Bathurst weather

Flood warnings have also been put in place just two weeks after heavy rain resulted in some of the local campsites ending up under water. However, Supercars ...

We thank our fans who have arrived at Mount Panorama and look forward to four memorable days at the Repco Bathurst 1000.” We will act accordingly to ensure the safety of patrons and competitors at all times. “The Repco Bathurst 1000, one of Australia’s premier outdoor sporting events will be proceeding as planned this weekend,” Supercars CEO Shane Howard said.

If you think the rain so far has been bad, forecasters are predicting we haven't see anything yet. And a major sporting event is at risk.

Bathurst is forecast to have rainfall totals of 60-100mm between now and Sunday with Saturday the soggiest day. The wettest day is likely to be Sunday with up to 10mm falling. Melbourne will have some heavier showers on Friday with 15mm potentially coming down, and 3-8mm on Thursday. Eastern SA, western NSW and western Vic saw heavy rain overnight and the system is now heading east. “And this is before the forecast rainfall has even occurred. On Thursday 15-20mm is possible. And it’s only likely to get bigger as the weekend rain front moves in. Canberra is looking at 15-20mm on Thursday, up to 30mm on Friday and a further 15-40mm on the weekend. Stream more weather news live & on demand with Flash. This thing is enormous. 25+ news channels in 1 place. And then on the weekend the

Superstar crashes early as 'pretty scary' weather causes chaos in first Bathurst practice — LIVE.

Strong buried his Commodore VE into - and underneath - the tyre barrier in a scary crash, immediately causing the session to be stopped. When you add the water you add a heap of blokes, you add Craig Lowndes, David Reynolds, you add Andre Heimgartner, Will Brown, Brodie Kostecki, even Richie Stanaway is excellent in the rain. A rogue wheel - more on that below - delivered an entertaining moment of the Dunlop series’ first practice session on Thursday morning. This has been a problem we’ve had in the past so we’ve got ways of curing it.” It’s something we need to get in and try and get on top with pretty quickly and we can.” but that would normally either destroy it on the left hand side or ricochet to the right side fence. You’re never going to get away with that in a race. Mark Skaife said on Fox Sports: “He got away with that, he damaged the car... Will Davison went fastest by .016s with a 2:04.3691s in his Shell V-Power Racing Team over surprise package James Golding of Premi-Air Racing, with the top half-dozen drivers delivering very close times. His time was only good enough for 24th of the 28 competitors. Tander’s rapid lap put him ahead of David Russell’s 2:04.238s in the Erebus Motorsport Commodore ZB (co-driving for Brodie Kostecki). Jordan Boys, co-driver for Macauley Jones, over-ran the first corner and took the escape road without harm.

Rainfall is expected to impact this weekend's Bathurst 1000 race with Bathurst facing more than 60 millimetres of rain over the weekend.