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All rights reserved. The category's Best and Fairest prize is traditionally presented at the Gala Awards, the Monday night after the final round of the season. Australian Muscle Car looks at the 1997 and 1998 Bathurst 1000 winners. The category's Best and Fairest prize is traditionally presented at the Gala Awards, the Monday night after the final round of the season. “There are many races you think of when you look back, like when you win the championship it’s always great,” said Rydell to TouringCarTimes. 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It’s everything between a street circuit and a normal circuit, with long straights, all different kinds of corners.”. 1994 Bathurst 1000 1996 Bathurst 1000 support 1997 Bathurst 1000 1998 Bathurst 1000 1999 Bathurst … Voted by a media panel, the Barry Sheene Medal recognises sportsmanship, leadership, fan appeal and media prowess. It was a long race and a good fight all throughout the race.”. It was van Gisbergen's 40th Supercars career win and the 34th time a Holden car has won at Mount Panorama. Rydell had just won the BTCC in perhaps the most competitive season in the Super Touring era. Nissan wouldn’t return to the Bathurst 1000 until they joined the V8 Supercars Championship in 2013, and Volvo made its return just last season, and in the early stages was a clear threat for the victory at Mount Panorama, with Scott McLaughlin and Alex Prémat in the #33 Volvo S60, until typical Bathurst dramas saw them in the wall with damage just a few laps from the end. I just wish my mum and dad were here.". While van Gisbergen took the chequered flag, it was a disastrous day for star Triple Eight teammate Jamie Whincup, who crashed out on lap-33. Shane van Gisbergen is finally a Bathurst 1000 winner, after he and Garth Tander took a thrilling Great Race victory in Holden's final event as a factory team in Supercars. “All year I’d been competing against the Nissan, which was really quick, and near the end there was a safety car and the Nissan was just behind, but we managed to win the race just ahead of them. “First of all, Bathurst is No.1 on my list of all tracks ever that I’ve driven on. Not even two safety cars being called in the final nine laps could derail van Gisbergen's charge towards glory. The last few laps with the safety cars were really tough," he said. The New Zealander's previous best result at Bathurst was second in 2016 and 2019, while veteran Tander had previously tasted the ultimate success in 2000, 2009 and 2011. This was the last race for the Super Tourers at the Bathurst 1000, with the V8 Supercars Championship hosting the only Bathurst 1000 from 1999 onwards, and arguably the last time that BTCC and Australian drivers took part in the race on equal terms. It was the 41st race that traces its lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island. During the final laps, Rydell was hounded by Neal’s Nissan Primera, with traffic playing a key role with the top BTCC-specification cars often coming across much slowers cars which managed to hold up both drivers. “I was also racing with Jim Richards who is a legend in Australia and a really, really nice guy as well. The 1998 FAI 1000 Classic was the second running of the Australia 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 the previous year. James Phelps recaps a fitting finale to … While Alain Menu had won the championship the previous year in the Williams Renault Laguna, that car was considered the best car to have that year, and in the following year Laurent Aiello would run away with the championship in the RML-developed Nissan Primera. Shane van Gisbergen has secured a memorable Supercars victory for Holden in the iconic Australian motoring brand's final Bathurst 1000. In teaming up with, now four-times winner … Craig Lowndes holds the record for the most wins with five, while Scott McLaughlin, David Reynolds and Jamie Whincup are locked in second with two apiece. This year's Bathurst 1000 was the perfect realisation of Shane van Gisbergen's comment in his pre-race interview with the Weekend Herald.From the time the … What does Honda's departure mean for Red Bull and F1? Race Results. Chaz Mostert, who won a dramatic Bathurst 1000 in 2014 driving a Ford, ensured four Holden drivers stood on the podium by coming third - with co-driver Warren Luff. You can watch extended highlights of the 1998 AMP Bathurst 1000 below: © 2020 TouringCarTimes. "It's a great way to send out Holden. The ’98 Bathurst 1000 winner, coming soon from Apex. In the latest of our famous races series, we talk to 1998 British Touring Car champion Rickard Rydell about the year in which he won “The Great Race”, the AMP Bathurst 1000km in October 1998, the year of his BTCC title, sharing a Tom Walkinshaw Racing Volvo S40 with Jim Richards in the most famous touring car race in the world. 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Shane van Gisbergen is finally a Bathurst 1000 winner, he and Garth Tander taking a thrilling Great Race victory in Holden's final race as a factory team in … While 1.5 seconds would cover the top 15 cars in the 2014 event’s qualifying session, the gap seemed pretty destructive after qualifying back in 1998, but fortunately for the viewers, a close race was still in prospect, as the Team Dynamics Nissan of Neal and Rydell’s team-mate’s son would prove to be a very real threat. The result means Commodores have won five of the past six Bathurst 1000s, with only Scott McLaughlin (2019) saluting for Ford since 2015. Heading to the last Super Touring Bathurst 1000 however, with the V8 Supercars Championship in its infancy and hosting its own Bathurst 1000 race just over a month later, Rydell was optimistic of his chances. In paying tribute to the brand, van Gisbergen stuck a Holden flag in his car as he completed his victory lap. Date Venue Series; 04 Oct 1998: Mount Panorama: Bathurst 1000: Related Series. "It's just awesome. Stay on current site or go to US version. In teaming up with, now four-times winner Garth Tander, van Gisbergen conquered Mount Panorama for the first time to claim the 161-lap enduro on Sunday. “Just going there with a road car before the race and looking down from the top of the Dipper and looking back at the track it’s just amazing to think we’re going to race here. Rydell meanwhile returns to racing this year with the Swedish NIKA Racing team with a new challenge, driving a Honda Civic in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, while his close rival from the 1998 Bathurst 1000, Matt Neal, is set to continue with his family-run team, also competing with Honda in the British Touring Car Championship. Supercars is expected to crown its Barry Sheene Medal winner on the podium after the Bathurst 1000. Has F1's engine 'party mode' ban actually helped Mercedes? Rydell would cross the line after 161 laps, and 6 hours and 54 minutes of racing as the winner, just under two seconds clear of Neal’s Primera, with the Audi A4 of Brad Jones and Cameron McConville the only other car to finish on the same lap, and with just 18 cars classified of the 42 that started the race. In the latest of our famous races series, we talk to 1998 British Touring Car champion Rickard Rydell about the year in which he won “The Great Race”, the AMP Bathurst 1000km in October 1998, the year of his BTCC title, sharing a Tom Walkinshaw Racing Volvo S40 with Jim Richards in the most famous touring car race in the world. However, with Australia's strict COVID-19 protocols putting the brakes on mass gatherings, there are plans for the medal winner to instead be crowned on the Bathurst podium as part of the Great Race celebrations. But he was still able to celebrate his third-straight Supercars championship after he clinched the title at last month's round at Tailem Bend. Apex Replicas has revealed photos of the 1:18 prototype for the 1998 Bathurst winning EL Falcon of Jason Bright & Steven Richards. In 1998, the cars were much closer, with TWR’s Volvo S40 closely matched by the Nissan, and Prodrive’s Honda and the Lagunas of Jason Plato and Alain Menu. The Red Bull champion held off numerous fierce passing attempts from Ford's Cameron Waters, who started the great race in pole position. Defending champion McLaughlin finished fifth in what could be the Ford superstar's last race in Australia before he begins an IndyCar career. “In the race though, we weren’t that much faster,” he added. Remembering Jochen Rindt, 50 years on from his death at Monza, Ferrari has gone through the five stages of grief in 12 months, What to expect from Bahrain's outer circuit. Was Hamilton's Russian Grand Prix penalty fair? Shane van Gisbergen has secured a memorable Supercars victory for Holden in the iconic Australian motoring brand's final Bathurst 1000. The iconic Holden bowed out in style at Bathurst, bringing to an end a 52-year racing feud between two great rivals. Rydell, whose career spans stints in the BTCC during its Super Touring heyday, the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship when it was at its prime just three years ago, as well as the World Touring Car Championship, which he returns to this season at the wheel of a Honda Civic, remembers his two drives at Mount Panorama most fondly, in particular his second run at Mount Panorama in 1998, where he won the race ahead of the Team Dynamics Nissan Primera of Steven Richards and Matt Neal. 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