The biggest weekend on the Australian motorsport calendar has arrived, with the eyes of the world turning to the country town of Bathurst, as man meets mountain for 1000 punishing kilometres.
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While Sunday’s race is the headline act, there is a mountain of support categories, as well as the Supercars practice, qualifying and top ten shootout to get through from Thursday onwards.
This is The Roar’s complete guide to the entire weekend, including the start and finish time of every single session which will take to the Mount Panorama circuit over the course of the weekend.
The action begins early on Thursday morning, with the Toyota 86 Racing Series first on track, their first practice session starting at 7:20am (AEDT).
Alongside the Supercars, we will then see the Touring Car Masters, SuperUtes Series, Porsche Carrera Cup and Super2 series across the course of the weekend.
The Super2 series is the main support act to the Supercars, and the proving ground for most young drivers, with plenty of the main-game co-drivers also racing in that series, while the others will provide plenty of entertainment for the crowd.
All times in the below guides are AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne).
Category | Session | Start time | Finish time | Information |
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Toyota 86 Racing Series | Practice 1 | 7:20am | 7:40am | |
Touring Car Masters | Practice 1 | 7:50am | 8:10am | |
SuperUtes Series | Practice 1 | 8:20am | 8:40am | |
Porsche Carrera Cup | Practice 1 | 8:50am | 9:40am | |
Supercars | Practice 1 | 9:55am | 10:55am | |
Toyota 86 Racing Series | Practice 2 | 11:05am | 11:20am | |
Supercars | Practice 2 | 12:45pm | 1:45pm | Co-drivers only |
SuperUtes Series | Practice 2 | 1:55pm | 2:15pm | |
Super 2 series | Practice 1 | 2:25pm | 3:05pm | |
Porsche Carrera Cup | Practice 2 | 3:15pm | 3:45pm | |
Supercars | Practice 3 | 4pm | 5pm | |
Touring Car Masters | Qualifying | 5:15pm | 5:35pm |
Category | Session | Start time | Finish time | Information |
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SuperUtes Series | Qualifying | 7:20am | 7:40am | |
Touring Car Masters | Trophy Race | 7:50am | 8:10am | 6 laps |
Supercars | Practice 4 | 8:25am | 9:25am | Co-drivers only |
Toyota 86 Racing Series | Qualifying | 9:40am | 10am | |
Super 2 series | Practice 2 | 10:10am | 10:50am | |
Supercars | Practice 5 | 11:05am | 12:05pm | |
Porsche Carrera Cup | Race 1 | 1:40pm | 2:25pm | 16 laps |
Super 2 series | Qualifying | 2:40pm | 3:10pm | |
Touring Car Masters | Race 1 | 3:25pm | 3:45pm | 6 laps |
Supercars | Qualifying | 4pm | 4:40pm | |
SuperUtes Series | Race 1 | 4:55pm | 5:15pm | 6 laps |
Category | Session | Start time | Finish time | Information |
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Toyota 86 Racing Series | Race 1 | 8:05am | 8:25am | 6 laps |
SuperUtes Series | Race 2 | 8:35am | 9am | 6 laps |
Super 2 series | Warm-up | 9:10am | 9:25am | |
Supercars | Practice 6 | 9:40am | 10:10am | |
Touring Car Masters | Race 2 | 10:20am | 10:40am | 6 laps |
Supercars | Practice 7 | 12:10pm | 12:40pm | |
Toyota 86 Racing Series | Race 2 | 12:55pm | 1:15pm | 6 laps |
SuperUtes Series | Race 3 | 1:25pm | 1:45pm | 6 laps |
Porsche Carrera Cup | Race 2 | 1:55pm | 2:20pm | 9 laps |
Super 2 series | Race 1 | 3pm | 4:45pm | 41 laps |
Supercars | Shootout | 5:05pm | 5:50pm | 1 lap, top ten |
Category | Session | Start time | Finish time | Information |
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Toyota 86 Racing Series | Race 3 | 7:45am | 8:05am | 6 laps |
Supercars | Warm-up | 8:20am | 8:40am | |
Touring Car Masters | Race 3 | 8:55am | 9:15am | 6 laps |
Supercars | Drivers parade | 9:25am | 9:55am | |
Porsche Carrera Cup | Race 3 | 10:05am | 10:30am | 9 laps |
Supercars | Race | 11:30am | 6:30pm | 161 laps |
Every session over the course of the weekend will be shown live on Fox Sports, which also means you can live stream the entire race weekend through Kayo Sports.
Channel Ten will also provide coverage from 1pm (AEDT) on Friday, 11:30am (AEDT) on Saturday, and 7:30am (AEDT) on Sunday.
The Roar will provide coverage of qualifying, the shootout, and the race.