Where Mostert's flyer stacks up in shootout records

Chaz Mostert secured his place in history on Saturday with the fastest Supercar lap of Mount Panorama.

Mostert and Lee Holdsworth will launch from pole position for Sunday’s Repco Bathurst 1000.

Mostert, the 2014 winner and 2019 pole-sitter, clocked a 2:03.373s to reset the practice/qualifying lap record set by Scott McLaughlin in 2019.

For the sixth time in the last eight shootouts in Bathurst, the pole-winning time has been lowered.

Mostert’s effort was the 19th instance in 35 shootouts since 1987 to feature a faster pole time.

Rain affected the shootout pole times in 1981, 2000 and 2015.

Existing shootout records also stood in 1992, 1993, 2000, 2001, between 2004 and 2013, 2015 and 2018.

The 1987 event featured the updated and current iteration of Mount Panorama following the installation of The Chase.

In 1987, German ace Klaus Ludwig clocked a 2:16.969s. A year later, Dick Johnson went half a second quicker - and so it went.

It’s hard to believe that Mostert wiped a staggering 13.626s from Ludwig’s pole-winning time in 1987, some five years before Mostert was born.

While Mostert wasn’t the first driver to clock a 2:03s lap - five drivers did so in Saturday’s shootout - he stands alone as the quickest ever.

McLaughlin was first into the ’threes’ in 2017, some 14 years after Greg Murphy recorded his iconic ’six’ in 2003.

Murphy’s ‘Lap of the Gods’ pole time would go unbeaten in a shootout until Shane van Gisbergen benefited from a resurfaced track to go 0.5s quicker.

Mark Skaife claimed five Great Race poles; he reset the pole-winning shootout time on four occasions.

Craig Lowndes scored pole in 1995 as a 21-year-old.

With provisional pole man Will Brown missing out - and later being disqualified - on Saturday, Lowndes and McLaughlin remain the top two youngest Bathurst pole winners.

Mostert and Holdsworth have a fast car at their disposal; they also topped four of the six practice sessions.

However, history is against them; in 63 previous Great Races, just 12 times has the winner started from first on the grid.

Can Mostert and Holdsworth buck the trend on Sunday?

The Repco Bathurst 1000 will conclude the 2021 season, with the 161-lap race to commence at 12:15pm AEDT on Sunday.

Supercars will return to the track on Sunday for the Warm Up at 9:10am AEDT.

Every session of the event will be broadcast live on Foxtel (Fox Sports 503) and streamed on Kayo.

The Seven Network will provide live free to air coverage of the event.

Evolution of Bathurst pole lap time (1987 onwards)

2:16.96s: Klaus Ludwig, 19872:16.46s: Dick Johnson, 1988 (-0.5s)2:15.80s: Peter Brock, 1989 (-0.66s)2:13.94s: Klaus Niedzwiedz, 1990 (-1.86s)2:12.63s: Mark Skaife, 1991 (-1.31s)2:12.14s: Glenn Seton, 1994 (-0.48s)2:11.55s: Craig Lowndes, 1995 (-0.59s)2:11.01s: Glenn Seton, 1996 (-0.53s)2:10.03s: Mark Skaife, 1997 (-0.97s)2:09.89s: Mark Skaife, 1998 (-0.14s)2:09.51s: Mark Larkham, 1999 (-0.68s)2:08.82s: Mark Skaife, 2002 (-0.38s)2:06.85s: Greg Murphy, 2003 (-1.96s)2:06.32s: Shane van Gisbergen, 2014 (-0.53s)2:05.42s: Jamie Whincup, 2016 (-0.9s)2:03.83s: Scott McLaughlin, 2017 (-1.59s)2:03.78s: Chaz Mostert, 2019* (-0.04s)2:03.55s: Cameron Waters, 2020 (-0.23s)2:03.37s: Chaz Mostert, 2021 (-0.18s)

*Scott McLaughlin's 2019 pole-winning 2:03.378s was later excluded following a technical breach