The Great Race 1960 - 2015

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Runtime: 60 minutes

Episode Overview

A fabulous era in Australian motor sport commenced at Phillip Island, Victoria, with the 1960 Armstrong 500 for production cars. The endurance race moved from the Island to Mount Panorama, Bathurst in 1963. This video details the first seven years of Australia’s Greatest Motor Race and makes compulsive viewing and is, indeed, a collector’s item.

Series Overview

They call it The Great Race, and surely there can be no better description of the annual October Bathurst 1000 touring car endurance race. This mammoth DVD Box Set covers the first six decades of The Great Race, Tracing it’s origins at Phillip Island in 1960, the move to Bathurst three years later and the rapid evolution of the event into the nation-stopping Australian sporting icon it is today. This box set is the ultimate argument settler for any Bathurst fan.