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looks like you guys will get to see the Bathurst 1000 live this year
NASCAR Legend To Lead SPEED’s Bathurst Team

Source: BigPond Sport

THREE-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip is coming to Australia for the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

Waltrip, a recent inductee into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, will be part of SPEED’s commentary team that is winging its way ‘Down Under’ to cover the big race on October 8.

Waltrip, famous for his race-starting TV call of ‘boogidy, boogidy, boogidy, let’s go racing boys!’ will be joined by NASCAR FOX co-commentator Mike Joy, Aussie Leigh Diffey and former racer Calvin Fish in pit lane.

Waltrip and Joy are household names in the US for their work on FOX’s NASCAR coverage and both featured in the original ‘Cars’ animated movie as well as ‘Talladega Nights’.

“I’ve watched some of their races on SPEED and it’s some of the best racing I have ever seen,” Waltrip said of V8 Supercars.

“It is some of the most aggressive road course racing I have ever watched ... these guys don’t mess around. They race the entire race like the last 10 laps of a Cup race and I just watch with my jaw hanging open.”

SPEED will beam the race live back into the United States, complete with its own graphics package, and will also telecast the Armor All Gold Coast 600 live a fortnight later.

The signature events will also be broadcast live in Australia on Seven and live in full high definition on 7mate across the country, as well as in full HD throughout North America.

V8 Supercars Chairman Tony Cochrane says that having SPEED’s crew in Australia is a ringing endorsement for the series.

“These guys are the absolute best of the best,” Cochrane said.

“In North America and world motorsport these guys are seriously big names.

“Their voices are synonymous with sport and having them here is as much a coup as getting the very best drivers to come out, as we have also done for the Gold Coast 600.”

here is a little history on bathurst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Bd3...eature=related
The History On Bathurst with Neil Crompton - YouTube