2007 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
| Event Information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 10 of 14 in the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series | ||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||
| Date | 4–7 October 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Bathurst, New South Wales | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Mount Panorama Circuit | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Fine, light drizzle during end of race | |||||||||||||
| Results | ||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Race 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | 161 laps | 1000 km | |
| Pole position |
Mark Winterbottom Ford Performance Racing |
2:07.0908 | |
| Winner |
Craig Lowndes Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering |
6:29:10.1985 | |
| Round Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| First | 72 pts | ||
| Second | 60 pts | ||
| Third | 51 pts | ||
The 2007 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was an endurance race for V8 Supercars, held on 7 October 2007 at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. It was the tenth round of the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series.
The race was the eleventh running of the Australian 1000, first held in 1997 following an organisational split that occurred with the Bathurst 1000 in that year. It was the 51st race in the combined history of the Bathurst 1000 and the Australian 1000.
Free practice was held over three sessions on Thursday, 4 October and Friday, 5 October 2007.
Qualifying was held in two stages on Friday, 5 October 2007. The opening part of the session decided grid positions 21 to 31, with the twenty fastest cars progressing to the second leg of qualifying which decided grid positions 11 to 20. The fastest ten cars progress through to the traditional Top Ten Shootout, held the following day to decide grid positions 1 to 10. During the first leg of qualifying, Damien White crashed the Team BOC #14 Falcon, sustaining a concussion and sufficient damage to the car to put White and co-driver Christian Murchison out of the race.
After qualifying three cars, the #22 Holden Racing Team Commodore of Glenn Seton and Nathan Pretty, the #20 Supercheap Auto Racing Commodore of Paul Dumbrell and Paul Weel and the #55 Autobarn Racing Commodore of Steve Owen and Tony D'Alberto were excluded from qualifying after changing engines twice when under the regulations only one engine change is allowed without penalty. Additionally, Alex Davison missed a direction to have his car weighed on the scales at the end of the second leg qualifying which saw the Dick Johnson Racing Falcon excluded from the second leg of qualifying, relegating them to 20th grid position, which later became 19th after the exclusion of the Seton/Pretty Commodore.
...
Wikipedia