The National Motor Racing Museum celebrates the rich history of Australian motor sport, with a particular focus on Bathurst and Mount Panorama as the spiritual home of Australian motor racing.
The stories of drivers and events from the 1920s to the present are told through original trophies, race suits, leathers, race footage and photographs.
See many of the dominant machines that ran in Australian touring car, open wheeler, rally, motorcycle and speedway races. Take in one of our ever-changing exhibitions and experience the spectacular Immersive Room which gives visitors a taste of the speed, sound and excitement of racing at Mount Panorama.
It was twenty years ago that Peter Brock was killed in Western Australia, and a new exhibition at the National Motor Racing Museum is celebrating his distinguished career. Brock’s achievements made him a household name throughout the country, and even now, he is still one of the best-known drivers in Australian motorsport history.
Indelibly linked to the Bathurst 1000, and still considered the King of the Mountain, Peter Brock is the most successful driver to ever tackle the Great Race, with nine outright victories, including a remarkable run from 1975 to 1984, where he won seven times from ten starts. This period saw similar success at the Sandown enduro, with seven straight victories between 1975 and 1981, from a total of nine wins in the traditional lead up to the Bathurst 1000.
Featured vehicles in the exhibition include the Holden Monaro 427 that won the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour endurance race, completing a remarkable 527 laps, or 3274 km, after starting from 2nd position on the grid; and the Holden VB Commodore which took out the 1979 Repco Reliability Trial where competitors completed a 19,000km trek around Australia. This vehicle has been preserved in the same condition that it finished the race – dents, dust and all!
This exhibition celebrates Peter Brock’s career and incredible influence on the history of Australian motor sport, particularly at Mount Panorama, the location of so many of his most notable achievements. The exhibition remembers a legend of the sport, and a hero to so many race fans across the country.
The Immersive Room brings the sounds, sights and excitement of motor racing to life.
Filmed using our replica race cars on a closed Mount Panorama track, the experience surrounds you with the roar of the engines and the pace of the race.
Our collection includes 17 cars, 5 motorcycles and outfits, plus some 4,700 items ranging from programs, images and ephemera to trophies, helmets and racing suits.
Alongside this, the museum displays over 100 racing cars and motorcycles, plus trophies and photographs, thanks to dozens of private individuals and commercial groups such as Triple Eight Race Engineering, Bowden’s Own, Garry Rogers Motorsport, Brad Jones Racing, the Australian Racing Drivers Club, Craig Lowndes, Suzuki Australia, HONDA MPE, Holden Motorsport, Mazda Racing and Volvo Australia, who have all generously loaned exhibits.
Donated by Honda, this Lego model by Ryan “The Brickman” McNaught features over 150,000 bricks, and took eight builders 650 hours to create.
There’s all things Honda, from the then Honda Civic Type R, to first generation Honda Civics, motorcycles, lawnmowers and whipper-snippers, along with plenty of other fun details to discover – even a few motorised Esky riding race fans!
Museums Bathurst is a suite of public museums managed by Bathurst Regional Council, located on Wiradjuri Country. Museums Bathurst acknowledges the Wiradjuri People as the Traditional Custodians of the land in the Bathurst Region. We pay respect to Elders, past, present, and emerging and acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live, work and play in the Bathurst region.
