{"id":913035,"date":"2026-10-02T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913035\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:22:13","slug":"supercars-stars-to-face-driver-test-before-bathurst-1000-participation-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913035\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars stars to face driver test before Bathurst 1000 participation 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DRIVERS in the Repco Bathurst 1000 are this year needing to pass an online test before taking to the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mandatory measure is among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/safety-recommendations-adopted-for-bathurst-6-hour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">safety recommendations that have been adopted by Motorsport Australia<\/a> specific to Mount Panorama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have already been a couple of jarring crashes at the iconic circuit in 2026, including one in the 12 Hour that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/mercedes-driver-suffers-broken-back-in-bathurst-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left Ralf Aron with a broken back<\/a>, and a controversial incident under yellow flags at the 6 Hour involving Grant Denyer and Richard Barram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A test comprising 31 questions was distributed to Supercars teams on Wednesday this week for their respective drivers to complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Bathurst 1000 Preview | The Undercut<\/p>\n<p>IT\u2019S the biggest show of the season \u2013 The Undercut is back, previewing the 2026 Repco Bathurst 1000, with the V8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan joined in the studio by two of the stars of the big day \u2013 Jack Perkins and James Moffat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll Drivers Competing at this Event must complete the Motorsport Australia Driver Licence Refresher Test prior to the Event,\u201d reads a section of the Further Supplementary Regulations for Bathurst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo pass this test, you must get a result of 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going forward it is expected that Bathurst 12 Hour and 6 Hour competitors will also need to pass this test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Track action at the \u20181000 starts next Thursday, October 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-subscription?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sleuth-mag-sub.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRIVERS in the Repco Bathurst 1000 are this year needing to pass an online test before taking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-913035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}