Pre-Order Supercars 2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 The Complete Race
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The 2010 Bathurst 1000 will be remembered for a number of reasons. For one, there was the spectacular opening lap crash when Fabian Coulthard’s Commodore VE copped a tap from behind going into the Chase at some 270km/h, the car being pitched into a series of violent barrel rolls through the Chase sandtrap. Miraculously, Coulthard emerged safely from the wreck.
It was also the race that introduced the current co-driver rule that prohibits teams from pairing their two regular drivers in the one car. This provided Mark Skaife not only with an unexpected opportunity to come out of retirement (he’d hung up the helmet two years earlier) but also the chance to win it again.
A five-time winner only recently out of the sport, a driver like Skaife was always going to be hot property under the new co-driver rules. Sure enough, Triple Eight Race Engineering signed him up, and Skaife went on to score a sixth Bathurst win.
For lead driver Craig Lowndes, it was Bathurst win number five. It continued an amazingly successful spell for Lowndes – he’d now won four of the past five Bathurst 1000s. The previous three wins had all been with Triple Eight Fords, but this latest one came in a Holden Commodore. Triple Eight, the dominant team in V8 Supercars from 2006 through 2009, switched sides to join Holden for 2010.
It was a defection that would prove costly for Ford in 2010 as its former winningest team delivered the goods on the Mountain – for Holden.
Mark Winterbottom had scored pole position on Saturday but that was to prove one of the few highlights for Ford at Bathurst in 2010. Rubbing salt into the wounds, the second Triple Eight Commodore of Whincup and Steve Owen finished second, and crossed the line alongside the winning car in a one-two staged photo finish. With Garth Tander and Cam McConville taking third place in their Commodore for the Holden Racing Team, it was a triumphant one-two-three for Holden.
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- Duration:
- Approximately 4 Hours 40 Minutes
