2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000

2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000

Event Information
Round 11 of 14 in the 2017 International V8 Supercars Championship
Layout of the Mount Panorama Circuit
Date	5–8 October 2017
Location	Bathurst, New South Wales
Venue	Mount Panorama Circuit
Weather	Showers early before clearing to overcast late.
Results
Race 1 Distance 161 laps 1000 km Pole position Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske 2:03.8312 Winner David Reynolds Luke Youlden Erebus Motorsport 7:11:45.5456

Race 1
Distance	161 laps	1000 km
Pole position	Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske	2:03.8312
Winner	David Reynolds Luke Youlden Erebus Motorsport	7:11:45.5456

The 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 5 to 8 October 2017. The event was held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, New South Wales, and consisted of a 1000 kilometre race. It was the eleventh event of fourteen in the 2017 Supercars Championship and was Race 20 of the season. It was also the second event of the 2017 Enduro Cup.

DJR Team Penske driver Scott McLaughlin qualified on pole with a lap time of 2:03.8312, the fastest lap of the Mount Panorama Circuit recorded by a Supercar.

The event was the 60th running of the Bathurst 1000, which was first held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in 1960 as a 500-mile race for Australian-made standard production sedans, and marked the 57th time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It was the 21st 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 two "Bathurst 1000" races contested in both 1997 and 1998. It was the 19th time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the fifth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Will Davison and Jonathon Webb.

Scott McLaughlin entered the event as the championship leader, 84 points clear of Triple Eight Race Engineering's Jamie Whincup. McLaughlin's DJR Team Penske team-mate Fabian Coulthard was third in the points standings, 161 behind McLaughlin. In the Teams' Championship, DJR Team Penske held a 372-point lead over Triple Eight. In the Enduro Cup standings, Prodrive Racing Australia team-mates Cameron Waters and Richie Stanaway led the pairing of McLaughlin and Alexandre Prémat by 24 points.