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Tag Archive | "Bathurst 1000"
HOLDEN WIN BATHURST AGAIN
Holden Racing Team drivers Garth Tander and rookie Nick Percat have taken a thrilling win in the 2011 Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. Tander held off the challenge of a fast finishing Craig Lowndes to win by less than a second. With only one lap remaining Lowndes, last years race winner, was right on the tail of [...]
Continue reading...TANDER QUICKEST ON THE MOUNTAIN AS HOLDWORTH IS PENALISED
Friday, October 7, 2011
Holden Racing Team driver Garth Tander has set the pace for this weekend's Bathurst 1000 with fastest time in Friday's final Qualifying session. Tander will be the final runner in Saturday's single flying lap shootout for the top ten after taking his HRT Commodore around the Mountain in 2:07:664. Mark Winterbottom gave Ford fans hope by setting the day's second quickest time with a 2:07:718. The 2010 pole sitter knows that while there is great prestige and some handy prize money for pole, it counts for little come Sunday. "I'd love to be on pole position and it is a big thing, so we'll try and put it on pole and try and lead the race on Sunday and see how we go." Series leader Jamie Whincup placed his car third after hard work from his crew after he put the car into the wall in morning practice. Fourth place went to David Reynolds setting the time on the final lap of qualifying. "I threw it on the line, chucked it down the hill, stomped out of it on Conrod and ended up P4." said an emotional Reynolds.
Continue reading...RAIN DAMPENS BATHURST PRACTICE
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thursday's practice session at a wet Mount Panorama has been cancelled due to a dispute over wet weather tyres. Two different batches of the control Dunlop tyres are present at the track, leading to concerns by some teams that one batch could be better than another, giving the teams that use them an unfair advantage. According to the website Speedcafe.com, unattributed "Paddock speculation" is suggesting that the newer of the two batches could prove up to four seconds per lap faster than the older tyres. Teams have now agreed to new regulations that will see them restricted to using just five sets of wet weather tyres in the race. The original supplementary race regulations stated that an unlimited amount of wet tyres could be used. Weather Reports for the weekend indicate wet and cold conditions will continue with heavy overnight fog and the chance of afternoon storms over the weekend.
Continue reading...AUDI CONFIRM BATHURST ENTRY: Lowndes joins the squad
Monday, December 20, 2010
Audi have confirmed their entry in next year's Bathurst 12 hour race wit two R8 LMS cars from the Team Joest stable. As reported first by In Pit Lane last month, former Australian GT champion and regular Audi driver Mark Eddy will drive one of the cars and will be joined by Bathurst 1000 winner Craig Lowndes and fellow V8 supercar driver Warren Luff. Also confirmed is an all International line up headed by Hong Kong-based World Touring Car Championship driver Darryl O’Young, German sportscar driver Marc Basseng, and 21-year-old 2009 FIA GT3 European Champion Christopher Heis. The Audi will however find itself hamstrung by ridiculous "parity" penalties designed to appease local GT competitors in older 2009 spec cars. Under the rules the Audi and any other current spec GT3 cars will be forced to pit a minimum of 12 times compared with just nine for AGT regulars. A 50 kg weight penalty will also apply.
Continue reading...In Pit Lane December 7 Sir Stirling Moss
Sunday, December 19, 2010
The legendary Sir Stirling Moss was in Melbourne for the first ever Motorclassica at the Royal Exhibition Building. Sir Stirling talks about his career, Fangio, Le Mans and his return to racing with Sir Jack Brabham at Bathurst. Oh, and CRUMPET!
Continue reading...BRIGHT START AT BATHURST AS LOWNDES BEATS THE PERFECT LAP
Friday, October 8, 2010
It was the stuff of which motor racing legends are made, Greg Murphy's perfect lap at Bathurst in 2003. Despite all the so-called advances in race car preparation, technology and tyres no one could top that remarkable lap. Until Today. Craig Lowndes propelled himself into the ranks of Mountain legends with a stunning two minutes, 06.8012 seconds lap to beat Murphy's time of 2:06.8594. "Everyone's been talking about it for a long time and finally now we've eclipsed it," Lowndes said. "It's great. Is there any more? You always say yes, but to actually go and do it is another thing." Murphy said he was surprised it had taken this long for his record to be broken but he was also quick to point out that it takes nothing away from his pole winning lap. "I did it seven years ago and I did it when I was 1.1 seconds quicker than the next guy when we'd done 2:07s for the first time on the Friday, that's why that's special.
Continue reading...KELLY BROTHERS GET WOOD
Friday, August 20, 2010
Victorian driver Dale Wood will complete the Jack Daniel’s Racing line-up for the upcoming V8 Supercar endurance events at Phillip Island and Bathurst. Wood has been a part of Kelly Racing right from the initial launch of the team in March last year, competing in the first five events of the 2009 season in the [...]
Continue reading...HOLDEN TURNS THE MOUNTAIN RED AS HRT WINS BATHURST
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Holden have ended a three year drought at the famous Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama with a sweep of the podium led by Garth Tander & Will Davison. Tander and Davison started from pole but it was far from an all the way win with several challenges through the day. The victory was the second on the mountain for Tander but the first for Davison, the grandson of former multiple Australian Grand Prix winner Lex Davison and the cousin of 2009 Indy lights series runner up James. Earlier it had looked like a dream win for Gary Rogers Motorsport pair David Besnard and Greg Ritter.
Continue reading...A MINI YOU SAID
Friday, October 3, 2008
It may seem like a huge step down from a 750 BHP V8 powered NASCAR to a four cylinder 200 BHP Mini but when you're taking on one of the World's most challenging circuits it'll will be no walk in the park for American NASCAR star Boris Said. Said will join double British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal and New Zealand Mini challenge Champion Brent Collins, to spearhead an international all star cast for the Mini challenge at Bathurst next on October 10 -12. Said, the winner of the Nurburgring 24 hours and a semi regular on the NASCAR scene has never raced at Bathurst but he is renowned as a road course specialist in the United States where he won the 1997 & '98 Daytona 24 hour race as well as the 12 hour race at Sebring.
Continue reading...STUNT GONE WRONG, DENYER OUT OF BATHURST
Friday, September 19, 2008
A back injury suffered while driving a “Monster” Truck will keep well known TV star and part time V8 Supercar driver Grant Denyer out of next months Bathurst 1000. Ford Rising Stars Racing Team owner Jim Morton released a statement today September 19 announcing Denyer's withdrawal from the race.
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