2021 Bathurst 1000

The 2021 Bathurst 1000 was a motor racing event for Supercars held on the week of 30 November to 5 December 2021. It was held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia and featured a single 1000 kilometre race. The event was the final race of the Supercars Championship and the first time that Genuine Parts Company served as the naming rights sponsor.

Report

Background

The event was the 64th running of the Bathurst 1000, which was first held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in 1960 as a 500-mile race for Australian-made standard production sedans, and marks the 61st time that the race was held at Mount Panorama. It was the 25th running of the Australian 1000 race, which was first held after the organisational split between the Australian Racing Drivers Club and V8 Supercars Australia that saw two "Bathurst 1000" races contested in both 1997 and 1998.
Due to a COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney in mid-2021, the event was pushed back to December for the first time in its history. Following the cancellation of the Bathurst International event for Australian Racing Group categories, the event duration was extended; beginning on Tuesday November 30th to account for the extra sessions.
Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander were the defending race winners, they continued to race in the same car.

Entry list

Twenty-five cars entered the event - 17 Holden Commodores and eight Ford Mustangs. In addition to the 24 regular entries, a single wildcard entry was entered from Triple Eight Race Engineering, for Russell Ingall and Broc Feeney. Zak Best was the only driver to make his debut in the race for Tickford Racing.
Entries with a grey background are wildcard entries which do not compete in the full championship season.

Broadcast

The event telecast was produced by Supercars Media and carried domestically by Fox Sports Australia, a paid service which covered all sessions including support categories, and the Seven Network, which covered select sessions from midday Friday onwards. Prior to the start of the season, the Seven Network had regained the rights to broadcast select rounds free-to-air for the first time since 2014 as part of a five-year deal. In New Zealand the sessions were shown by paid service Sky Sport, whilst internationally the broadcast was available through the series' pay-per-view service SuperView.

Fox Sports	Seven Network
Host: Jessica Yates Booth: Neil Crompton, Mark Skaife Pit-lane: Mark Larkham, Chad Neylon, Charli Robinson, Greg Rust Supports: Richard Craill, Matt Naulty, Chad Neylon	Presenters: Mark Beretta, Abbey Gelmi Pundit: Jack Perkins Roving: Emma Freedman, Chris Stubbs Brad Hodge