Supercars and Gravity Media has confirmed details of their partnership to deliver all-encompassing, all-screens coverage of this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000.
The undertaking is internationally acknowledged as one of the most significant and complex broadcasting projects in sports coverage. Across more than 175 television cameras on-track, in-car, in the pits, around the track, embedded in concrete kerbs and walls, in the air and across sections of the track on a wire, and accessing four state of the art high definition outside broadcast trucks, specialty in-car camera technology designed and developed by Gravity Media in Australia, 52 kilometres of broadcast cable and a total production crew of more than 250, Gravity Media and Supercars will capture every moment of Australia’s Great Race.
In a significant shift to its 2025 calendar, the Repco Bathurst 1000 will now serve as the final race of the Ryco Enduro Cup. Following the AirTouch 500 at The Bend, the two-race series will culminate at Bathurst, where the highest-scoring driver pair will be awarded the Cup and the primary driver of the pairing will also secure an automatic entry into the finals.
On the eve of the Repco Bathurst 1000 will be the Repco Bathurst 1000 Street Party, returning after its inaugural success in 2024, bringing all 27 Supercars of the great race from track into the heart of the city with Gravity Media providing 5-camera live coverage on Fox Sports and Kayo.
The Repco Bathurst 1000 will be broadcast on Fox Sports, Kayo Sports, the Seven Network and 7plus across October 9-12.
Coverage of this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 will be broadcast around the world via Supercars’ international broadcast partners, including Sky in New Zealand and SuperView on the Supercars website and YouTube for outside Australia and New Zealand.
Key production details for television coverage:
- Ten production trucks, including four high definition outside broadcast trucks driving the overall television production.
- More than 175 cameras across the track, in the pits, in and across cars, on driver helmets, mounted in race walls and track kerbs, including manned trackside, RF handheld and specialty extreme super slo-mo cameras, plus live helicopter coverage.
- Fifty two kilometres of television production cable and fibre, enough to lap the circuit more than eight times.
- Broadcast and production team of more than 250 across Gravity Media and Supercars Media.
“What makes the Bathurst 1000 unique is not just the race itself, but the way we bring it to life for audiences,” said Nathan Prendergast, head of broadcast at Supercars.
“With more than 175 cameras, state-of-the-art broadcast trucks and a world-class production crew, we can tell the story of every lap, every pit stop and every moment that matters.”
“As Australia’s largest and most complex broadcast production, the Repco Bathurst 1000 continues to inspire us to innovate and elevate what’s possible in live sports coverage. Partnering with Supercars, Gravity Media is proud to deliver a broadcast that matches the scale and intensity of the event itself,” said Ben Madgwick, sales director at Gravity Media in Australia.
More than 145 in-car cameras will be accessed across Repco Bathurst 1000 and other races across the weekend. This in-car camera technology was designed and developed by Gravity Media’s Globecam unit which is renowned for creating ground-breaking, high-definition digital miniature live broadcast devices that entertain and engage viewers all over the world with footage captured from exciting new angles and perspectives.
In addition to the broadcast partnership with Supercars, Gravity Media also provides the technology and systems for Supercars’ team radios, along with isolated camera coverage for the Gravity Media developed and bespoke Gravity Review System, used by the motorsports judiciary and race control in the management of every on-track moment in the Repco Bathurst 1000 and across every race in the Repco Supercars Championship.
Gravity Media’s broadcast facilities and technology collaboration with Supercars, which produces the global and Australian television coverage of the Repco Bathurst 1000, commenced in 2011.
Beyond the Repco Bathurst 1000, Gravity Media’s long-term partnership with Supercars also encompasses the television production of each of the rounds in the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship, including Gravity Media’s acknowledged specialty and in-car camera technologies.
