2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000

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Flag of New South Wales.svg 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
Event Information
Round 11 of 14 in the 2017 International V8 Supercars Championship
Mount Panorama street racing circuit in Australia.svg
Layout of the Mount Panorama Circuit
Date5–8 October 2017
Location Bathurst, New South Wales
Venue Mount Panorama Circuit
WeatherShowers early before clearing to overcast late.
Results
Race 1
Distance 161 laps 1000 km
Pole position Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin
DJR Team Penske 		2:03.8312
Winner Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Youlden
Erebus Motorsport 		7:11:45.5456

The 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held from October 5 to 8 2017 at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, and consisted of a 1000 kilometre race. It was the eleventh event of fourteen in the 2017 Supercars Championship and was Race 20 of the season. It was also the second event of the 2017 Enduro Cup.

DJR Team Penske driver Scott McLaughlin qualified on pole with a lap time of 2:03.8312, the fastest lap of the Mount Panorama Circuit recorded by a Supercar. [N 1]

The race was won by David Reynolds and Luke Youlden driving a Holden VF Commodore for Erebus Motorsport.

Report

Background

The event was the 60th 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 57th time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It was the 21st 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. It was the 19th time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the fifth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Will Davison and Jonathon Webb.

Scott McLaughlin entered the event as the championship leader, 84 points clear of Triple Eight Race Engineering's Jamie Whincup. McLaughlin's DJR Team Penske team-mate Fabian Coulthard was third in the points standings, 161 behind McLaughlin. In the Teams' Championship, DJR Team Penske held a 372-point lead over Triple Eight. [1] In the Enduro Cup standings, Prodrive Racing Australia team-mates Cam Waters and Richie Stanaway led the pairing of McLaughlin and Alexandre Prémat by 24 points. [2]

Entry list

Twenty-six cars were entered in the event. It was the first time since 2008 that no additional "Wildcard" entries had been received for the race. The race would see the Bathurst 1000 debut of four drivers - Super2 drivers Todd Hazelwood, Richard Muscat and Garry Jacobson and main-game debutant Alex Rullo. Rullo (at 17 years, 4 months and 23 days) would become the fourth youngest Bathurst 1000 starter after Cam Waters (17 years, 2 months and 6 days in 2011), Paul Dumbrell (17 years, 2 months and 14 days in 1999) and Bryan Sala (17 years, 2 months and 15 days in 1991).

No.DriversTeam (Sponsor)CarNo.DriversTeam (Sponsor)Car
02 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Scott Pye
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warren Luff 		Walkinshaw Racing
(Mobil 1)		 Holden Commodore VF 21 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tim Blanchard
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Todd Hazelwood 		Tim Blanchard Racing
(CoolDrive)		 Holden Commodore VF
3 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Aaren Russell
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Taz Douglas 		Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
(Plus Fitness)		 Holden Commodore VF 22 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Courtney
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Perkins 		Walkinshaw Racing
(Boost Mobile)		 Holden Commodore VF
5 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Winterbottom
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dean Canto 		Prodrive Racing Australia
(The Bottle-O)		 Ford Falcon FG X 23 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Caruso
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dean Fiore 		Nissan Motorsport
(Big4 Holiday Parks) [3] 		Nissan Altima L33
6 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cam Waters
Flag of New Zealand.svg Richie Stanaway 		Prodrive Racing Australia
(Monster Energy)		 Ford Falcon FG X 33 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garth Tander
Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Golding 		Garry Rogers Motorsport
(Wilson Security)		 Holden Commodore VF
8 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Nick Percat
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Macauley Jones 		Brad Jones Racing
(Boost Mobile) [4] 		Holden Commodore VF 34 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Moffat
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Richard Muscat 		Garry Rogers Motorsport
(Wilson Security)		 Holden Commodore VF
9 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Youlden 		Erebus Motorsport
(Penrite)		 Holden Commodore VF 55 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chaz Mostert
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Steve Owen 		Rod Nash Racing
(Supercheap Auto)		 Ford Falcon FG X
12 Flag of New Zealand.svg Fabian Coulthard
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony D'Alberto 		DJR Team Penske
(Shell V-Power)		 Ford Falcon FG X 56 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Bright
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garry Jacobson 		Britek Motorsport
(Mega Bulk Fuels)		 Ford Falcon FG X
14 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tim Slade
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ashley Walsh 1 		Brad Jones Racing
(Freightliner)		 Holden Commodore VF 62 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex Rullo
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex Davison 		Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
(Repair Management Australia)		 Holden Commodore VF
15 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rick Kelly
Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Wall 		Nissan Motorsport
(Sengled)		 Nissan Altima L33 78 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Simona de Silvestro
Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Russell 		Nissan Motorsport
(Harvey Norman)		 Nissan Altima L33
17 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin
Flag of France.svg Alexandre Prémat 		DJR Team Penske
(Shell V-Power)		 Ford Falcon FG X 88 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jamie Whincup
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Dumbrell 		Triple Eight Race Engineering
(Red Bull, Holden)		 Holden Commodore VF
18 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lee Holdsworth
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Karl Reindler 		Team 18
(Preston Hire)		 Holden Commodore VF 97 Flag of New Zealand.svg Shane van Gisbergen
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matt Campbell 		Triple Eight Race Engineering
(Red Bull, Holden)		 Holden Commodore VF
19 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Davison
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jonathon Webb 		Tekno Autosports
(Woodstock Bourbon)		 Holden Commodore VF 99 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dale Wood
Flag of New Zealand.svg Chris Pither 		Erebus Motorsport
(ADVAM, GB Galvanising)		 Holden Commodore VF
20 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Todd Kelly
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Le Brocq 		Nissan Motorsport
(carsales.com)		 Nissan Altima L33 888 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Craig Lowndes
Flag of New Zealand.svg Steven Richards 		Triple Eight Race Engineering
(Caltex)		 Holden Commodore VF
Notes

Practice

Three one-hour practice sessions were held on the Thursday prior to the race. Practice 1 and Practice 3 were open to both regular drivers and co-drivers, while Practice 2 was for co-drivers only. The first session saw Mostert set the fastest lap time of 2:06.3033. Lowndes was second fastest, six hundredths behind while Todd Kelly was sixteen hundredths further back. [5] Tim Slade caused a red flag as a result of losing control in the Esses before heavily impacting the wall on the entry to the Dipper. The session was halted again with nineteen minutes remaining after Alex Rullo stopped on Conrod Straight having found the wall at Forrest's Elbow. [6]

Results

Practice

SessionNo.DriverTeamCarTime
Thursday
Practice 155 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 2:06.3032
Practice 25 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dean Canto Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 2:06.3268
Practice 39 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:05.0931
Friday
Practice 45 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dean Canto Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 2:05.3368
Practice 517 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.1470
Saturday
Practice 69 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:04.9948
Sunday
Warm-Up18 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lee Holdsworth Team 18 Holden VF Commodore 2:06.3375
Sources: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Qualifying

Pos.No.DriverTeamCarTimeGapGrid
117 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.2253Top 10
29 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:04.4730+0.2476Top 10
355 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.5304+0.3050Top 10
46 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cam Waters Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.5958+0.3704Top 10
55 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.7857+0.5603Top 10
612 Flag of New Zealand.svg Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.8955+0.6701Top 10
797 Flag of New Zealand.svg Shane van Gisbergen Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 2:05.0224+0.7971Top 10
822 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Courtney Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 2:05.0417+0.8163Top 10
956 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Bright Britek Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 2:05.0803+0.8550Top 10
1033 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garth Tander Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:05.1093+0.8840Top 10
1188 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 2:05.1686+0.943211
1215 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rick Kelly Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 2:05.1996+0.974212
1323 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Caruso Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 2:05.2503+1.024913
148 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Nick Percat Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 2:05.2846+1.059214
1520 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Todd Kelly Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 2:05.2974+1.072015
1619 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Davison Tekno Autosports Holden VF Commodore 2:05.3840+1.158616
1718 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lee Holdsworth Team 18 Holden VF Commodore 2:05.4379+1.212517
1814 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tim Slade Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 2:05.5562+1.330818
19888 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 2:05.5625+1.337119
2002 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Scott Pye Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 2:05.6182+1.392820
2199 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dale Wood Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:05.6414+1.416021
2234 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Moffat Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:05.6430 1 +1.417622
2378 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Simona de Silvestro Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 2:05.9423+1.716923
2421 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tim Blanchard Tim Blanchard Racing Holden VF Commodore 2:05.9702+1.744924
253 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Aaren Russell Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:06.4233+2.197925
2662 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex Rullo Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:07.4800+3.254726
Source: [14]
Notes

Top 10 Shootout

Pos.No.DriverTeamCarTimeGapGrid
117 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 2:03.83121
29 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:04.2746+0.44342
35 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.4988+0.66763
455 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.5875+0.75634
597 Flag of New Zealand.svg Shane van Gisbergen Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 2:04.6688+0.83765
66 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cam Waters Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.6802+0.84906
712 Flag of New Zealand.svg Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 2:04.9693+1.13817
856 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Bright Britek Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 2:05.2277+1.39658
933 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garth Tander Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 2:05.3261+1.49499
1022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Courtney Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 2:05.4890+1.657810
Source: [15]

Race 20

Pos.No.DriverTeamCarLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
19 Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Reynolds
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Youlden 		Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 1617:11:45.54562300
202 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Scott Pye
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warren Luff 		Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 161+3.899520276
312 Flag of New Zealand.svg Fabian Coulthard
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony D'Alberto 		DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 161+4.59137258
499 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dale Wood
Flag of New Zealand.svg Chris Pither 		Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 161+6.345021240
597 Flag of New Zealand.svg Shane van Gisbergen
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matt Campbell 		Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 161+10.62605222
623 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Caruso
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dean Fiore 		Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 161+13.687413204
720 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Todd Kelly
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Le Brocq 		Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 161+24.300415192
856 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Bright
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garry Jacobson 		Britek Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 161+28.16478180
914 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tim Slade
Flag of New Zealand.svg Andre Heimgartner 		Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 161+29.627618168
1055 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chaz Mostert
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Steve Owen 		Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 161+59.30604156
11888 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Craig Lowndes
Flag of New Zealand.svg Steven Richards 		Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 160+1 Lap19144
1221 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tim Blanchard
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Todd Hazelwood 		Tim Blanchard Racing Holden VF Commodore 160+1 Lap24138
1315 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rick Kelly
Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Wall 		Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 159+2 Laps12132
1419 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Davison
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jonathon Webb 		Tekno Autosports Holden VF Commodore 159+2 Laps16126
1562 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex Rullo
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex Davison 		Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 159+2 Laps26120
166 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cam Waters
Flag of New Zealand.svg Richie Stanaway 		Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 159+2 Laps6114
173 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Aaren Russell
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Taz Douglas 		Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 154+7 Laps25108
1833 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garth Tander
Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Golding 		Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 152+9 Laps9102
1922 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Courtney
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Perkins 		Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 147+14 Laps1096
2088 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jamie Whincup
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Dumbrell 		Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 124+37 Laps1190
Ret8 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Nick Percat
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Macauley Jones 		Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 160Accident14
Ret5 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Winterbottom
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dean Canto 		Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 159Accident3
Ret78 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Simona de Silvestro
Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Russell 		Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 152Accident23
Ret34 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Moffat
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Richard Muscat 		Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 141Accident22
Ret18 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lee Holdsworth
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Karl Reindler 		Team 18 Holden VF Commodore 76Engine17
Ret17 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin
Flag of France.svg Alexandre Prémat 		DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 74Engine1
Source: [16]

Standings after the event

Broadcast

The event telecast was produced by Supercars Media and carried domestically by Fox Sports Australia (via Fox Sports 506), a paid service which covered all sessions including support categories, and Network 10 (via free-to-air channels 10 and 10 Bold), which covered select sessions from midday Friday onwards. The coverage won a Logie in 2018 for Most Outstanding Sports Coverage. [17]

Fox SportsNetwork 10
Host: Jessica Yates, Russell Ingall
Booth: Neil Crompton, Mark Skaife
Pit-lane: Riana Crehan, Greg Murphy, Greg Rust 		Presenters: Aaron Noonan, Matthew White
Pundits: Rick Kelly, Mark Larkham
Roving: Scott MacKinnon, Kate Peck

Notes

  1. ↑ David Reynolds is recognised as holding the official lap record for Supercars as his time of 2:06.2769 was set during a race.

References

  1. ↑ "Coates Hire Leaderboard". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Race 19". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "Bathurst 1000: BIG4 Holiday Parks to sponsor Michael Caruso and Dean Fiore's No. 23 Nissan". Fox Sports Australia. 2 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Percat/Jones get Boost backing for Bathurst". Supercars Championship. 3 October 2017.
  5. ↑ Howard, Tom (5 October 2017). "Mostert fastest as Slade, Rullo crash in Practice 1". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Slade crashes out of opening practice". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Practice 1". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  8. ↑ [ dead link ]
  9. ↑ "Practice 3". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  10. ↑ [ dead link ]
  11. ↑ "Practice 5". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  12. ↑ "Practice 6". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  13. ↑ "Warm up". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "ARMOR ALL Qualifying". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  15. ↑ "ARMOR ALL Top 10 Shootout". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  16. ↑ "Race 20 - Supercars". Supercars.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "Bathurst coverage takes out Logie Award". Supercars Championship. 1 July 2018.
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