I don't think there's a promotional video anywhere that has the effect this one does. I'm a little old lady with almost no interest in motorsport, but I haven't missed watching Bathurst in decades. It's a weekend of enjoying the wonder of the Mountain.

Fun fact the on board camera in race cars was first used at Bathurst back in 1979

The announcer is Mark Larkham he is a retired driver and team owner he never won the race but tried many times . There are soo many clips of the race best you just start scanning through what ever catches your eye from the lap of the gods to kangaroos vs Bathurst or one of the last to first wins .

Hi from Australia, Mount Panorama is a public road most of the year... that is why it is no narrow. These V8 supercars tackle it at up to 300 kilometres (aussie spelling) per hour!

Mark is the man when it comes to explaining Bathurst. No one does it better.

The thing I love about Bathurst is that you can run a near perfect 1000km race and still only win by a car lenght.

i went to melbourne f1 grand prix a few years back. they also had a v8 supercar race before the main event. the V8s sounded like thunder destroying the world, going around the track, was far more spectacular than the f1s

Living in Bathurst, I do a lap at least once a week, it's either to take the kids to the park or see if any kangaroos are out and about

Its a public road so most Aussies have done a lap😊

Bathurst is on October 8. Race starts 10AM AEST. You should find a way to watch it.

The beginning of the 'Bathurst Racing' was the Armstrong 500 (miles) the cars were virtually driven from the dealership to the track and raced. They were absolutely stock standard no roll cages or upgrades. I recommend you search some of the earlier races. There were drivers like Alan Moffat, Peter Brock, Dick Johnson and countless other brilliant drivers.

Aussie Here: The Bathurst circuit is in a class of its own. There really is nothing else like it in the world. The reason the guy in the video makes the race sound so good is he "Mark Larkham" was a driver/owner and has driven Bathurst many times. The "A" in Bathurst is pronounced like "cat" not "car". Aussies gets narky when names of places get butchered when it happens over and over. There are exceptions like "Thebarton". Me being a South Aussie I LMAO when I hear someone try to pronounce it. If you really want to have your mind blown, look up "Australian inventions that changed the world". There is a clip of a former Nascar driver turned commentator "Darrell Waltrip Bathurst V8 Supercar Hotlaps" when Jason Bright gave Darrel Waltrip a trip around Bathurst he will never forget. It is so funny.

I have watched so meny reactions to this and your the only one that does not talk s#*t all the way through it thanks for showing this some respect 👍

Being at the top of the mountain at first lap and hearing all the cars thunder past is an sound event you will never forget.

For us petrol heads in Australia this is our superbowl this is our World Cup final.And this is one of the most brutal most brilliant races anywhere on the planet

Greg Murphy lap of the Gods ! 2002 Bathurst was a nail-biting Finnish. 1979 Bathurst is legendary a fantastic watch !

If you somehow manage to get all that right, your reward is that you get to do it 160 more times!

Bathurst is our religion and the mountain is our church. The greatest weekend of the year for V8 fans. The track is actually a road that ppl use daily but not Bathurst weekend

Look up Lap Of The Gods….

We have an old song, "Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars... on repeat."

If you like Bathurst the main event is on the 8th October, that’s next weekend but allow for the 10 hours time difference. If you want to watch some real driver skills watch Larry Perkins from 1985’s with his last to first win, it’s truely amazing. He still builds race motors and him and his son Jack Perkins restore old race cars back to original in unbelievable detail. Jack has a KZfaq channel to show how they do it.

You MUST look at the Darrell Waltrip lap of Bathurst. Laugh.....!!!!!

161 laps (up to 8 hours) of this monstrous 6km track up and down the Mountain. This Mountain EATS CARS.. If you can be in the top 10, after 6-8 hours of racing, you can win this race.. And it always has a close finish, even after 161 laps.. These are usually public roads btw.. Hard to resist the urge.. More than one person has got a speeding ticket here haha Hi, liked and subscribed from Adelaide, South Australia (in the middle, down the bottom!!)

When you visit Sydney - hire a car, spend some time in the Blue Mountains, then head over the the mountain to Bathurst and have a drive around the mount Panorama circuit (at regular speed - sorry!) Still an absolute thrill, that track is wicked!

To win a touring car championship 7 times over, your good. Win Bathurst just once, you are the greatest and everyone will remember you for the rest of their lives

The Bathurst 1000 is held over 4 days, with the big race on the Sunday. Bathurst 2023 is from Thursday 5th October to Sunday 8th October.

The top ten shootout is what gives me the goosebumps. I have been to this race 30 odd times and still it's always the top ten shootout that i'm most excited about each year.

There’s a gazillion YT Bathurst videos out there. A longer video but one with a great story and plenty of great footage is “The greatest Race Ever” from Josh Revell Even if it’s too long for a reaction video it’s worth watching for yourself

Up on the Mountain are hundreds of dedicated fans camping for the weekend. It is quite a show. There is a video of a Nascar Commentator in a race car taken around the Bathurst track. He is holding on for grim death with a few choice words. Its a good video.

I watched this race on TV my whole life from being a kid...and i never understood the elevation changes until i got up there in my 30's (about a decade ago) , you just cant see it on TV and its hard to explain. From griffiths to the cutting, you are literally leaning forward trying to walk it. Skyline to forrests elbow took 6 guys to pull the full esky back up the hill.... the whole track is just insanity, and you dont really get it until you see it with your own eyes

The Bath in Bathurst is pronounced like Kath. Good video.

Bathurst is the best racing bar none. As an Aussie I’m surprised that others who like racing are just learning about it. As a kid in the 70s we’d sit and watch the 500 mile, then later the 1000km race in October every year. Camping in front of the TV for the whole day. In the 80s we went to Bathurst to watch. Phenomenal. I will say though that the most compelling times were when the cars were based on real cars that you could buy instead of predominantly the same car with a kit to look like a road car.

hey mate I am an aussie lad that has known bathurst all my life and the opening line of that video is so true i went to bathurst 2019 and I will" never forget it simply because there is nothing like it" do yourself a favour

As as Aussie this shit makes me emotional, one of the best race tracks on earth.

The 12 hour race is good too, Porche, Mercedes, Bentley, Ferrari etc.

The track is actually a public road and you can go and drive around it any day there's not a race there. I've driven around it a couple of times and it's only then you realise how ridiculously difficult it would be to try and race around there at the speeds they go at. I'm sure there's many others who can say the same thing.

Love this video - I must've seen it a hundred times and it never gets old. If you want to see some races, Supercars uploaded a whole heap of old races ('00s, early '10s) to KZfaq during the covid lockdowns, which was awesome of them. Bathurst is THE race of the year, of course, but the Phillip Island track is gorgeous (I've been around it a few times on ride days, and it's even better in person), Adelaide will have you biting your nails every time the cars slide right to the fence around Turn 8, and there's nothing like watching a ton and a half of V8 take to the air over the Gold Coast chicanes. The Supercars channel is here: www.youtube.com/@SupercarsChampionship. If you want to watch one of the most epic Bathursts ever I'd recommend the 2014 race ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m8iRrKum28iWmKM.html ) but if you're not up for 8 hours of viewing, Josh Revell has a good summary of it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrObrad-praRaGQ.html .(I find his commentary a bit annoying, personally, but plenty of others seem to like it; YMMV.) Hope you enjoy the trip down this particular rabbit hole!

I remember one year where some NASCAR announcers went down there to broadcast the race. One of them was 3 time NASCAR Champion Darrell Waltrip. He went for a ride in a two-seat version of one of the race cars and he was wearing a microphone and he was screaming going through some of the corners at speed.

This IS real racing - the best race in the world. Welcome mate!

I was fortunate to be at Bathurst in 2019 but not for the V8 Supercars, it was the 12 hours which is for GT cars. The race starts in darkness and I was at the top of the mountain. Seeing and feeling a whole grid of GT cars come over the top with the headlights on full was something I'll never forget. I'm hoping I can go back next year, 2024.

These days this race is won by 10ths of seconds after 1000kms of racing but back in the day 1979, Peter Brock - The King Of The Mountain - won it by 6 Laps. That was roughly 15mins, and he raced it alone, all 1000kms. So when you watch this year's race in early October and you hear the name Peter Brock, and You Will Hear the Name Peter Brock, you will have some understanding of who he was..

This is not just the one race but over years of racing accidents it is the greatest race in the world 5th Oct to the 8th Oct this year 2023. Can't wait. AND that road is just a normal road for travelling on.

Nurburgring squeezed into 6km.. the climb up and run down are so steep.. you have to see it first person.. best circuit in the world.. as for the most frightening crash you will ever see.. look at Bill Browns crash there in 1971.. still sends chills down my backbone... saw it live as a 18 year old racing fan..

This is the best race on the motor racing calendar. I might miss Daytona, the Indy 500, Le Mans or Monaco Grand Prix, but I can NEVER miss Bathurst.

Mark is a gun when it comes to explaining how those cars work, how the tracks play out. He's been there and done it. Bathurst is one of a kind. It can be sunny when the light turns green and pouring 3 hours later and cars plowing into the walls on slick tyres. That one lap, then do it 161 odd times more. They also run, not with the supercars, a 12 and 24hr race. There's really no circuit like it and the video does no juat ice to the changes in gradients. Nice video mate.

I've travelled the Mountain under normal road speed and I am astounded that they can reach the speeds that they do and survive at all. That is why it is probably the most unforgiving and technically challenging motor race track in the world. One tiny mistake and you're pretty much gone.

It's the v8 supercar series, it's kinda like Nascar vehicles without any oval tracks. It is usually 300-500km races but they have some endurance races at 1000km with driver changes. Races in australia and New Zealand.

My husband raced motorcycles at Mt Panorama when they used to have a large motorcycle race meeting during the easter holidays. They stopped racing motorcycles after all the concrete barriers were put in for the car racing.

😂 the Greg Murphy "lap of the gods" is a great watch... Bathurst from the 80s and 90s was the best

I think it’s been mentioned already but Greg Murphy lap of the gods for an epic lap or I think it was ‘95 Larry Perkins last to first is pretty good.

I was lucky here in the US. We use to have a tv channel called SPEED, they covered the Bathurst 1000 one year. One of the best damn road races I have ever watched and I'm 48 and have watched many.

The vid you watched was 5 liter V8's limited to 7500RPM 620HP+ The current series are 5.4L DOHC V8s will replace the current Coyote 5.0L V8 engines for Mustang and 5.7-litre for Camaro. But the target is to cap the power output at 485kW to 447kW

How come you never heard of this? That's Australia mate. It's full of surprises. It never stops to amaze me for a country of 25 million people. Most of this stuff started with a much, much small number of residents. And then there's the 60,000 years of commitment on top of it all.

The iconic Bathurst race doesn’t really have any more accidents than other races, but Bathurst is unforgiving. Up hill with fast corners that are cambered to send you into the concrete fence......assuming you made it passed the bumps etc in the breaking area . Being a public scenic road up and down a large hill ( very very small mountain ), the track is narrow with only 2 run off areas......first and last corners. Every where else is lined by solid concrete walls that shouldn’t move....... make a mistake and you kiss the concrete..... unless lucky and you hit a tyre wall in front of the concrete....... or unlucky , miss the wall and fly into a sand trap or maybe even over the wall and out into space ..... then maybe roll down the mountain. The concrete walls are there to stop cars damaging the trees ( half way up or higher ) or taking to flight and missing the trees....... but some drivers do at times leave the track and try to clear the fences. Since 1970 they have kept “ improving “ the track by making it easier to drive and not as demanding. By about the year 2050 it should be completely safe, sterile and boring and already extinct.

I’m in the Bathurst area as I watch this, drove around the track yesterday as it’s a public road when not being raced on . One of the great tracks of the world. Bathurst 1000 (km) is the race all us Aussies grew up watching. BTW, 2nd video watched by you brother… Get your ass down here. Thank you for showing us Aussies what we might sometimes take for granted 👍🏽

Love the content. Wow. They know how to build a fast car. Americans love Australia. It's a cool place with cool people and great surf. 🤘

Live near Bathurst, lost count of the times I’ve driven around this track . You’ll never understand the skill these drivers have until you’ve driven around it 😳

If you happen to see this, the race is on this weekend. You'll find short videos already posted for the practice sessions.

7:12 yes. And there have been fatalities as well and the crash you are watching was Chaz mostert breaking his leg during qualifying

Just a fun fact that few outside Aussieland know, these days it is mandatory for there to be two or more drivers for the car, to do the 161laps or 1000kms. But up till the late 1980s some drivers did the race solo, the full 1000kms alone, Collin Bond, Allan Moffat and Peter Brock, to name a few but Moffat and Brock are the only two men to win the Bathurst race solo (Moffat did it twice).

6 hours, 1000 Km! wins by a car length, that's racing!

FYI this race is run once per year and this October its on again

This is the greatest race in the Supercar Championship Series; there is no other series in the world that compares, and there is no car race in the world that comes anywhere close to adrenaline rush that this race produces. It can be either pure symmetry or pure chaos. This race is one of the longest in the Series, you repeat the circuit 161 times; covering 1,000 km in 6 hrs plus. Buckle up for the thrill of your life.

We also have a race that happens at Bathurst early each year which is the Bathurst 12hr. I highly recommend watching some clips from that race as well.

Some of the greatest British drivers over the years have raced at Bathurst , in V8 Supercars & GT world challenge cars as it’s part of the championship with a 12 race & 6 hour Jenson Button drove a F1 Car around there in 1:48 with a Mc!aren Mercedes

V8 super cars are unique to Australia. To my knowledge this year was the first time Nascar raced on a street circuit. For 51 weeks of the year the Mountain is a two way street. Yep we're nuts and we love it.

That was the opener for the telecast a few years back.

Youn3ed to go back and watch 4aces from the 70 and 80s. With Big rev Kev, Brockie and Dick Johnson. Back then, they had all sorts of makes and model from Mini coopers to the V8s... Fantastic watching!

NASCAR drivers only go round in circles. in Australia we actually go around corners in both directions. the latest generation NASCAR chassis is based upon the Aussie Supercar chassis. i may also be biased but i personally think this would be one of the best promotional videos for a sporting event ever made. well done Larko.

Greg Murphy's lap of the gods is a good one and Daryl Waltrips lap of Bathurst is another.. as a side note one of the Kiwi Supercars drivers (Shane Van Gisbergen) went over and raced in a NASCAR race in Chicago and won, that's worth a watch to compare the skills between the two as it was a street circuit which Supercars drivers are used to where as NASCAR drivers are not.

This is one lap of 161 of the most intense tracks in the world, Imagine the mental and physical toll that it must take during 161 laps.

The 07 intro is my favorite ! Since 08 Before left home to race karts i watched watched it In a 7 year span scored about 100 poduims ! Inspiration from afar as i live in Canada ! My 1st club kart number was 888 !! Last tume watched was September 2nd and next race is October 7 and 27 . Scored a podium last round and semi retired for 5 years . More a track marshal now ! Get to stand around and watch racing all day Poor me 😁🏁

Bathurst local here. Look for "Lap of the Gods", " Jensen Button Bathurst F1" and Audi TT sub 2 min lap Mt Panorama. All good videos of the Mount. BTW call it Bathurst, the a is pronounced like cat. Say it like you hate the place 😊

IT’S BATHURST WEEKEND!!! Woohoo!!! Let’s GO!!!

It has history too, they've raced that road for nearly a century, all types of vehicles too. Look up the Armstrong 500 or the Hardie-Ferodo 500/1000 if you want to see what are now vintage cars, but were then race tuned, ohh, and there were no safety barriers either, an off meant literally that, off the side of a mountain.

That was an awesome overview of one lap at Bathurst. The race is 161 laps.

100th 'Like' and Subscribed. From Australia.

He talks tough. It may sound really melodramatic to someone who doesn't know much about this race. Believe the hype. He is an ex racing driver himself. This is a very tough and amazing race. It runs for 6 hours over 1000 odd kilometres. 161 laps. 6.213 km circuit. It is Australia's pride and joy. These big V8 sedans at maximum. Some truly world class drivers in these big heavy yet fairly fast racing cars.

You don’t realise how steep and scary that downhill section is until you drive it. Aussie’s don’t pronounce it like ‘bath-hurst’ either.

I'm from Bathurst, and it's an amazing time. I'm not into racing but watch it every year. You can hear the cars revving at the beginning of the race from kilometres away 😍❤😊

Runs from the 5th to the 8th October this year. If you can find a way to watch it, it's great fun.

As well as the supercars they also run a 12 hour sports car race, "Often a wild event", They ran moter bikes up until about 2000.

The guy telling you what the track is about his name is Mark Larkham he used to race V8 super car, his knowledge is second to no one ,this is a public road massive amount of tourists go up there they stopped racing motorcycles due to the dangers of the track but best time camping up top of the mountain cheers from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

Australians are also the ones who gave the R32 skyline the nickname Godzilla because it was a beast on the track

It's great on tv, but for the ultimate experience you need to be there in person. Some older V8 Supercars have been at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Since day one of Supercars they both ran 5 litre V8's, now the current Gen 3 cars run 5.4 (Mustang) or 5.7 (Camaro) V8's.

Back in the day there were motorbike races around this track! Crazy stuff!

There’s nothing like Bathurst

@MoreKabirConsiders Its a public road for the farmers so you can drive it (dont speed, youll be in jail). The easiest way to get a feel for it is imagine you are racing up and down a giant egg, with cork screw passage, every corner on way down is 70Degrees or less and on two wheels, front left down, front righ up, then front right down, left front up. You cant take the middle of road as you will be airborne and bounce over the wall and down the mountain a rolling you will go for 1klm. You have a straight on the way up the egg 1k and 2.5k down, you need two disk brakes on each wheel as its 340+kph on the way down and gravity sucks!!!!!!!!!! I encourage you to drive it and when you go thru the S'es at 40kph, just imagine on race day they are at 120-160kph. You need racing tyres 15" radials no help at all. Have a nice day.

Jack Braham, the only driver E V E R who DESIGNED, BUILT, AND RACED HIS OWN CAR to win .. FORMULA ONE An ABSOLUTE Australian LEGENT. RIP our Jack

Watch Greg Murphy's lap of the Gods or the 1979 race at Bathurst

While they try to keep drivers safe, Bathurst is a crashapollooza race track that has claimed the life of a number of drivers.

Like the F1 track at Monaco, this is a public road. I’ve driven it in a hire car and the descent from the mountain is scary at 60 km/h. My favourite race…

Aussie motorsport fans are spoilt with a track like this in our “backyard”!! Yes there are a lot of accidents/crashes during a race but there are sections of the race where they just go round & round for hours with nothing happening!! The engineering of the cars these days means they can run @ 100% all day without engines & gearboxes failing!!! In the old days pistons exiting the block were quite common going flat out down conrod straight!!

I'm Ozzie so I know all about this race... Seen this clip sooo many times... Still gives me goosebumps...

One of the best tracks in the world . Thay do 161 laps . With two drivers

Even at 25mph across the top of the track is scary. It’s an open road, only closed for race events. It’s a demanding track that requires PERFECTION all the time. One slip and it’s over

Bathurst is an Australian legend.

"The Greatest Motor Race Ever by Josh Revell is about the 2014 Bathurst 1000 and is a great watch, which I highly recommend checking out!

Watching this is something worth the time to watch...........

That guy was a race car driver back in the day and that race is held once a year and it's a 161 lap race so yeah