Bathurst support categories revealed

Four leading categories will take centre stage at next month’s Repco Bathurst 1000.

The schedule for this year’s Great Race weekend was released on Wednesday.

The event, which will be held on October 6-9, will be headlined by the 161-lap Bathurst 1000.

Tickets for the event are on sale now.

Supercars will again be supported by the Dunlop Series and Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia.

The Haltech V8 SuperUtes Series and Heritage Revival category complete the line-up.

The Dunlop Series will make its 23rd appearance at Mount Panorama.

The 2021 series was decided in Bathurst last December, with Broc Feeney clinching the title.

Eight drivers in the Super2 field will compete in Sunday’s Great Race.

Of the seven, six will make their debut - Declan Fraser, Matt Payne, Cameron Hill, Aaron Seton, Matt Chahda and Jaylyn Robotham.

Chahda and Robotham will combine in an all-Super2 family-run wildcard entry.

Super2 and Super3 drivers will race on the Friday and Saturday of the event for points.

Fraser leads Tickford Racing driver Zak Best, who will also make his second Great Race start.

Best will race with Thomas Randle, with Fraser to line-up with seven-time Bathurst winner Craig Lowndes.

Carrera Cup will also return to Mount Panorama, having previously featured for over a decade.

A number of drivers in the Carrera Cup field will also race in the Repco Bathurst 1000.

V8 SuperUtes and Heritage Revival will race on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the event.

The Heritage Revival category is part of event celebrations for both Bathurst and title sponsor Repco.

This year’s Great Race comes on the 50th anniversary of Peter Brock’s maiden win.

Brock won the 1972 race aboard a Holden Torana XU-1.

Repco, which is sponsoring the Bathurst 1000 for a second time, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

A vast array of cars from different eras are expected to line-up in the Heritage Revival category.