The 2022 Bathurst 1000 (known as the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 for commercial reasons) will be a motor racing event for Supercars held on the week of 6 to 9 October 2022. It will host the eleventh round of the 2022 Supercars Championship. It will be held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia and will feature a single 1000 kilometre race.
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Background
The event will be the 65th running of the Bathurst 1000, which was first held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in 1960 as a 500-mile race for Australian-made standard production sedans, and will mark the 62nd time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It will be the 26th running of the Australian 1000 race, which was first held after the organisational split between the Australian Racing Drivers Club and V8 Supercars Australia that saw two "Bathurst 1000" races contested in both 1997 and 1998.
It will also be the final time that Holden will participate in the Bathurst 1000, who made their debut in the 1961 Armstrong 500 event at Phillip Island, after General Motors announced the retirement of the brand in 2020.[1]
Entry list
Twenty-nine cars will enter the event - 20 Holden Commodores and nine Ford Mustangs, making it the biggest grid since 2013. In addition to the 25 regular entries, four wildcard entries will be entered, making it the largest amount of wildcard entrants since it began in 2009. One from Anderson Motorsport, for two yet to be announced drivers, one from Erebus Motorsport, for Greg Murphy and Richie Stanaway, one from Matt Chahda Motorsport, for Matt Chahda and Jaylan Robotham, and one from Triple Eight Race Engineering, for Craig Lowndes and Declan Fraser.
So far, six drivers will make their Bathurst 1000 debut, with 2022 Bathurst 6 Hour race winner and Super2 driver Cameron Hill, as well as fellow Super2 drivers Matt Chahda, Declan Fraser, Matthew Payne, Jaylyn Robotham and Aaron Seton. For Aaron, he will become the first third generation driver to make a Bathurst 1000 appearance, after his father Glenn Seton and his grandfather, 1965 Armstrong 500 race winner, Barry Seton.
Teams Anderson Motorsport, Grove Racing, Matt Chahda Motorsport and PremiAir Racing will make their debut in the Bathurst 1000. With Anderson Motorsport a Super3 Series team, Grove Racing a continuation of Kelly Racing, Matt Chahda Motorsport a Super2 Series team and PremiAir Racing an all new team, which took over Team Sydney.
Entries with a grey background are wildcard entries which do not compete in the full championship season.
Notes
References
- ^ Sutton, Malcolm (18 February 2020). "Holden vs Ford rivalry delivered a 'death' blow at Supercars Adelaide 500 after Holden exit". abc.net.au. ABC News. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ Pavey, James (2022-04-30). "Erebus Motorsport confirms all Kiwi Bathurst Wildcard". Supercars Championship.
- ^ Triple Eight confirms Lowndes/Fraser wildcard Speedcafe 5 June 2022
- ^ O'Brian, Connor (5 July 2022). "Bathurst 1000 wildcard hopeful denied Superlicence". Speedcafe.com.
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