Bathurst 1000: How to watch, every team, driver and the full grid
The AFL and NRL grand finals are over, which means that it’s time for Supercars’ biggest event of the year – the Bathurst 1000. Here is your guide to 2023’s great race.
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The biggest race of the Supercars calendar is upon us – the first Bathurst 1000 of the new Gen3 era.
After Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander gave Holden a fitting farewell in the famous Lion’s last dance at Mount Panorama, the GM Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang will now do battle in the Great Race.
Van Gisbergen has a new co-driver alongside him for 2023 – fellow Kiwi Richie Stanaway – in what will be the defending champion’s last Bathurst 1000 as a full-time driver before his switch to NASCAR in 2024.
Already a two-time Bathurst 1000 winner, can SvG make it three before he heads Stateside?
Five-time Bathurst 1000 champion Tander, who partnered van Gisbergen for both of his Bathurst wins, will team up with David Reynolds at Grove Racing for this year’s race.
This year’s race marks the 60th anniversary of the Bathurst 1000 with legends of the sport to be honoured across the weekend.
One of those, Triple Eight veteran Craig Lowndes, will bring up his own significant milestone – his 30th Bathurst 1000 race start.
Lowndes will team with Zane Goddard in a Supercheap Auto wildcard.
Erebus Motorsport’s Brodie Kostecki holds a 155-point lead heading into the race and is on the hunt for a maiden Bathurst win after his second-place finish at Sandown.
Swiss star Simona de Silvestro represents the international contingent in the race – in a Dick Johnson Racing wildcard alongside young gun Kai Allen – along with French Porsche factory driver Kevin Estre, who is teamed with Grove Racing rookie Matt Payne.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Great Race this week.
THE BATHURST 1000 GRID
TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING/RED BULL AMPOL RACING
Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup
Shane van Gisbergen/Richie Stanaway
DICK JOHNSON RACING/SHELL V-POWER RACING TEAM
Anton De Pasquale/ Tony D’Alberto
Will Davison/ Alex Davison
TICKFORD RACING
James Courtney/Zak Best
Cam Waters/James Moffat
Thomas Randle/Garry Jacobson
Declan Fraser/Tyler Everingham
WALKINSHAW ANDRETTI UNITED
Nick Percat/Fabian Coulthard
Chaz Mostert/ Lee Holdsworth
EREBUS MOTORSPORT/COCA-COLA RACING
Will Brown/Jack Perkins
Brodie Kostecki/David Russell
TEAM 18
Mark Winterbottom/Michael Caruso
Scott Pye/ Warren Luff
BLANCHARD RACING TEAM/COOLDRIVE RACING
Todd Hazelwood/Tim Blanchard
GROVE RACING/PENRITE RACING
David Reynolds/Garth Tander
Matt Payne/Kevin Estre
BRAD JONES RACING
Andre Heimgartner/Dale Wood
Bryce Fullwood/Dean Fiore
Macauley Jones/Jordan Boys
Jack Smith/Jaxon Evans
PREMIAIR RACING
Tim Slade/Jonathon Webb
James Golding/Dylan O’Keeffe
MATT STONE RACING
Jack Le Brocq/Jayden Ojeda
Cameron Hill/Jaylyn Robotham
TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING (WILDCARD)
Craig Lowndes/Zane Goddard
BLANCHARD RACING TEAM (WILDCARD)
Jake Kostecki/Aaron Love
DICK JOHNSON RACING/SHELL V-POWER RACING TEAM (WILDCARD)
Simona de Silvestro/Kai Allen
THE STORY LAST YEAR
1. Shane van Gisbergen/Garth Tander (Triple Eight Race Engineering)
2. Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Walkinshaw Andretti United)
3. Cameron Waters/James Moffat (Tickford Racing)
Van Gisbergen became a dual Bathurst 1000 champion and Tander a five-time winner after the pair delivered Holden the ultimate farewell in the famous Red Lion’s final dance around Mount Panorama. After early carnage in a chaotic start to the Great Race, van Gisbergen again underlined his brilliance to hold off a fierce challenge from defending Bathurst 1000 champion Chaz Mostert in a thrilling finish to the endurance classic. Van Gisbergen continued his year of dominance to claim a record-breaking 19th season win – passing Scott McLaughlin’s 2019 benchmark – to win in the biggest race of the year. He overcame an earlier five-second penalty for an unsafe pit release to hold out Mostert by just one second at the finish. Van Gisbergen claimed his second win in the Great Race ahead of Mostert and Tickford Racing’s pole sitter Cam Waters, whose bid for a breakthrough Bathurst crown again fell short. The New Zealand star’s win came the day after the top-10 shootout had to be called off due to torrential rain.
2023 SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
1. Brodie Kostecki (Erebus Motorsport/Chevrolet Camaro) 2171
2. Shane van Gisbergen (Triple Eight/Chevrolet Camaro) 2016
3. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight/Chevrolet Camaro) 1967
4. Will Brown (Erebus Motorsport/Chevrolet Camaro) 1877
5. Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing/Chevrolet Camaro) 1680
HOW TO WATCH
Every session of the Bathurst 1000 will be broadcast live on Fox Sports and streamed on Kayo.
Fox Sports and Kayo will have more than 40 hours of live coverage of this year’s event at Mount Panorama for the 60th anniversary.
There will be three brand new Fox Sports specials, including a Bathurst preview; Fox Theatre: 2022 Bathurst and Beyond the Chase – a one-hour special looking back at the 2014 Bathurst 1000.
Classic races will also be featured, including the top-10 of all-time; the top-five fast finishes and 20 greatest laps, plus specials looking back at legends of the sport.
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