BOOK: BATHURST 60 YEARS OF THE GREAT RACE BY STEVE NORMOYLE

Gelding Street Press| 5 July 2023 | $39.99 | Hardcover – A pictorial history of the Bathurst classic motor race

The gruelling Bathurst 1000 is a race like no other: from the early days 60 years ago when ordinary road cars were pitted against one another in the toughest test imaginable to today’s ultra-professional Supercars. It’s the Melbourne Cup of Australian motor racing.

Every one of those first 60 years is captured here in great pictures and fast-moving anecdotes.

Follow all the legends – Brock, Moffat, Lowndes, Johnson, Skaife, Perkins, Grice, Whincup, Murphy, McLaughlin, Van Gisbergen – and many more – around the Mount Panorama circuit.

With over 300 colour photos of the stars of motorsport and classic Gelding Street Press design, this is a book every Australian with petrol in their veins should have on their bookshelf.

Bathurst: 60 Years of the Great Race by Steve Normoyle (Gelding Street Press $39.99) is available at all good bookstores

All images © Chevron Publishing Group, a division of nextmedia Pty Ltd and John Morris/Mpix Photography-Velocity Magazine 

Steve Normoyle is currently the editor of the motoring and Bathurst racing bible Australian MUSCLE CAR magazine. He is a long-time motorsport enthusiast with over 40 years’ experience as a motoring and motorsport journalist. He rose to the role of editor of Motor Racing Australia and Motorsport News magazines, and he compiled most of the Australian Touring Car Championship race programs during the 90s and 2000s.  He is one of Australia’s pre-eminent motorsport historians and has reported on the Bathurst 1000 for over three decades.

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