THIS WEEK: iRacing Bathurst 1000 presented by Next Level Racing | Special Event
September 28th, 2026 by Justin Melillo
iRacing’s Special Event calendar features a selection of the world’s most compelling races across numerous disciplines. Whether you’re interested in stock cars or sports cars, open-wheel formula cars or sprint cars, sticking to pavement or playing in the dirt, running solo or racing with a team of your closest friends, our Special Events have something for everyone!
This week, the iRacing Bathurst 1000 Presented by Next Level Racing takes the spotlight with the Gen 3 Supercars from Australia going up and down the mountain at Mount Panorama for 1000 kilometers in this team racing endurance event.
Here’s everything you need to know about participating in this iRacing Special Event.
TRACK: MOUNT PANORAMA CIRCUIT
CARS COMPETING:
BROADCAST DETAILS
There will be a broadcast of the Top Split broadcast for the third time slot, the Saturday 12:00 GMT, or Saturday 8 a.m. ET event. RACESPOT will be handling the call of the action. The show will be available at iRacing.com/live.
TIMES TO RACE
- Timeslot #1: Saturday at 03:00 GMT on the Australian servers (11:00 p.m. ET Friday night OR 1:00 p.m. AEST Saturday)
- Timeslot #2: Saturday at 7:00 GMT (3:00 a.m. ET)
- Timeslot #3: Saturday at 12:00 GMT (8:00 a.m. ET) <- BROADCASTED SPLIT
- Timeslot #4: Saturday at 16:00 GMT (12:00 p.m. ET)
- Timeslot #5: Sunday at 00:00 GMT (8:00 p.m. ET Saturday)
ABOUT THE 2026 iRACING BATHURST 1000
The Bathurst 1000 is staged at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales. Regarded as the pinnacle of Australian motorsport, it’s the biggest event on the Supercars calendar.
This weekend, from October 2nd to the 4th, iRacing members can sign up with a team to take on Mount Panorama Circuit for a 1000 kilometer endurance in the iRacing team racing format. This race is an open setup event and will be scheduled in the sim for October 11th at 10:50 AM. Dynamic weather is enabled as well. Please plan accordingly with your team for the 161 lap event!
Participating teams are required to declare their drivers at registration. A team is officially eligible at a minimum of two drivers, and up to a maximum of 16 drivers. With fair share enabled, all declared drivers will have to meet a threshold of laps in conjunction with the team’s total laps for the entry to be legal by the end of the event. Registration opens 60 minutes prior, and sessions will include both a 30 minute warmup and an eight minute, two lap qualifying session. Splits are determined by iRating.
This event is open to iRacing members that have a Sports Car license at Class C or higher, or at Class D with a 4.0 Safety Rating. Splits can have up to 30 teams, and a disqualification limit has been set at 150 incident points, or 150X per team. Stop and Go penalties will be administered after 50 incidents, or 50X, and every 20 incidents (20X) afterward until the limit is reached and disqualification occurs. More details are available on the iRacing Forum post here.
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ABOUT MOUNT PANORAMA CIRCUIT
One of the world’s legendary motor racing circuits, Australia’s Mount Panorama (aka Bathurst) is a throwback to an era when most motorsports events were staged on public roads. Located outside of Bathurst, New South Wales, the 4 mile (6.213 km) Mount Panorama Circuit serves as public roadways when not being used for racing: indeed many adjacent business and residential properties can only be accessed using the roads comprising the circuit.
The circuit embodies many of the characteristics of history’s great open road courses, including steep grades and substantial elevation changes (there is a 570 ft/174 meter vertical difference between its high and low points), flowing sequences of challenging, distinctively-named bends like Hell Corner, The Dipper and Forrest’s Elbow, and dramatic vistas for spectators.
Mount Panorama was originally carved out of the hills around Bathurst in the 1930s. Through a national employment relief effort during The Depression, local and federal government developed what had been a dirt-track/tourist drive into a race track. Mount Panorama’s first event was staged in April 1938 and – apart from the years during World War II – the circuit has been in regular use ever since. Historically, the race track has been used for a wide variety of racing categories, including everything from open-wheel racers to motorcycles. In recent years Mount Panorama has been best known as home of the Bathurst 12 Hour sports car race and the Bathurst 1000, a signature event in the Supercar Series.
To learn more about the event and join in on the discussion, visit our Special Events page and head over to the iRacing Forums.
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