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.

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.

Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander celebrate on the podium after winning the 2022 Bathurst 1000. Picture: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images

Already a two-time Bathurst 1000 winner, can SvG make it three before he heads Stateside?

Triple Eight young gun Broc Feeney and his team boss Jamie Whincup will be one of the top combinations to beat after their win in the Sandown 500.

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.

Jamie Whincup and Broc Feeney celebrate after winning the Penrite Oil Sandown 500. Picture: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images

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

2021 Bathurst 1000 winners Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth will be reunited at Walkinshaw Andretti United for this year’s race at Mount Panorama. Picture: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images

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

Grove Racing's David Reynolds and Garth Tander. Picture: Supplied.

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

Zane Goddard will team-up with Craig Lowndes for this year's Supercars endurance races in a Triple Eight wildcard. Picture: Supplied

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.

Cameron Waters and James Moffat celebrate reaching the podium at the 2022 Bathurst 1000. Picture: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images

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

Erebus Motorsport’s Brodie Kostecki holds a 155-point lead in the Supercars championship heading into the Bathurst 1000. Picture: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images

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.

Originally published as Bathurst 1000: How to watch, every team, driver and the full grid