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It's that time of year again, when all attention in the motor sports world switches to Mount Panorama for the Bathurst 1000.
This year marks 60 years since the inaugural edition of the race on the famous mountain circuit.
In that time there have superstars of the sport and novices who have all made their mark, and there have been memorable storylines aplenty.
Look back at some of the most famous — and infamous — moments from the last six decades at Bathurst.
1992: Race ends in carnage as Jim Richards goes off at angry fans
Weather can play havoc with the Great Race at any stage, but especially when it comes in the closing laps.
That was certainly the case in 1992, when storms moved through from Orange to Bathurst later on Sunday afternoon.
Cars were coming in trying to change tyres in the wet, but as the rain got heavier things got dangerous on top of the mountain with just under 20 laps left.
Cars were losing grip and crashing left right and centre, particularly in the spot between Forrest Elbow and Conrod Straight.
Jim Richards and Mark Skaife were leading in the Skyline Nissan car, but they were caught on slick tyres — Richards hit the wall somewhere up the top, and then with one tyre hanging off began going slowly down the mountain.
He had little chance of rescuing things once he started aquaplaning, and as fans and commentators looked on, he skidded into the wall and then slid down the hill to three already crashed cars and collided with them.
Other cars joined them as officials red-flagged the race with Richards and Skaife on their 145th lap out of 161.
Legendary Ford driver Dick Johnson coasted down to the finish and waved his hand out the window to salute the crowd.
But because so many cars had already crashed before the end of Richards and Skaife's 144th lap, the race result was wound back to the end of lap 143, and the Nissan pair were declared the winners.
This incensed some of the crowd, who gave a hot reception to the winners at the presentation with loud booing and beer cans thrown.
Richards — who had just been told of the death of his friend Denny Hulme following a crash earlier in the race — responded angrily, telling fans he thought their response was "bloody disgraceful".
"I'll keep racing but I tell you what, this is going to remain with me for a long time. You're a pack of a***holes."
1995: Larry Perkins goes from last to first as Glenn Seton's car blows up
Larry Perkins is one of the great names of motor racing, and he has a pivotal place on the honour roll at Bathurst.
He won the race three years in a row from 1982 to 1984, alongside co-driver Peter Brock.
Perkins would go on to win it six times in all, but of all his successes, it is perhaps 1995 that is the most memorable. In a race that's 1000km and 161 laps long, disaster can strike at any time.
In 1995, luck deserted Perkins on the opening lap, as he was forced to pit with a flat tyre.
He and co-driver Russell Ingall dropped to last place as a result, and it was a long way back — at one stage they were a lap down.
But the pair never gave up. Perkins drove like a demon to get their car back in contention, and Ingall was equally aggressive as they gradually hauled themselves back into the race.
They received some assistance as a number of entries struck trouble and failed to finish, while there were several safety car interludes that helped the pair make up ground.
Perkins and Ingall had made it inside the top five with 30 laps to go, and after the last safety car they went flat out trying to overhaul Alan Jones, Brad Jones and Glenn Seton ahead of them.
The crowd roared when Perkins passed Brad Jones with 19 laps left, having gone from 29th to second. Seton still led by a space, but Perkins continued to close.
Nine laps from the finish, however, Seton's car had engine trouble going down Conrod Straight and Perkins closed in before passing.
He was never headed again, and the last-to-first victory was secure.
2007: Frosty loses it at the Chase, trio out on the same corner, Craig Lowndes for the win
Sometimes things seem to be going along quietly on the mountain, and then suddenly it all changes in a hurry.
In 2007, it was a grey old afternoon at Bathurst, with rain beginning to fall as the race hit the last 15 laps or so.
On lap 148, Mark "Frosty" Winterbottom and co-driver Steven Richards were leading for Ford Performance Racing, but his rivals were stacked up behind him, waiting for a mistake or a chance to pass.
As the field drove through the gloom down Conrod Straight, Steven Johnson was fired up like his legendary dad Dick at his best, duelling with fellow Ford driver Jason Bright before getting past.
Ahead of them, Winterbottom lost it going into the Chase, after an almighty sideways slide which took him through the sand trap — the car surged at one point before getting a little airborne after hitting a bump.
He went through the track — narrowly missing Craig Lowndes — and out the other side before rescuing it, but a string of cars passed him and his winning chances were lost.
Everyone had barely drawn breath when things went sideways again the following lap, as three cars all crashed out at or before the McPhillamy Park corner. Bright hit the wall hard before sliding off, followed by Russell Ingall in a Ford and then Mark Skaife in a Holden.
Amid the carnage, it was a big moment for Ford, with defending champion Craig Lowndes, Johnson, Greg Murphy and James Courtney at the front of the race.
Johnson passed Lowndes to grab the lead, but Lowndes got it back in a move at Hell's Corner, and that was the way they finished, with Lowndes winning for the second straight year with co-driver Jamie Whincup.
2014: SVG's hopes end in pits, Chaz Mostert wins last lap duel as Jamie Whincup runs dry
Winning at Bathurst requires a huge operation, with a range of technology and engineering and a wave of team members, all drilled down to the second to achieve the goal.
In fact, just finishing the Bathurst 1000 requires all the above, plus luck, absolute concentration and elite decision-making, particularly when it comes to fuel.
If you get it wrong, you're going to pay. Just ask Jamie Whincup.
In 2014, the race was punctuated by seemingly endless crashes on the mountain. It got to the point where officials had to suspend the race because the surface of the track was cracking.
The time delay while this was sorted out contributed to a race that ended up taking nearly eight hours to complete.
As the race began to get to the business end, Shane van Gisbergen was leading when he ducked into the pits for a quick splash of fuel. It all went smoothly until the point where SVG tried to drive away on pit lane, and his car shut down.
Nothing could get the engine to fire properly, and a distraught driver was left to walk away from his Bathurst dream for 2014.
It would come down to two — Chaz Mostert and co-driver Paul Morris for Ford Performance Racing, and Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell for Triple Eight.
Mostert and Morris had had a terrible qualification, starting 25th and last off the grid.
Both pairs were pushing things to the max, but Whincup in particular was right on the limit. His team were increasingly loud and direct in his ear telling him to conserve fuel, but Whincup was not acknowledging.
Whincup was leading by three seconds, but the commentators were calling him out to pull back.
With mounting concern, the Triple Eight team were all but begging Whincup to slow down — in response he merely pushed his car harder.
Finally, a voice came over the radio, telling Whincup that he had one and a half laps left — and enough fuel for one.
As they went up the mountain for the final time, Whincup repelled a number of attacks from Mostert, but finally the Ford driver made an in-and-out effort that pulled Whincup across and left him open.
Going round the corner onto Conrod, Mostert finally got past him and he accelerated away to victory as Whincup's car ran out of fuel.
Whincup was left to walk back as his car coasted to a stop near the final corner.
2016: Whincup crosses first but loses to Will Davison on penalty after redress goes badly wrong
The Bathurst 1000 can be confusing at times, but one thing that's clear is that the win goes to the car and driver pairing that crosses the line first.
Except when it doesn't.
In 2016, there was a fierce battle going on between Scott McLaughlin (Garry Rogers Motorsport, Volvo), Garth Tander (Holden Racing Team) and Jamie Whincup (Red Bull Racing, Holden).
Approaching the end of lap 150, with 11 to go, the trio came down off Conrod Straight into the Chase, and Whincup decided to have a go up the inside of the leader McLaughlin on the corner.
Whincup collided with McLaughlin and sent him off into the grass, then Whincup opted to slow down to redress the issue and allow McLaughlin to get back in front.
The only problem with this was that Tander was coming up behind Whincup, and when Whincup slowed, Tander weaved trying to find a way past. So when McLaughlin re-entered the track, there was nowhere for him to go. Tander clipped McLaughlin, and both of them spun off into the fence.
Tander's race was over, and McLaughlin's car was banged up, losing plenty of time and putting him out of the reckoning.
Whincup drove away, but since he was the cause of the crash, he was going to get a penalty, which turned out to be 15 seconds.
After the safety car period ended, the Red Bull driver went for his life to try and achieve a lead of more than the penalty over his two nearest rivals, who were now Will Davison and Shane van Gisbergen, both in Holdens.
For the final laps it was like two separate races, with Whincup racing against the clock and Davison and van Gisbergen duelling for the win on corrected time.
Whincup's hopes were crushed when one last safety car was called on lap 158 — he tried again at the end but could only finish five and a half seconds clear. With his penalty, that was good enough for ninth place.
Davison outlasted van Gisbergen, to win by 0.14 seconds.
2019: Scotty Mac beats SVG in one-lap showdown to win the Great Race
The 2019 edition of Bathurst had plenty of drama, much of it from the frequent crashes and safety cars.
There were a string of interruptions in the last 40 laps, with the latter stages becoming a fuel-watch as teams tried to work out if they had enough to get home.
As various contenders were forced to pit, leader Scott McLaughlin from the Dick Johnson racing team Penske (DJRTP) was fuel saving out on the track. There was another safety car on lap 151, which brought the field together.
McLaughlin's NZ rival, Triple Eight Race Engineering's Shane van Gisbergen, was in second spot and he emerged with his foot down trying to pressure the leader into either making a mistake or running short of fuel.
The team radio was constantly at McLaughlin to "keep to your [fuel] number" as the laps wound down, and the pressure rose quickly.
It looked like it would go right down to the wire, but then on lap 158 Andre Heimgartner lost it at Forrest Elbow, clipped the wall and then ploughed into the fence opposite.
Suddenly it looked like the race could end behind the safety car, as they moved Heimgartner's car to the other side of the track at the turn onto Conrod.
As the announcement came for the safety car to move away, the crowd on top of the mountain went crazy, realising there would be time for just one racing lap to decide it all. No pressure, just the greatest prize in Supercars on the line.
As the field started up down the main straight toward Hell Corner for the final time, McLaughlin held the lead but van Gisbergen was within striking distance.
It was on up the mountain, neither driver giving an inch. There were gasps from the crowd as McLaughlin trailed a tyre in the dirt at McPhillamy Park, but he managed to avoid letting his rival in.
By the time they hit Conrod Straight, the leader had his advantage almost locked in, and he maintained enough of a gap that van Gisbergen could not get close enough under brakes.
McLaughlin came across the line to win his first Bathurst by 0.68 seconds.
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