FAST FACTS ABOUT THE BATHURST 1000 ENDURANCE RACE

* Australian motorsport’s centrepiece is a 161-lap, 1000km race annually run at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama Circuit in NSW.

* A lap is 6.213km long, with 23 turns. Average speed is 179km/h.

* Originally constructed as a scenic tourist drive and used as a public road on non-race weekends, Mount Panorama has hosted races every year since 1963.

* Peter Brock won the Bathurst 1000 nine times (1972, ’75, ’78, ’79, ’80, ’82, ’83, ’84, ’87), making him the race’s most successful driver.

* Brock won the Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000 and championship in the same year twice (1978; ‘1980). Only Craig Lowndes has managed to complete that feat since, doing so in 1996.

* Winners of the race are awarded the Peter Brock Trophy after the Holden icon died in a racing accident in 2006.

* Will Davison (2009, ’16) and Chaz Mostert (2014, ’21) have the most race wins (two) in the current 24-strong grid.

* Three-time champion Shane van Gisbergen is the reigning Bathurst 1000 winner. He has won the race three times (2020, ’22, ’23).

* Nick Percat (2011), Mark Winterbottom (2013), David Reynolds (2017) and Richie Stanaway (2023) are drivers in the current grid who have won the Bathurst 1000 once.

* Triple Eight Race Engineering is the team with most wins at Bathurst: 10 race victories.

Joanna Guelas
(Australian Associated Press)