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| Round 10 of 13 in the2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | 6–9 October 2005 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Bathurst,New South Wales | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Mount Panorama Circuit | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Overcast | |||||||||||||
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The2005 Supercheap Auto 1000 was an endurance motor race forV8 Supercars. The race was held on 9 October 2005 at theMount Panorama Circuit just outsideBathurst inNew South Wales,Australia and was Round 10 of the2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was the ninth running of the Australia 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over theBathurst 1000 that occurred in1997. It was the 48th in a sequence of endurance races which commenced with the1960 Armstrong 500 held atPhillip Island and 2005 was the 43rd year in which these races had been run at theMount Panorama Circuit. It was also the first to be run under new naming rights sponsor, Australian automotive retail chainSuper Cheap Auto.
The race was won byMark Skaife andTodd Kelly of theHolden Racing Team. It was the seventh consecutive win by a Holden, the longest such streak in the combined history of the Bathurst 1000. It was the Holden Racing Team's fifth Bathurst victory and Skaife's fifth win as well. Kelly followed his younger brotherRick as a Bathurst winner, becoming the 50th driver to claim victory.
Skaife took the lead with 20 laps to go over theTasman Motorsport Commodore ofJason Richards.
Greg Murphy andMarcos Ambrose came in contact at the Cutting with 16 laps to go. The two drivers argued heatedly after the collision.
The fastest ten cars from Qualifying contested a single lap shootout to determine the first ten grid positions for the race.
| Pos.[4] | No. | Team | Driver | Car | Time |
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| 1 | 888 | Triple Eight Race Engineering |  Craig Lowndes | Ford Falcon BA | 2:08.5990 |
| 2 | 1 | Stone Brothers Racing | Marcos Ambrose | Ford Falcon BA | 2:08.8571 |
| 3 | 51 | Paul Weel Racing |  Greg Murphy | Holden Commodore VZ | 2:09.1834 |
| 4 | 2 | Holden Racing Team | Mark Skaife | Holden Commodore VZ | 2:09.3787 |
| 5 | 16 | HSV Dealer Team | Garth Tander | Holden Commodore VZ | 2:09.6648 |
| 6 | 24 | Perkins Engineering | Steven Richards | Holden Commodore VY | 2:09.8170 |
| 7 | 3 | Tasman Motorsport | Jason Richards | Holden Commodore VZ | 2:12.2092 |
| 8 | 18 | Dick Johnson Racing | Glenn Seton | Ford Falcon BA | 2:19.6014 |
| 9 | 22 | Holden Racing Team | Jim Richards | Holden Commodore VZ | 2:20.1202 |
| 10 | 9 | Stone Brothers Racing | Russell Ingall | Ford Falcon BA | DNF |
The following table represents the final starting grid for the race on Sunday:
Network 10 broadcast the race for the ninth consecutive year, dating back to the1997 5.0L race.
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| Host:Bill Woods Booth:Neil Crompton,Leigh Diffey Pit-lane:Daryl Beattie,Mark Howard,Greg Rust |
| Supercars Championship | ||
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| Previous race: 2005 Betta Electrical 500 | 2005 Supercars Championship | Next race: 2005 Gilette V8 Supercar Challenge |
| Previous year: 2004 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 | Bathurst 1000 | Next year: 2006 Supercheap Auto 1000 |
