Motor race in Australia
The 2005 Supercheap Auto 1000 was an endurance motor race for V8 Supercars . The race was held on 9 October 2005 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales , Australia and was Round 10 of the 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series . It was the ninth running of the Australia 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997 . It was the 48th in a sequence of endurance races which commenced with the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island and 2005 was the 43rd year in which these races had been run at the Mount Panorama Circuit . It was also the first to be run under new naming rights sponsor, Australian automotive retail chain Super Cheap Auto .
The race was won by Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly of the Holden Racing Team . It was the seventh consecutive win by a Holden, the longest such streak in the combined history of the Bathurst 1000. It was the Holden Racing Team's fifth Bathurst victory and Skaife's fifth win as well. Kelly followed his younger brother Rick as a Bathurst winner, becoming the 50th driver to claim victory.
Skaife took the lead with 20 laps to go over the Tasman Motorsport Commodore of Jason Richards .
Greg Murphy and Marcos Ambrose came in contact at the Cutting with 16 laps to go. The two drivers argued heatedly after the collision.
Entry list
Qualifying
Qualifying
Top Ten Shootout
The fastest ten cars from Qualifying contested a single lap shootout to determine the first ten grid positions for the race.
Starting grid
The following table represents the final starting grid for the race on Sunday:
Race results
Jason Bright and David Brabham placed 14th driving a Ford BA Falcon Craig Lowndes and Yvan Muller placed 15th driving a Ford BA Falcon Marcos Ambrose and Warren Luff did not finish in a Ford BA Falcon Paul Morris and Paul Radisich did not finish in a Holden VZ Commodore
Statistics
Provisional Pole – #888 Craig Lowndes – 2:07.1322
Pole Position – #888 Craig Lowndes – 2:07.4221
Fastest Lap – #2 Mark Skaife – 2:08.6515 (173.86 km/h) on lap 95 – new outright record[ 7]
Average Speed – 151 km/h
Broadcast
Network 10 broadcast the race for the ninth consecutive year, dating back to the 1997 5.0L race .
References
^ "V8 Supercars - Bathurst 1000: Practice Day Two" . Getty Images . 7 October 2005.^ "V8 Supercars - Bathurst 1000: Qualifying" . Getty Images . 8 October 2005.^ http://racing.natsoft.com.au/637876958/object_286568.85h/Result?17 [permanent dead link ^ Top Ten Shoot Out, racing.natsoft.com.au Archived 9 April 2014 at archive.today Retrieved on 9 April 2014^ a b c d e Super Cheap Auto 1000 race result at www.natsoft.com.au Archived 28 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 June 2012^ Grant Rowley, Master Plan, The Annual – Australian Motorsport, Number 1 / 2005, pages 30-31
^ a b c Race results, The Great Race 2005, page 233
^ Image of car 11, The Great Race 2005, page 162
^ Image of car 24, The Great Race 2005, page 111
External links
Phillip Island 500 Bathurst 500 Bathurst 1000 Australia 1000
