{"id":608475,"date":"2026-09-22T19:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:52:24","slug":"rick-kelly-to-make-return-to-bathurst-in-great-race-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608475\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Kelly to make return to Bathurst in Great Race week"},"content":{"rendered":"

TWO-TIME Bathurst 1000 winner Rick Kelly is making a return to Bathurst during Great Race week, though not behind the wheel roaring around Mount Panorama.<\/p>\n

The now-retired 2006 V8 Supercars Champion will appear as part of Autobarn\u2019s Legends Night at Reckless Brewing on Thursday October 8.<\/p>\n

Kelly will join another two-time Bathurst 1000 winner in John Bowe<\/a>, two-time Bathurst 1000 pole-sitter Glenn Seton<\/a>, Tickford Racing co-owner and former driver Rod Nash and motoring writer John Smailes for the evening.<\/p>\n

The event is presented by long-time V8 Sleuth partner Castrol.<\/p>\n

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The group will take part in a live Q&A at the free event, which kicks off at 6pm and features prizes and giveaways, as well as kids activities.<\/p>\n

No tickets are required for the event with Autobarn Accelerate Rewards Members receiving 10% off on the night by showing their membership card at the bar.<\/p>\n

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Kelly has largely stayed away from Supercars since he made the decision to retire from racing at the end of the 2020 season.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ranked seventh on the list of all-time ATCC\/Supercars Championship race starts with 580 in a two-decade-long career, Kelly has kept himself busy via the development of Trentham Waters Resort on the outskirts of Mildura.<\/p>\n

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He said in January 2026 that he didn\u2019t miss Supercars at all<\/a> and \u201cwanted to move into another industry that was a little bit less cutthroat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly won the 2003 Bob Jane<\/a> T-Marts Bathurst 1000 alongside Greg Murphy in a Kmart Commodore and backed it up alongside the Kiwi the following year.<\/p>\n

Kelly remains the youngest-ever winner of the Bathurst 1000; he was just 20 years and 268 days when he won the race in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO-TIME Bathurst 1000 winner Rick Kelly is making a return to Bathurst during Great Race week, though not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-608475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}