The 2024 Bathurst 1000 (known commercially as the 2024 Repco Bathurst 1000 for commercial reasons) is an upcoming motor racing event for Supercars held on the week of 10 to 13 October 2024. It will host the tenth round of the 2024 Supercars Championship and will take place at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, featuring a single race of 1000 kilometres.
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Round 10 of 12 in the 2024 Supercars Championship | ||||||||
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Date | October 10-13 2024 | |||||||
Location | Bathurst, New South Wales | |||||||
Venue | Mount Panorama Circuit | |||||||
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The event will be the 67th 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 64th time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It will be the 28th running of the "Australia 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.
Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway are the defending race winners, but will not compete together. Van Gisbergen has moved to the United States to race in NASCAR, while Stanaway moved to Grove Racing. [1] [2]
So far, twenty-six cars are expected to enter the event - 16 Chevrolet Camaros and 10 Ford Mustangs. In addition to the twenty-four regular-season entries, two "wildcard" entrants are expected to join the field - one from Triple Eight Race Engineering, and the other from Super2 team Matt Chahda Motorsport making their second appearance after 2022. [3]
So far, main-gamer Ryan Wood and Super2 Series drivers Aaron Cameron, Cameron Crick (son of four-time Bathurst 1000 starter Rodney Crick), Cameron McLeod (grandson of 1987 race winner Peter McLeod), Cooper Murray and 2022 Super3 Series Champion Bradley Vaughan will make their debut in the Bathurst 1000.
Triple Eight Race Engineering, branded as Red Bull Ampol Racing in Supercars, is an Australian motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship. The team has been the only Brisbane-based V8 Supercar team since its formation, originally taking over and operating out of the former Briggs Motor Sport workshop in Bowen Hills during the 2003 season before moving to Banyo in 2009. The team has won the Supercars drivers' championship ten times, the teams' championship eleven times and the Bathurst 1000 ten times.
Shane Robert van Gisbergen, also known by his initials SVG, is a New Zealand professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 97 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing in partnership with Trackhouse Racing, part-time in the popular NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 16 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Kaulig Racing and the No. 91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Trackhouse Racing, and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 28 Chevrolet SS for Pinnacle Racing Group. He is known for his time racing in the Supercars Championship, last driving the No. 97 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 car for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He is a three-time Supercars Champion, winning driver's titles in 2016, 2021, and 2022. With a total of 80 wins and 46 pole positions, van Gisbergen is 4th on the all-time wins list in the Supercars Championship. He has won the Bathurst 1000 three times, in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Richard Stanaway is a racing car driver from New Zealand. He currently competes full-time in the Supercars Championship, driving the No. 26 Ford Mustang GT for Grove Racing.
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