Bathurst Top 10 Shootout is CANCELLED for the first time in history due to torrential rain

The Top 10 shootout for the Bathurst 1000 was cancelled for the first time in history, after ‘loopy’ torrential rain battered the Mount Panorama circuit, making it unsafe for drivers.

Severe climate has lashed the mountain for the greatest a part of the final three days, with heavy downpours inflicting main floods throughout New South Wales.

Motorsport Australia officers spent over an hour deliberating whether or not to let the high 10 drivers from Friday’s first qualifying session take to the monitor to resolve their beginning order for Sunday’s race.

The Top 10 Shootout for the Bathurst 1000 was cancelled due to heavy rain

But it was deemed unsafe after the remaining Super2 and Toyota 86 sequence races have been additionally canned, with rivers of water operating on the monitor at occasions.

Organisers mentioned the shootout was ‘cancelled due to excessive climate, leaving the monitor in an unsafe situation for competitors’

It is the first time since the shootout was launched in 1978 that it has not gone forward.

‘Obviously, we had that massive downpour of rain, which had so much in it. There was lots of run off coming throughout the circuit,’ Supercars CEO Shane Howard mentioned.

Cam Waters will begin from pole place after topping the first qualifying session

Waters (entrance) and different drivers had to negotiate extremely troublesome situations on Friday

‘The officers gave it each likelihood they may with giving it some time to see if it improved, [they] truly tried to re-divert the place the major watercourse was approaching to the monitor itself.  

‘Unfortunately, it was simply an excessive amount of there and it wasn’t dissipating and it was simply taking pictures throughout the circuit, significantly at the exit of flip one actually unhealthy.

‘So the officers deemed it unsafe to compete and clearly we will’t compromise driver security. It’s terribly disappointing for everybody.’

The full beginning grid for the Bathurst 1000 was as an alternative selected the outcomes from first qualifying and it means Cam Waters will begin from pole.

But as rain continued to lash Mount Panorama, organisers determined to name off the Top 10 Shootout which was scheduled for Saturday

The 2022 Bathurst 1000 is forecasted to be the wettest on file 

It means Tickford Racing’s Waters will begin the Great Race from pole for a second time, having additionally secured the spot in 2020.

Waters mentioned he was dissatisfied to see the shootout cancelled however would favor to see the full subject out for Sunday’s race, relatively than have automobiles wrecked in the hazardous situations.

‘The rain was loopy and also you noticed the rivers and the whole lot occurring. It was going to be a little bit of a security factor,’ he instructed Fox Sports.

‘As quickly as you hit a river you aquaplane, you’ve got acquired no management over the automobile and you don’t need to be writing automobiles off the day earlier than the massive race. I’m dissatisfied however I believe officers have made the proper name.’

Supercars championship chief Shane van Gisbergen will begin from seventh place

Waters will probably be flanked on the entrance row by 2021 champion co-driver Lee Holdsworth, who is taking part in his remaining race round Mt Panorama.

Holdsworth’s successful accomplice Chaz Mostert traces up third, with Supercars championship chief Shane van Gisbergen dropping from fourth to seventh after a three-grid-spot penalty was utilized to his automobile at the finish of the first qualifying session.

Erebus Motorsports’ three entries are all in the high 10 with Richie Stanaway fourth, Brodie Kostecki ninth and Will Brown tenth.

The Bathurst 1000 begins at 11.15am AEDT on Sunday.