Fast Facts: 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000
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NEXT RACE: October 6-9, Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit - Bathurst, NSW
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1) This year is the 62nd running of the event now known as the Repco Auto Bathurst 1000. First held at Bathurst in 1963 as the Armstrong 500, ‘The Great Race’ has featured at Mount Panorama ever since. There were two races held in 1997 and 1998; both races from those years are counted in event history.
2) Dick Johnson Racing will reach a special milestone at Mount Panorama this year as it becomes the first team to start 1000 ATCC/Supercars Championship races. The team debuted in the ATCC at Symmons Plains in 1981 and has since competed in every championship race it was eligible to start, including the period of 2015 to 2020 when the team was known as DJR Team Penske.
3) Craig Lowndes will become the first driver in ATCC/Supercars Championship history to make 300 round starts when practice gets underway at Mount Panorama. Come race day, a total of 26 years and 255 days will have passed since he made his championship debut at what was then known as Eastern Creek Raceway for the opening round of the 1996 season – which he won.
4) David Reynolds will become the 20th driver to reach 400 ATCC/Supercars Championship race starts at the Repco Bathurst 1000. The 2017 ‘Great Race’ winner made his championship debut at the 2007 Sandown 500 alongside Cameron McConville at PWR Racing.
5) A total of 63 drivers have won ‘The Great Race’ across its history. 11 past winners are on the grid for this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000: Craig Lowndes (7), Greg Murphy (4), Jamie Whincup (4), Garth Tander (4), Will Davison (2), Chaz Mostert (2), Nick Percat (1), Mark Winterbottom (1), David Reynolds (1), Shane van Gisbergen (1), Lee Holdsworth (1).
6) The closest Bathurst race-winning margin between competing cars (as opposed to teammates lining up for a form finish) is 0.1434-seconds between Will Davison/Jonathon Webb and Shane van Gisbergen/Alex Premat in 2016.
7) One of the longer standing records at Mount Panorama is the smallest margin between the cars that qualified first and second on the grid. Steven Richards pipped Jason Bright to pole position for the 2004 race by just 0.0012-seconds. The pole-winning margin has been less than one tenth of a second on 9 occasions: 1986, 1997 2L, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018.
8) After just one rookie took part in last year’s race, the crop of 2022 ‘Great Race’ debutants will total seven: Jaxon Evans, Matt Payne, Cameron Hill, Aaron Seton, Matt Chahda, Jaylyn Robotham and Declan Fraser.
9) Broc Feeney, at 19 years of age, has been the youngest driver on the grid throughout his rookie full-time season in the Repco Supercars Championship, but he loses that mantle for the Repco Bathurst 1000. Jaylyn Robotham will also be 19 years of age when he makes his ‘Great Race’ debut this year, but he is three days younger than Feeney.
10) Since its introduction in 1987, the Repco Bathurst 1000 has run without intervention from the BP Ultimate Safety Car on only two occasions: 1989 and 1991. The greatest number of Safety Car periods is 13 in the 2000 race, while the greatest number of laps affected by the Safety Car is 45 of the 161 laps in the 2006 race.
