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'So many things that can go wrong': Greg Murphy on luck and winning Bathurst

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 11 Oct 2025, 2:51pm
Rick Kelly and Greg Murphy of the Kmart Racing Team celebrate after winning the Bathurst 1000 which is round ten of the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series at Mount Panorama on October 10, 2004 in Bathurst, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
Rick Kelly and Greg Murphy of the Kmart Racing Team celebrate after winning the Bathurst 1000 which is round ten of the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series at Mount Panorama on October 10, 2004 in Bathurst, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

'So many things that can go wrong': Greg Murphy on luck and winning Bathurst

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 11 Oct 2025, 2:51pm

Petrolheads are flocking to Bathurst for the biggest weekend in Australasian motorsport. 

The Bathurst 1000 kicks off this weekend over the ditch in Australia. 

Few people know the race better than 4-time winner Greg Murphy, who claimed the victory in 1996, 1999, 2003, and 2004. 

The race is reliant on luck, a million tiny factors the difference between winning and losing, Murphy telling Piney there’s so many things that can go wrong. 

“You've got to try and dot a lot of I's and cross a lot of T's, and when one of those things isn't quite right, you're not going to win the race.” 

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