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Questionable programming decisions have made Speed the television network equivalent of bacon-flavored tampons. So it's news when they make a great choice like broadcasting the Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercars race on October 8th. More »
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The driver of this Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 spun out at Mt. Panorama during the big Bathurst Motorsports Festival last weekend and hit the wall. The damage wasn't too bad. And then these fellas showed up to tow it away. More »
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Jenson Button's run around Australia's famed Bathurst track last week was captured from every angle — including the nose cone of his McLaren-Mercedes F1 car. It's like a scouting mission for getting Mount Panorama in Gran Turismo 6. More »
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Earlier today, Jenson Button tackled Australia's famed Bathurst course in a McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 car — the first time an F1 car had run the mountainous route. Button promptly shaved 18 seconds off its record time. More »
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Here's the late, great Tom Walkinshaw flinging his Jaguar V12 XJS around Mt. Panorama in qualifying for the James Hardie 1000. Being out at the limit around Bathurst is one of the reasons the Scot was so loved in Australia. More »
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Scroggs just keeps finding us the great vintage racing videos! How about the final race in Can Am's first season, followed by the Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst? More »
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=308614&view=rss&microfeed=true In Australia, there are many wonderous things — utes, sheilas, The Great Barrier Reef, Paul Hogan and road trains — not to mention a rather abundant diversity of marsupials. Some of these marsupials are kangaroos. Sometimes, kangaroos end up where they're not supposed to be, such as on the track at Bathurst during a motor racing competition. More »
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Oh, to be in Australia April 13th through 16th. More specifically, to be at Mount Panorama for the Bathurst International Motor Festival. Featuring static displays and hot laps by some of the most renowed cars in Australian motorsports history, from a 1935 Sulman Singer GP car to a '92 Nissan Skyline GT-R with all manner of Fords, Holdens and Chryslers in between, well, we'd just kinda geek out. Besides Canada, Oz is really the only nation with a motoring history much like our own, only totally different and on the wrong side of the road. Plus, they never gave up on the V-8/rear-drive idea, which to us makes them even more heroic. More »
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