2012 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
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| Round 11 of 15 in the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | 4–7 October 2012 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Bathurst, New South Wales | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Mount Panorama Circuit | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Fine | |||||||||||||
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| Race 1 | |||
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| Distance | 161 laps | 1000 km | |
| Pole position |
Will Davison Ford Performance Racing |
2:08.0693 | |
| Winner |
Jamie Whincup Paul Dumbrell Triple Eight Race Engineering |
6:16:01.3304 | |
The 2012 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was an Australian touring car motor race for V8 Supercars, the twenty-first race of the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship. It was held on Sunday, 7 October 2012 at the Mount Panorama Circuit on the outskirts of Bathurst, New South Wales, in Australia.
The Ford Performance Racing duo of Will Davison and John McIntyre started the race from pole position.Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell won the race, ahead of David Reynolds and Dean Canto in second place, and Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff completing the podium. Whincup and Dumbrell's race time of six hours, sixteen minutes and one-point-three seconds was the second-fastest race time in the history of the event.
The 2012 race was the sixteenth running of the Australian 1000 race, which was first held after the organisational split between the Australian Racing Drivers Club and V8 Supercars Australia that saw the Bathurst race run twice in 1997 and 1998, with one race open to V8 Supercar entries, and the other open to Super Touring cars. The schism was repaired in time for the 1999 race, with the race being open exclusively to V8 Supercars.
The 2012 race will also be the 56th race for which the lineage can be traced back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 – held at Phillip Island – and the 53rd to be held at Mount Panorama; the two separate races of 1997 and 1998 are recoginsed as four individual runnings of the event. Race organisers plan to use this race to celebrate the 50th year since the race first moved from Phillip Island to Mount Panorama in 1963, though it was not until 1973 that the race was run over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi); from 1963 to 1972, the race was run over 500 miles (800 km).
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