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How To Watch The Last V8-Powered Australian Bathurst 1000 This Weekend
How To Watch The Last V8-Powered Australian Bathurst 1000 This Weekend-October 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:28

One of the most brilliant, insane and unbelievable races of the year puts crazy overpowered sedans to battle around Australia’s Mount Panorama. The Bathurst 1000 starts tomorrow night, and it’s still disappointingly on American television. It’s the last time we’ll get to see an all-V8-powered field, though, so it’s worth watching. Here’s how.

What makes Bathurst worth the watch? It’s a 621-mile endurance race for big Aussie sedan touring cars, which means there’s plenty of bump ‘n’ grind on the tight, narrow Mount Panorama street course.

In addition to epic twisties, the Conrod Straight is one of the longest straights in motor racing, allowing these cars to go to plaid before they’re sent around “The Chase” chicane, which—let’s just say gets to be a source of entertainment when drivers miss it.

Then there’s the sound. While the 2017 don’t-call-them-V8-Supercars-anymore Supercars regulations allow for to enter the series, I’ll miss that glorious V8 roar. This is our last year to enjoy it. Savor it.

The timing of this year’s Bathurst 1000 is especially bittersweet. Holden vs. Ford was the defining rivalry of the V8 Supercar era. ended local Australian production this week, per. General Motors previously announced that Australian production of Holdens will in 2017.

Farewell, Aussie-made burnout machines. You served us well.

For Americans, our only legal means of watching Australia’s greatest race is through . The upside is that it’s a reliable commercial-free stream, so you won’t have to deal with 42 WeatherTech ads or bizarre mid-race channel changes interrupting the action. To be honest, I wish more series would follow suit and offer races directly like this.

Unfortunately, it looks like the per-race option for Bathurst is no longer available on the , so you’re stuck getting the $39.95 AUD season pass. That works out to $30.99 U.S., plus bank fees for an international transaction. (Less legal streams are also out there, but we’ll trust your Google-fu to figure those out.)

Bathurst’s pole-determining Top 10 Shootout starts tonight at 3:10 a.m. Eastern and the race itself starts at 8:10 p.m. Eastern on Saturday here. It’s time to hunker down with a giant pot of coffee and perhaps your Bathurst-legal . (There’s even a making the rounds, if you must.)

Get a ready for the ending. It’s going to be rad.

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