With the warmer months of spring almost upon us, thoughts to turn to… Bathurst and the annual Great Race.
BATHURST: The Great Race 2024 magazine, the definite pre-Bathurst 1000 race guide, this year unpacks season two of the new Gen3 Camaro-vs-Mustang Supercars era as the teams prepare for the enduros.
Where last year’s race had the added intrigue of the unknown – after a season dogged by mechanical issues, could the new cars even last the 1000km? – but this year it’s the drivers that are under the spotlight.
With the significant reshuffle of driver lineups that took place at the end of last year, along with the addition of several promising rookies, already this season has seen some unfamiliar faces on the podium. If any year is primed to deliver an upset winning driver combo at Bathurst, it’s 2024.
When it comes to what’s happened previously on the Mountain, this year marks several important anniversary milestones: 40 years since the ‘Last of the Big Bangers’ Peter Brock HDT one-two in the ’84 James Hardie 1000, and half a century since the celebrated underdog win for John Goss and Kevin Bartlett in their McLeod Ford Falcon Hardtop GT in the 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000.
BATHURST magazine looks back on those epic races, and also charts the unhappy course of the history of rule breaking in the Great Race. As our story shows, the moral outcry from locals over the illegal Eggenberger Sierras in 1987 was something akin to people in glass houses throwing stones…
BATHURST: The Great Race 2024 is on sale nationally in newsagents, or can be ordered online anytime from Mymagazines.
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