Supercars 2001 Bathurst 1000 - The Lost Tapes Edition
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V8 Supercar 1000 – Mt. Panorama Bathurst – 2001 – The Lost Tapes Edition
For years the drivers have been saying that the Bathurst 1000 is a ‘flatout sprint’, and not really a test of endurance. But 1000km around a track as demanding as this can never be dismissed as a straightforward exercise, and in 2001 the Bathurst 1000 was a classic old-style test of endurance. It was truly a survival of the fittest, with no less than 18 of the 39 starters failing to make the finish. Some of the most fancied runners fell victim to the unusual weather conditions that literally saw the Mountain experience four seasons in one day, with stars like Craig Lowndes and Larry Perkins both coming to grief during one of the rain spells. Both managed to return to the race to make the finish, but both well down 17th and eighth respectively. At the front of the field it was an absorbing see-sawing battle that saw no less than 10 different leaders and a total of 25 lead changes. It was also the race that almost delivered the upset of the century: The Brad Jones Racing OzEmail team had a shocking time in qualifying, with the ill-handling Brad Jones/John Cleland BJR Falcon AU only fast enough to qualify in a lowly 22nd place on the grid. The situation was so bad that the team called for drastic action, and made a wholesale raft of changes to the car overnight, hoping to rectify the situation. Almost miraculously, the car was transformed – all-of-a-sudden what had been undriveable in practice and qualifying was now easy to drive, and fast. So fast, in fact, that Cleland and Jones had no trouble slicing through the field, and in the end a charging Cleland came home in second place less than three seconds adrift of Mark Skaife’s HRT Commodore VX. Skaife was joined in victory celebrations by co-driver Tony Longhurst, who could have been forgiven for thinking that the Mountain owed him one after the previous year’s disappointment. It was Skaife’s third Bathurst win, nine long years after his past success; for Longhurst it had been 13 years since his first (and only other) win in the race.
Currently the master tapes for 2001 cannot be located. As an alternative we have, with the help from Supercars fans, been able to piece together the complete race day telecast by intercutting fan footage with the master sources we had. Therefore some footage during this program will appear grainy and not master quality; we felt it was better than nothing, and it does tell the complete story of this great race – as well as filling a gap in your collection.
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CMS24125 Hours 20 Minutes
- Duration:
- Approximately 5 Hours 40 minutes
