3.75 million witness epic battle

Australia's great race is getting even greater after the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 delivered staggering television ratings during one of the most epic battles in history.

Preliminary figures show the classic V8 Supercars battle at Mount Panorama had Australians glued to their screens throughout the day to deliver massive peak and average viewing audiences.

Pepsi Max Crew's Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris were part of day full of unforgettable moments.

The race delivered a peak metropolitan and regional audience of 3.775 million and a stunning average audience of 2.186 million across metropolitan and regional markets.

The peak metropolitan audience increased by 25 per cent on 2013, the average metropolitan audience by eight per cent and the metro/regional by 11 per cent.

The national peak metropolitan and regional audience grew by 26 per cent year on year.

The weekend also attracted the second biggest crowd in the history of Australia's famous race.

A crowd of 195,261 headed to Mount Panorama across the four days of the event, the biggest attendance only behind the 50 Year Anniversary celebrations of 2012.

The attendance was up by 6.4 per cent on last year and exceeded the 193,647 people that attended the 2006 event just one month after the passing of Peter Brock.