Bathurst in NSW is a remarkable and historic city. It is Australia’s oldest inland city and it has evolved from a settlement driven by convicts and their military overseers.
It is now a hugely successful service centre for the surrounding rich agricultural area and a major administrative centre. Also, most recently, it is an important regional academic centre. There are a number of prominent schools and the main campus of Charles Sturt University. So successful has Charles Sturt’s Media course been that now both broadcasting and print journalism are dominated by its graduates.
But Bathurst is more than this.
It boasts:
It is also the home to the country’s most prestigious motor race – the Bathurst 1000.
Visit Bathurst in October, when this city of elegant architecture, parks and culture, goes high octane with the running of the Bathurst 1000 race on the world’s most dramatic motor racing circuit.
Thousands of people make the pilgrimage to Mount Panorama to see the legends of past and future. Cars, teams, and drivers will push themselves to the limits, to be immortalised at this iconic race.
It is the ultimate battleground – where a 1000km endurance race on an unforgiving mountainous track is won and lost in the last lap.
Spectators are there for the power, the noise and the heart stopping atmosphere. Across four thrilling days of racing action two drivers and one team will stand atop the podium to claim their place in motorsport history.