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Well I thought I would start a small thread about this car race in Australia. While this is a US based forum some of the points that I wish to raise will apply to the rest of the world,
Firstly the Bathurst 1000 is a car race that has been held 64 times commencing in 1960 and is Australia’s number one car racing event. As the name suggests the race is 1000km long which is 161 laps,
The whole event is held over 3 days with the Sunday being the main race. The race has mainly been for cars that that are either Group E, Group
A touring cars and then V8 Super cars. During the 60’s right through to the 90’s there were homologation rules where to enter a car it had to be available for sale to the public with at least 500 sales. This idea really caught the imagination of the Australian car enthusiast community and the winning car on Sunday would initiate huge sales of the car on the Monday following the race,
Over the years there has been entries from Holden, Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota, Volvo, Chevrolet, Rover, Renault, BMW and Mitsubishi.
The event is held in a New South Wales country town called Bathurst which is about 3hours inland west of Sydney. It’s a treacherous and narrow road track that runs up Mount Panorama with sharp corners then hits a spot called Skyline, aptly named because when you get to the top that’s all you see. It then snakes down the hill to a long straight called Conrod Straight where cars will hit around 280km before they have to get on the brakes and navigate a dogleg and avoid the sand trap before they turn into the start:finish pitt lane.
As many of you know Australia no long makes cars and currently there are only two cars involved, the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro. A few years ago there were a few V8 Nissan Altimas ( they were probably 450gt’s RWD cars ). Where this all gets a bit interesting is that in the US the Camaro looks to be finishing up and Ford US is mainly selling Mustangs and Rangers. With many manufacturers moving to EV’s people are a bit uncertain as to how this will play out for Motorsport and their many fans. Porsche has been working on synthetic fuel options and I believe the classic car community is also watching to see what will happen next,
Today there are currently 200 k people at the event and many Australians are watching on channel 7. Interested to hearing what will happen in the US and other countries moving forward with touring car racing and what makes and models may be used.
Firstly the Bathurst 1000 is a car race that has been held 64 times commencing in 1960 and is Australia’s number one car racing event. As the name suggests the race is 1000km long which is 161 laps,
The whole event is held over 3 days with the Sunday being the main race. The race has mainly been for cars that that are either Group E, Group
A touring cars and then V8 Super cars. During the 60’s right through to the 90’s there were homologation rules where to enter a car it had to be available for sale to the public with at least 500 sales. This idea really caught the imagination of the Australian car enthusiast community and the winning car on Sunday would initiate huge sales of the car on the Monday following the race,
Over the years there has been entries from Holden, Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota, Volvo, Chevrolet, Rover, Renault, BMW and Mitsubishi.
The event is held in a New South Wales country town called Bathurst which is about 3hours inland west of Sydney. It’s a treacherous and narrow road track that runs up Mount Panorama with sharp corners then hits a spot called Skyline, aptly named because when you get to the top that’s all you see. It then snakes down the hill to a long straight called Conrod Straight where cars will hit around 280km before they have to get on the brakes and navigate a dogleg and avoid the sand trap before they turn into the start:finish pitt lane.
As many of you know Australia no long makes cars and currently there are only two cars involved, the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro. A few years ago there were a few V8 Nissan Altimas ( they were probably 450gt’s RWD cars ). Where this all gets a bit interesting is that in the US the Camaro looks to be finishing up and Ford US is mainly selling Mustangs and Rangers. With many manufacturers moving to EV’s people are a bit uncertain as to how this will play out for Motorsport and their many fans. Porsche has been working on synthetic fuel options and I believe the classic car community is also watching to see what will happen next,
Today there are currently 200 k people at the event and many Australians are watching on channel 7. Interested to hearing what will happen in the US and other countries moving forward with touring car racing and what makes and models may be used.
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