Team CoolDrive Bathurst Preview
5 Oct, 2017
TRACK TIMES
Thursday 5th October
9:45 - 10:45 – Practice One – All Drivers
12:35 - 13:35 – Practice Two – Co-Drivers
14:45 - 15:45 – Practice Three – All Drivers
Friday 6th October
8:45 - 9:45 – Practice Four – Co-Drivers
11:40 - 12:40 – Practice Five – All Drivers
15:50 - 16:30 – Qualifying
Saturday 7th October
10:10 - 11:10 – Practice Six – All Drivers
17:10 - 17:55 – Top Ten Shootout
Sunday 8th October
8:05 - 8:25 – Warm Up
9:05 - 9:20 – Drivers Parade
11:10 – Bathurst 1000 / 161 Laps
FAST FACTS
- Track Length – 6.2km // Direction – Anti-Clockwise // Average Speed – 178km/h // Top Speed - 305km/h
- Qualifying Lap Record – 2m05.0481s, Jamie Whincup, Triple Eight Race Engineering, 2016, Holden Commodore VF
- Race Lap Record – 2m06.2769s, David Reynolds, Erebus Motorsport, 2016, Holden Commodore VF - Tim has his career best Bathurst 1000 result last year – 10th with Macauley Jones.
- Last year there were 6 Safety Car periods totalling 19 laps affected by the Safety Car.
- Tim has never had the same co-driver in his Bathurst assaults. Todd Hazelwood is the 7th!
- After the spectacular crash during the Sandown 500 co-driver Race for the Grid, which Todd Hazelwood luckily walked away from; Tim and Todd will have the newest chassis of the Supercar field here at Bathurst – BJR-009.
- Todd Hazelwood is making his Bathurst 1000 debut here – 1 of 4 rookies in the field!
- Todd will be getting a pre-Bathurst warm-up, competing in the 250km Super2 Series race on Saturday. In previous years, he’s finished 6th and 2 x 5th in these races!
MEET TIM & TODD
Wednesday 4th October
12:15 - 13:00 – Supercars Autograph Session – Kings Park (Church Street)
Friday 6th October
14:15 - 14:45 – Supercars Autograph Session – Team CoolDrive Garage
Saturday 7th October
12:45 - 12:45 – Supercars Autograph Session – Team CoolDrive Garage
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