Vale Circuit. This continued until 1937, when the newly-built circuit at Mount Panorama was completed. The first race was held there in March 1938.

Mount Panorama has hosted various Australian Grand Prix, for both motor-cycles and open four-wheelers and, since October 1963, has been both the spiritual and physical home of touring car racing in this country.

Today, the City of Bathurst is virtually synonymous with motor racing, known throughout the world because of its challenging and picturesque motor racing circuit.

THE CIRCUIT

Originally constructed in 1938 as a scenic tourist drive, Mount Panorama has hosted all types of motorsport including the world famous Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, the annual 12 Hour GT race, 24 Hour endurance races and the Easter motorcycle meetings.

The circuit is public road on non-race weekends and has also hosted the Australian Grand Prix in the past. It remains one of the all-time favourite circuits of V8 Supercar drivers and is ranked among the great race tracks of the world.

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Circuit Overview

Location: Bathurst, New South Wales
Length: 6.21 kilometres
Direction: Anti-Clockwise
Maximum speed: 300km/h
Fastest Point: Conrod Straight
Average Speed: 178km/h

Just chuck in that at it's steepest the gradient is 1:6. Serious shit.

Race history

The race has a long and colourful history, having been conducted for numerous categories such as production cars, Group C, Group A, Super Touring and currently the popular V8 Supercar category.

Although the Bathurst 1000 is today run by just two marques, Ford and Holden, makes as diverse as Mini, Jaguar, BMW, Nissan and Volvo have also tasted success at "The Mountain". Holden has the most victories at Bathurst with 25 wins, while Ford has 16 (or 17 if including the victory from the 1962 Phillip Island event).

Mount Panorama at Bathurst is 210 kilometres west of Sydney and is the focal point of Australian Motor Racing. The six kilometre anti clockwise track is normally a public road and was first used in 1938, with Easter Sunday motorcycle racing. However, World War II intervened, and racing didn't resume until 1947, with the Australian Grand Prix. Further Grand Prix meetings were held in 1952 and 1954. However, the feature event of the Mount Panorama circuit is the Bathurst 1000, held in October each year for touring cars and the track has undergone many changes in the interest of safety over the years.

The Great Race was first held in 1960 at Phillip Island as the Armstrong 500. The race was originally over 130 laps or 500 miles and was originally conceived as the ultimate endurance test of production cars. The early races were separated into classes according to buying price, that way the public knew what their buying dollar would bring in terms of performance and reliability. Bob Jane and Harry Firth were the stars of the early races winning in a Falcon and Mercedes.

The race moved to Mt Panorama in 1963 after the track at Phillip Island, in Victoria, needed resurfacing after the 1962 race. The original line of thought was that Bathurst was made for small cars because the big V8s struggled due to excessive wear of tyres and brakes. But the Mini Cooper S victory in 1966 was in fact the last time a normally aspirated 4 cylinder car has taken outright honours at Bathurst.

The following year a V8 finally won, the XR Falcon GT of Firth and Fred Gibson. Holden scored its first win the next year in a Monaro and in 1969 as well. Allan Moffat then dominated the race in 1970 and 1971 to create the Falcon GTHO legend.

Holden had by this stage dropped the V8 from its racing program to race a light weight car powered by a six cylinder, triple carburetted engine, the LJ Torana XU-1. Peter Brock won in 1972 thanks to its superior fuel economy and handling in the wet conditions.

Bathurst was now seen as the most important race to car companies with the catch phrase being, "Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday". With that in mind the Big Three (Ford, Holden & Chrysler) set about making Bathurst specials, race cars to be sold as road cars. Ford had the Phase Four Falcon GTHO, Holden the XU-2 (a V8 powered LJ Torana) and Chrysler had the Charger V8. An article about these developing Supercars saw the government ban such projects and these Supercars became stillborn.

In 1973 the race changed to 163 laps or 1000 kilometres, hence the name. Meanwhile Brock looked set to win again in 1973 until his car ran out of fuel to allow Moffat to win in a XA Falcon GT. The return of the Holden V8 to racing saw wins in 1975 and 1976. Moffat then engineered the classic Ford 1-2 victory in 1977 but after Brock returned to the Holden Dealer Team he won from 1978 - 1984, the exception being in 1981when Dick Johnson won a shortened race (120 laps). The race was stopped after Bob Morris and Christine Gibson in XD Falcons collided at McPhillamy Park to cause a multiple pile up. After the 1981 race the track was widened at McPhillamy Park to allow crashed cars to leave the race track.

A Dick Johnson crash in qualifying, when his car went through the trees at Forrest Elbow in 1983, prompted safety fences to be installed all the way around the circuit and the pit entrance moved from Pit Straight to the end of Conrod Straight.

By the end of 1984 the Bathurst race was no longer a production car race, the cars were looking more like sport sedans, so a change was needed to renew public interest. The advent of Group A in 1985 saw the demise of the Ford Falcon, Nissan Bluebird, Mazda RX7 and the Chevrolet Camaro replaced with Jaguars, BMWs and Volvo Turbos. The BMW, despite winning the Australian Touring Car Championship, ran second to the Tom Walkinshaw Jaguars in 1985.

Allan Grice returned the Commodore to the winners list in 1986. A fatal race accident on Conrod Straight in the 1986 race, when Mike Burgmann struck the Bridgestone bridge, added the Caltex Chase to the circuit, to not limit the speed down Conrod Straight but to reduce the length of time cars travelled at high speed. The subsequent addition of the chase reduced the number of laps. The Bathurst 1000 now comprises 161 laps, in all more than 6 hours of fast and furious motor racing.

The Ford Sierra Turbo arrived in 1987 to win the race (later disqualified) but despite being the fastest car at that time it was also unreliable. Turbos were a lap to lap proposition, but despite the high attrition rate of Sierra race cars they won in 1988 and 1989. In 1990 a Commodore won due to all the leading Sierras breaking down.

By 1991 Nissan had fully developed the ultimate Group A race car, the twin turbo six cylinder 4WD Nissan GT-R. Nissan won twice, in 1991 and in 1992 when torrential rain lashed the circuit and caused chaos as cars on slick tyres spun off the circuit at an alarming rate. The race was red flagged after the 143rd lap only for the sun to reappear within ten minutes! But their dominance caused a change in the rules again.

A return to the old Holden - Ford V8 war was hoped to renew interest in touring car racing. By 1993 turbos were no more and Larry Perkins became a hero by beating former Nissan drivers, Jim Richards and Mark Skaife. In 1994 Johnson and John Bowe won the race in a Falcon over a 20 year old rookie, Craig Lowndes, and in 1995 Perkins reaffirmed his hero status when he drove from last place to win.

The 1996 race commenced in a downpour, but 22 year old Craig Lowndes and 24 year old Greg Murphy dominated, becoming the youngest drivers to win, and Lowndes became only the second driver, after Peter Brock, to win the Touring Car Championship, Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 in the same year, all in his rookie year.

But this is part of what makes the Bathurst 1000 remain one of Australia's most popular motor races, bringing tens-of-thousands of visitors to the city of Bathurst for the October long weekend.

Over the years racing ‘royalty’ has competed with a list of who’s who including Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss, Johnny Rutherford, Jacky Ickx (1977 winner), Denny Hulme, Armin Hahne (1985 winner), Rauno Aaltonen (1966 winner), Janet Guthrie, Dieter Quester, Johnny Cecotto, Roberto Ravaglia, Gianfranco Brancatelli, Roland Ratzenberger, Emanuele Pirro, Klaus Niedzwiedz, Klaus Ludwig, Henri Pescarolo, Derek Bell, John Fitzpatrick, Satoru Nakajima and many, many others from International Touring Car Categories world wide.

And then there was German royalty. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold Von Bayern of Bavaria and of course he drove a BMW.
During the days of the Group A formula Prince Leopold was enticed to Bathurst to race in the 1000km race in 1984.

He was sided with the 1967 F1 World Champion Denny Hulme in Frank Gardner’s JPS Team BMW 635CSi.
The pair managed to finish 15th, second in class but four laps behind the class-winning TWR Rover. But not after the Prince destroyed the car in practice when he arrived at the Dipper thinking it was a fast corner...... went in so hard that he also destroyed TV cameras the other side of a concrete barrier.




PREVIOUS NAMES OF 'THE GREAT RACE'

The race has changed names several times over the years to reflect naming rights sponsorship, and the change in race distance from 500 miles to 1000 kilometres (approx. 621 miles).

* Armstrong 500 (1963-1965)
* Gallaher 500 (1966-1967)
* Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968-1972)
* Hardie Ferodo 1000 (1973-1980)
* James Hardie 1000 (1981-1987)
* Tooheys 1000 (1988-1995)
* AMP Bathurst 1000 (1996-1998)
* Primus 1000 Classic (1997*)
* FAI 1000 Classic (1998*-2000)
* V8 Supercar 1000 (2001)
* Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 (2002-2004)
* Supercheap Auto 1000 (2005-present)


Famous winners

The most successful driver at Bathurst is the late Peter Brock, whose nine victories (1972, 1975, 1978-80, 1982-84 and 1987) earned him the nickname King of the Mountain.

Jim Richards has won the race seven times (1978-80, 1991-92, 1998 and 2002) and also holds the record for the most starts (35) at this event. Larry Perkins is the third most successful driver at Bathurst, with six victories (1982-84, 1993, 1995 and 1997). Both Richards and Perkins have shared some of their victories as co-drivers with Brock.

Canadian-born Allan Moffat is considered by many to be Ford's greatest Bathurst driver, winning the race four times (1970, 1971, 1973 and 1977). The 1977 race saw Moffat and team-mate Colin Bond cross the finish line side by side after opening up an indomitable lead in the early laps.

Mark Skaife has won six times, his first was in 1991, with a Nissan Skyline GT-R. He also won in 1992 in the same car, and in 2001,2002 and 2005 in a Holden Commodore. Final win was with Craig Lowndes in 2010

Craig Lowndes has won 7 '1000's, winning the 2018 race with Steven Richards

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. Thanks to public donations of over AU$70,000 - and a matching donation from Ford Motor Company - Johnson was able to rebuild his car and win the Bathurst race the following year. He went on to win twice more, in 1989 and 1994.

Kiwi born Greg Murphy has won 4 times

This year of course the Ford charge will feature the Mustang for the first time in many years.

Over the years the Falcon has scored 14 of Blue Oval’s 19 Bathurst wins with the first arriving in 1967 courtesy of Harry Firth and Fred Gibson.

“Every Bathurst win Ford ever had has, of course, been with the Falcon, in whatever model was relevant.



Ford Falcon wins at Bathurst

Year Drivers Falcon Model
1967 Fred Gibson/Harry Firth XR GT
1970 Allan Moffat XW GTHO Phase II
1971 Allan Moffat XY GTHO Phase III
1973 Allan Moffat/Ian Geoghegan XA GT
1974 John Goss/Kevin Bartlett XA GT
1977 Allan Moffat/Jacky Ickx XC GS500
1981 Dick Johnson/John French XD
1994 Dick Johnson/John Bowe EB
1998 Jason Bright/Steven Richards EL
2006 Craig Lowndes/Jamie Whincup BA
2007 Craig Lowndes/Jamie Whincup BF
2008 Craig Lowndes/Jamie Whincup BF
2013 Mark Winterbottom/Steven Richards (Tickford) FG
2014 Chaz Mostert/Paul Morris (Tickford) FG

They have not had a win for a few years now, but with the Mustang being the car to beat in the Sprint races so far, and Scotty Mac the runaway championship leader this year, will that change.


Schedule for this years event starting in just over a weeks time.

PRACTICE 1 THU 9:55 AM - 10:55 AM
PRACTICE 2 - ADDITIONAL DRIVERS ONLY THU 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
PRACTICE 3 THU 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
PRACTICE 4 - ADDITIONAL DRIVERS ONLY FRI 8:25 AM - 9:25 AM
PRACTICE 5 FRI 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM
ARMOR ALL QUALIFYING RACE 25 FRI 4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
PRACTICE 6 SAT 9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
PRACTICE 7 SAT 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
ARMOR ALL TOP TEN SHOOTOUT RACE 25 SAT 5:05 PM - 5:50 PM
WARM UP SUN 8:20 AM - 8:40 AM
RACE 25 SUN 11:30 AM - 6:30 PM
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A few livery tweaks and changes for a number of cars....

the Tickford Bottle O car

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Walkinshaw Andretti United has released images of its wildcard entry for IndyCar stars Alexander Rossi and James Hinchcliffe for this year’s Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

Set to race as #27, the number which Rossi competes under in IndyCar. Rossi is a V*SC Rookie, Hinchcliffe, has one Supercars event start to his name on the Gold Coast in 2012,

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Most notable livery tweak though is the T888 Red Bull Holden Team which are running a retro HDT look on both their cars. The livery — which is a throwback to the Toranas raced by Peter Brock and Colin Bond in 1971 — is predominantly white with splashes of red and black.

The throwback colours are recognition of Holden celebrating 50 years of factory involvement in Australian motorsport.

The livery will also be carried on the #97 entry of Shane van Gisbergen and three-time Bathurst winner Garth Tander.

The race weekend marks a return of #888, which was benched by the Holden squad following Lowndes’ full-time retirement last season.

Whincup and Lowndes won the 1000km classic three times on the trot between 2006 and 2008, and finished fifth in their final race together in 2009 before primary drivers were split from 2010.

Lowndes added wins with Mark Skaife in 2010, and with Steven Richards in 2015 and 2018.

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Short highlights of last years race.




Scott McLaughlin completes first (V8SC) 2.03 lap at Mount Panorama, Bathurst in last years qualifying


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Rossi had a minor crash during testing at Winton today which has meant they lost their third test day. The car is not badly damaged though and they'll have no trouble making the race next week.
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theracer120 wrote: 4 years ago Rossi had a minor crash during testing at Winton today which has meant they lost their third test day. The car is not badly damaged though and they'll have no trouble making the race next week.
Not what you want as a driver the day after stating the cars to be easier to drive / get used to than expected...

Said to be a minor crash somehow doesnt fit in with the fact it has had to go back to the factory at Clayton to be repaired. Presumably they will do an all nighter and have it back at Winton (some 250+ kms /3+ hours away from Clayton). They have now said there was no major structural damage.

If they dont make it back to Winton for the final day, Hinch will be short of seat time pre Bathurst. I think he has only had 10 laps in the car and today was meant to be his day (yesterday was Rossi's day)

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Cheeveer wrote: 4 years ago
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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 4 years ago Said to be a minor crash somehow doesnt fit in with the fact it has had to go back to the factory at Clayton to be repaired. Presumably they will do an all nighter and have it back at Winton (some 250+ kms /3+ hours away from Clayton). They have now said there was no major structural damage.
Could be that they didn't bring many spares (or were just being extra cautious)
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It seems Rossi binned it later in the day so presume Hinch must have got some miles in it.
Anyway it is probably on the chassis jig now having any of the (not major) structural damage fixed. The fact it needed to go on the jig would be enough to curtail any further running until it was straight, rather than do a trackside repair that isnt quite right ... especially with Rookie drivers / Bathurst Virgins at the wheel. No point at arriving at the Mountain with an almost straight car.

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Final line up now confirmed with the as expected news that Jono Webb will co-drive his Tekno Commodore with regular driver Jack Le Brocq.
So, a 26-car field will head to Mount Panorama next week, with wildcards from Walkinshaw Andretti United and Kostecki Brothers Racing adding to the regular 24 entries.

2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 line-up

# Team Primary Driver Co-Driver Car
2 Mobil 1 Racing Scott Pye Warren Luff Holden
3 RABBLE.club Racing Garry Jacobson Dean Fiore Nissan
5 The Bottle-O Racing Team Lee Holdsworth Thomas Randle Ford
6 Monster Energy Racing Cameron Waters Michael Caruso Ford
7 Plus Fitness Racing Andre Heimgartner Bryce Fullwood Nissan
8 Brad Jones Racing Nick Percat Tim Blanchard Holden
9 Penrite Racing David Reynolds Luke Youlden Holden
12 Shell V-Power Racing Fabian Coulthard Tony D'Alberto Ford
14 Freightliner Racing Tim Slade Ash Walsh Holden
15 Castrol Racing Rick Kelly Dale Wood Nissan
17 Shell V-Power Racing Scott McLaughlin Alex Premat Ford
18 IRWIN Racing Mark Winterbottom Steven Richards Holden
19 Truck Assist TEKNO Jack Le Brocq Jonathon Webb Holden
21 Team CoolDrive Macauley Jones Dean Canto Holden
22 Mobil 1 Racing James Courtney Jack Perkins Holden
23 Milwaukee Racing Will Davison Alex Davison Ford
27 Walkinshaw Andretti United Alexander Rossi James Hinchcliffe Holden
33 Boost Mobile Racing Richie Stanaway Chris Pither Holden
34 Boost Mobile Racing James Golding Richard Muscat Holden
35 Bigmate Racing Todd Hazelwood Jack Smith Holden
55 Supercheap Auto Racing Chaz Mostert James Moffat Ford
56 Kostecki Brothers Racing Brodie Kostecki Jake Kostecki Holden
78 Team Harvey Norman Simona De Silvestro Alex Rullo Nissan
97 Red Bull Holden Racing Team Shane van Gisbergen Garth Tander Holden
99 Penrite Racing Anton De Pasquale Will Brown Holden
888 Red Bull Holden Racing Team Jamie Whincup Craig Lowndes Holden

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More on the livery front with BJR confirming Mobil oil and 7-Eleven as their major sponsors on the #8 Brad Jones Racing Holden to be driven by Percat and
Blanchard. at Bathurst.
Must admit the Mobil livery is very reminiscent of the old Brock Mobil sponsorship colours

Mobil are busy with their backing now covering WAU and BJR.

For those in England that may not be familiar with 7-Eleven they came to Australia in 1977 and provide a market leading 24 hour convenience store and many now offering discount fuel.

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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 4 years ago

Mobil are busy with their backing now covering WAU and BJR.
As I say that Walkinshaw Andretti United have announced a new partner/naming rights sponsor for Bathurst and the rest of this season.... now the Mobil presence that was so strong in Pukekohe is reduced to a minor role.

The new partner for WAU is Winning Appliances (or in fact the Winning Group)

https://www.winningappliances.com.au/s/ ... ur-history

Winning Appliances will run on the #2 car of Scott Pye and Warren Luff whilst the #22 car of James Courtney and James Moffat will run with a livery depicting Appliances Online, an associated company.

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Kelly Racing has taken the covers off a special fan voted colour scheme that will adorn the Rick Kelly/Dale Wood Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 entry.

Rick Kelly’s Castrol Nissan will carry the colours of Russell Ingall’s 2000 ‘Silver Bullet’. Basically a re-creation of that Castrol 'Silver Bullet' livery of the old Perkins Engineering Russel Ingall Castrol Commodore VT Commodore that carried the livery originally. The recreation of the ‘Silver Bullet’ was unveiled by Kelly and Ingall in front of fans on top of Mount Panorama (the original silver bullet in the background with Ingall)


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Car(s) Currently Owned: Audi SQ5 3.0L V6 TwinTurbo
Location: Just moved 3 klms further away so now 11 klms from Albert Park, Melbourne.

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Post by Everso Biggyballies »

Matt Stone Racing bring an old livery out of the closet at Bathurst, adopting a retro SP Tools livery for the Commodore Todd Hazelwood and Jack Smith will share.

The SP Tools colours offer a throwback to the design run on Shane van Gisbergen’s Stone Brothers Racing Falcon in 2012. SP Tools backed SVG from 2008-12, at the team co-owned by Matt Stone’s father Jim.

The reference to Leesa on the front of the bonnet is the tribute the livery will pay to the late wife of SP Tools CEO Kevin Davis, Leesa, who recently passed away. She had always wanted to go for a few laps around Bathurst.

“Kevin Davis would like to use this opportunity to give Leesa one last ride around Bathurst to pay respect to her and have her name going around the Mountain,”

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