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Van Gisbergen/Tander send Holden off in style with Bathurst 1000 win

Supercars Championship

Van Gisbergen/Tander send Holden off in style with Bathurst 1000 win

By Phil Branagan - Oct 9, 2022, 6:14 AM ET

A year ago Chaz Mostert led Shane van Gisbergen late in the day and they battled for the win in the Bathurst 1000. Mostert held track position and had a slight edge in car speed – and he and van Gisbergen both knew it.In 2022 the positions were reversed. Van...

Rain halts Bathurst shootout; Waters will start from pole

Supercars Championship

Rain halts Bathurst shootout; Waters will start from pole

By Phil Branagan - Oct 8, 2022, 4:28 AM ET

Ford driver Cameron Waters will start the Bathurst 1000 from pole position after wild weather forced the cancellation of Saturday's top 10 Shootout.For the first time in 40 years, the traditional single-car session was cancelled after torrential rain lashed the 3.85 mile Mount Panorama Saturday afternoon, 60 minutes of heavy...

Wet suits Waters fine in Bathurst 1000 qualifying

Supercars Championship

Wet suits Waters fine in Bathurst 1000 qualifying

By Phil Branagan - Oct 7, 2022, 9:26 AM ET

Cameron Waters has struck the first blow for this weekend's Bathurst 1000 Supercars race by topping the qualifying times at Mount Panorama on Friday.The appropriately named Waters emerged from a wet and slippery session to set a time of 2m23.6168s in the Monster Energy/Tickford Ford Mustang that he will share...

Mostert and Holdsworth win Bathurst 1000

International Racing

Mostert and Holdsworth win Bathurst 1000

By Phil Branagan - Dec 5, 2021, 9:15 AM ET

In a race that featured plenty of drama, after 625 hard-fought miles the fastest drivers, in the fastest car, won the Repco Bathurst 1000.After Chaz Mostert qualified on pole position, co-driver Lee Holdsworth started the WAU/Appliances Online Holden Commodore and took less than a lap to seize the lead and...

Mostert blazes to Bathurst 1000 pole in qualifying shootout

International Racing

Mostert blazes to Bathurst 1000 pole in qualifying shootout

By Phil Branagan - Dec 4, 2021, 9:58 AM ET

Two years ago Chaz Mostert scored his first pole at Mount Panorama. His second was much, much better.In 2019 Mostert started the Bathurst 1000 second alongside Scott McLaughlin, who had shattered the lap record. But weeks after the session McLaughlin’s motor was found be in breach of the technical regulations,...

Brown tops Bathurst 1000 qualifying for Erebus

International Racing

Brown tops Bathurst 1000 qualifying for Erebus

By Phil Branagan - Dec 3, 2021, 10:13 AM ET

Will Brown capped a breakthough Supercars season by taking provision pole Friday for the Bathurst 1000 at Australia's Mount Panorama circuit.In his first season as a full-time Supercars driver, Brown scored his first pole and win at Sydney Motorsport Park last month, but a steady buildup during practice did not...

Tander, van Gisbergen charge to Bathurst 1000 win

International Racing

Tander, van Gisbergen charge to Bathurst 1000 win

By Phil Branagan - Oct 18, 2020, 8:22 AM ET

In more than a decade of racing at Bathurst, Shane van Gisbergen had done nearly everything -- he has won the 12 Hour race for GT3 cars, taken pole position for that race and the 1000km Supercars race and finished on the podium for that race. But not win it.Twice...

Waters dominates Bathurst pole Shootout

International Racing

Waters dominates Bathurst pole Shootout

By Phil Branagan - Oct 17, 2020, 8:29 AM ET

After a qualifying session that saw cars covered by hundredths of a second, few would have expected anything other than a similar margin to determine who would start from pole position after Bathurst’s one-lap Top 10 Shootout.How wrong we all were.Cam Waters was in a class of his own in...

INSIGHT: Supercar teams climbed a mountain just to get to Bathurst

International Racing

INSIGHT: Supercar teams climbed a mountain just to get to Bathurst

By Phil Branagan - Oct 16, 2020, 8:02 PM ET

Usually, when the Bathurst 1000 Supercars race finishes some time after 5 p.m., there is a stark contrast between the teams. One group, the winners, will be celebrating, hugging and backslapping as their drivers stand on the top step of the podium. The rest will, mostly, console each other for...

Holdsworth tops Bathurst qualifying for Ford

International Racing

Holdsworth tops Bathurst qualifying for Ford

By Phil Branagan - Oct 16, 2020, 8:05 AM ET

A year ago it would not be unfair to say that Lee Holdsworth was a far from happy man after qualifying for the Bathurst 1000. The veteran driver clearly struggled in the wet timed session and would start the 2019 'Great Race' from 19th grid position. He went on to...

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