Wow the old circut was rough, I forgot how raw it was, drove a Bug Eye Sprite there in 62

Amazing footage! Bathurst was a "rural" race tracck back then! The average person is unaware of Mt Panorama's rich motorsport history before the "500" & the "1000" saloon car races, so it's great to see this shown here.

The worst thing about this is that I remember all the names in this race. Makes me old (76).

Back when the "gravel trap" was anywhere off the racing line... Thanks for sharing this wonderful footage.

In 1960 & for quite a few years motorbikes raced on the track on Easter Saturday with the cars having the track on Sunday for practice on Sunday and racing on Easter Monday. I know this ascI raced bikes there in 60, 61 & 62. It's really great to see the track as it was then compared to today. I'm sure the dipper in the esses has been modified to suit the cars as I can remember it being very prononced when I rode. My Norton used to max out at 128 mph down Conrod Straight & I can tell you thr road surface was much rougher then than todays billiard smooth surface. Great video bring back lots of memories of my younger days. Now 81.

Like number 500, what great vintage cars!.

amazing that the overall layout hasn't changed, there's just more barriers and more run off now

Absolutely priceless footage...thanks for sharing !

This is so cool. Everything from the 60's commentary ot hte 60's music, to the fact that Bathurst is almost unrecognisable due to the lack of barriers. These cars are awesome and I love the history of Bathurst.

I loved the track of the sixties before the TV commercialised everything.

Great footage this. This may well be the oldest surviving TV broadcast of an Australian race.

All that dust on the goat track.

Well placed trees and telegraph poles...

That would have to be the Late Bill Peach commentating I recon.

I was there cheers

Amazing how Mount Panorama has changed in the last 60 years. It was almost like an amateur "club" race, with a scrappy surface and almost the complete absence of advertising hoardings, billboards - hardly even little promotional signs anywhere apart from a few on pit straight. There was clearly very little money involved in the race. In fact, other than pit straight, it doesn't actually even look like a race track - just a country road that is scenic at one part and pretty ugly everywhere else. Obviously, this was a race for "pure" racing cars - open wheelers - but the name "Bathurst 100" also tells us this event was the premier car race of the year at "the mountain" and thus the forerunner of the saloon car 500 and 1000. Did you see the driver wearing a T-shirt! Things seem to have changed very quickly in just the next 10 years after this video. A lot of hoopla and live coverage came along in the very early 70s - and neck to ankle fire resistant racing suits were routine just those few years later. Full-face helmets crept in during the mid-70s if memory serves. I wonder how much the spectators paid back then for admission?? Two shillings?? Nothing at all??

yhank you

Brilliant stuff. Is there any footage of racing at the Gnoo Blas circuit at Orange in the 50s?

i could spend 6 and a half hours of this instead of the crap they have now

How the complex has evolved! I was born 3 years later , some names are familiar!!!!👍👍👍👌

Lots of names who became wealthy Holden and Ford dealers

1:16 Starting line timing equipment: squarish board (probably roughly cut, asbestos fibre 'cement sheet'); black paint; small brush.

I noticed the mention and introduction of Glynn Scott. My dad and l were at the Lakeside circuit in Queensland the day he was killed.

The 'Superannuated' Orlando MG ?

Wow pre tobacco advertising, long way to go.

Just like going for a drive.

Hell's teeth but that course was dangerous back then. Wooden "safety" rails and not many of them either. I remember when such a fuss was made when the first 100 MPH average lap was made in a touring car. The open wheelers had done that years before when the circuit was a true road circuit.

wow pit straight looks impressive... room to move, set up the bbq, and best of all have a drive around the course on the way home.... sweet.

@TheRacer120 I have part of the 1959 race too but not the intro or race start. Only about the last 10 minutes or so of the race.

awesome bit of footage.

Holly shit D-type short nose next to Ferrari Monza @27 sec. 5-6 million dollars.

THESE GUYS HAD HUGE BALLS

I can just imagine Brock trying to go "fast" in one of these XD

It's hard to tell what's dirt and what's bitumen..! Seems to be of no consequence to the drivers or the commentator. 😄

I'm not sure if somebody has asked you or not, but could you please upload what you have of the '59 race. That would be really exciting to watch as well. Thanks for the uploads!

Can you please find the 1970 Australian Rowing Championships on the Nepian River, Penrith? The race in particular is the Light Weight Eight which was won by the Sydney Rowing Club and Mosman Rowing Club came in second. I was in the Sydney Rowing Club Light Weight Eight. My cousin, Nick Padol was in the Mosman Rowing Club Eight. Nick passed away in December 2018.

Craig Lowndes won Bathurst today WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🇦🇺

Is that a house on the straight?

When the ABC wasn't run by activists