2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
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| Round 11 of 14 in the 2017 International V8 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
| File:Mount Panorama street racing circuit in Australia.svg Layout of the Mount Panorama Circuit | ||||||||||||||
| Date | 5–8 October 2017 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Bathurst, New South Wales | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Mount Panorama Circuit | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Showers early before clearing to overcast late. | |||||||||||||
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The 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held from October 5 to 8 2017 at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, and consisted of a 1000 kilometre race. It was the eleventh event of fourteen in the 2017 Supercars Championship and was Race 20 of the season. It was also the second event of the 2017 Enduro Cup.
DJR Team Penske driver Scott McLaughlin qualified on pole with a lap time of 2:03.8312, the fastest lap of the Mount Panorama Circuit recorded by a Supercar.[N 1]
The race was won by David Reynolds and Luke Youlden driving a Holden VF Commodore for Erebus Motorsport.
Report
[edit | edit source]Background
[edit | edit source]The event was the 60th 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 marked the 57th time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It was the 21st 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 was the 19th time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the fifth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Will Davison and Jonathon Webb.
Scott McLaughlin entered the event as the championship leader, 84 points clear of Triple Eight Race Engineering's Jamie Whincup. McLaughlin's DJR Team Penske team-mate Fabian Coulthard was third in the points standings, 161 behind McLaughlin. In the Teams' Championship, DJR Team Penske held a 372-point lead over Triple Eight.[1] In the Enduro Cup standings, Prodrive Racing Australia team-mates Cam Waters and Richie Stanaway led the pairing of McLaughlin and Alexandre Prémat by 24 points.[2]
Entry list
[edit | edit source]Twenty-six cars were entered in the event. It was the first time since 2008 that no additional "Wildcard" entries had been received for the race. The race would see the Bathurst 1000 debut of four drivers - Super2 drivers Todd Hazelwood, Richard Muscat and Garry Jacobson and main-game debutant Alex Rullo. Rullo (at 17 years, 4 months and 23 days) would become the fourth youngest Bathurst 1000 starter after Cam Waters (17 years, 2 months and 6 days in 2011), Paul Dumbrell (17 years, 2 months and 14 days in 1999) and Bryan Sala (17 years, 2 months and 15 days in 1991).
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- Notes
- ^1 — following Practice 3 Ashley Walsh was replaced by Andre Heimgartner due to injury.
Practice
[edit | edit source]Three one-hour practice sessions were held on the Thursday prior to the race. Practice 1 and Practice 3 were open to both regular drivers and co-drivers, while Practice 2 was for co-drivers only. The first session saw Mostert set the fastest lap time of 2:06.3033. Lowndes was second fastest, six hundredths behind while Todd Kelly was sixteen hundredths further back.[5] Tim Slade caused a red flag as a result of losing control in the Esses before heavily impacting the wall on the entry to the Dipper. The session was halted again with nineteen minutes remaining after Alex Rullo stopped on Conrod Straight having found the wall at Forrest's Elbow.[6]
Results
[edit | edit source]Practice
[edit | edit source]| Session | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
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| Thursday | |||||
| Practice 1 | 55 | Australia Chaz Mostert | Rod Nash Racing | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:06.3032 |
| Practice 2 | 5 | Australia Dean Canto | Prodrive Racing Australia | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:06.3268 |
| Practice 3 | 9 | Australia David Reynolds | Erebus Motorsport | Holden VF Commodore | 2:05.0931 |
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| Practice 4 | 5 | Australia Dean Canto | Prodrive Racing Australia | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:05.3368 |
| Practice 5 | 17 | New Zealand Scott McLaughlin | DJR Team Penske | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:04.1470 |
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| Practice 6 | 9 | Australia David Reynolds | Erebus Motorsport | Holden VF Commodore | 2:04.9948 |
| Sunday | |||||
| Warm-Up | 18 | Australia Lee Holdsworth | Team 18 | Holden VF Commodore | 2:06.3375 |
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Qualifying
[edit | edit source]- Notes
- ^1 — James Moffat had his fastest lap time invalidated for causing a red flag.
Top 10 Shootout
[edit | edit source]| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Grid |
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| 1 | 17 | New Zealand Scott McLaughlin | DJR Team Penske | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:03.8312 | 1 | |
| 2 | 9 | Australia David Reynolds | Erebus Motorsport | Holden VF Commodore | 2:04.2746 | +0.4434 | 2 |
| 3 | 5 | Australia Mark Winterbottom | Prodrive Racing Australia | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:04.4988 | +0.6676 | 3 |
| 4 | 55 | Australia Chaz Mostert | Rod Nash Racing | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:04.5875 | +0.7563 | 4 |
| 5 | 97 | New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden VF Commodore | 2:04.6688 | +0.8376 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | Australia Cam Waters | Prodrive Racing Australia | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:04.6802 | +0.8490 | 6 |
| 7 | 12 | New Zealand Fabian Coulthard | DJR Team Penske | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:04.9693 | +1.1381 | 7 |
| 8 | 56 | Australia Jason Bright | Britek Motorsport | Ford FG X Falcon | 2:05.2277 | +1.3965 | 8 |
| 9 | 33 | Australia Garth Tander | Garry Rogers Motorsport | Holden VF Commodore | 2:05.3261 | +1.4949 | 9 |
| 10 | 22 | Australia James Courtney | Walkinshaw Racing | Holden VF Commodore | 2:05.4890 | +1.6578 | 10 |
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Race 20
[edit | edit source]Standings after the event
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
Broadcast
[edit | edit source]The event telecast was produced by Supercars Media and carried domestically by Fox Sports Australia (via Fox Sports 506), a paid service which covered all sessions including support categories, and Network 10 (via free-to-air channels 10 and 10 Bold), which covered select sessions from midday Friday onwards. The coverage won a Logie in 2018 for Most Outstanding Sports Coverage.[17]
| Fox Sports | Network 10 |
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| Host: Jessica Yates, Russell Ingall Booth: Neil Crompton, Mark Skaife Pit-lane: Riana Crehan, Greg Murphy, Greg Rust |
Presenters: Aaron Noonan, Matthew White Pundits: Rick Kelly, Mark Larkham Roving: Scott MacKinnon, Kate Peck |
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ David Reynolds is recognised as holding the official lap record for Supercars as his time of 2:06.2769 was set during a race.
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| Previous year: 2016 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 |
Bathurst 1000 | Next year: 2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 |