The Great Race 1960 - 2015 (NaN)

A fabulous era in Australian motor sport commenced at Phillip Island, Victoria, with the 1960 Armstrong 500 for production cars. The endurance race moved from the Island to Mount Panorama, Bathurst in 1963. This video details the first seven years of Australia’s Greatest Motor Race and makes compulsive viewing and is, indeed, a collector’s item.

Australia’s classic endurance race, the Bathurst 1000, has entertained millions of people and probably none more colourful than the 1967-1974 era. It was during this period that the youngsters of the calibre of Colin Bond, Allan Moffat, Peter Brock and John Goss emerged to cave a niche for themselves in local motor sporting history.

By 1975, after 13 years of the race being held at Bathurst, it had firmly established itself as a annual race legend, one never to be forgotten in the history of Australian motor sport. The Ford-Holden battle raged relentlessly on the Mountain during 1975 to 1985.

Although it was 1981 that saw the introduction of the turbo entry into The Great Race with the Nissan Bluebird, it was not until 1988 that a turbo-charged machine came to the flag in the No 1 position. From this point on, The Great Race has been dominated by turbos, in particular the Sierra RS 500’s and in the latter years by the sophisticated fore wheel drive, twin-turbo GT-R of Nissan.

THE return of V8-powered Commodores and Falcons full-time to Australian touring car racing in 1993 was welcomed by race fans all over the country as the annual Bathurst 1000 endurance race returned somewhat to its homegrown roots.

The Boys are Back at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama, and proved that nothing shakes the Mountain like V8 Supercars. This new release highlights the Holden vs Ford classic battles from 1997-2001 – they raced for four years in November and the fifth back to the traditional October.

This exciting release “The Great Race Supercars 2002 – 2008” features 30-minute highlights packages from each of these seven Bathurst 1000 races. It was a classic era of V8 Supercars racing that saw the gradual emergence of then-Ford team Triple Eight Race Engineering at a time when the factory Walkinshaw/Holden Racing Team squad was the benchmark team – classic Holden-vs-Ford action on the Mountain in the noughties!

A new era dawn on “The Great Race Supercars 2009 – 2015” new faces. new teams and new cars manufacturers all taking on the mountain “Mount Panorama”. This release feature 30minute highlight packages of each race. The racing is outstanding as all battle to have their name etched in The Great Race history books.