LIVE: Mountain claims weekend's first victim

When Garth Tander crossed the enactment to triumph the 2000 Bathurst 1000 with Jason Bargwanna, helium conquered the wettest Great Race successful history.

But if forecasts for this play are accurate, that grounds could fall.

On that day, 20.8mm fell connected Mount Panorama and the 54-car tract produced a contention grounds 13 information cars.

Tander said portion helium remembers small of that race, acquisition gained successful his hundreds of bedewed laps implicit his 24 Bathurst starts is what counts.

"You larn astir however the upwind affects the way - wherever there's lasting water, wherever there's rivers, due to the fact that fixed the racetrack is virtually connected the broadside of a mountain, the h2o volition cascade down the hill," helium told Wide World of Sports.

"So implicit that clip you larn wherever each the rivers are and you larn wherever each the much treacherous parts of the circuit are. So that database successful your encephalon is ever evolving.

"I'm astir apt inactive utilizing info from backmost past due to the fact that the way hasn't changed, but successful world however you thrust the car and however you spell astir it, I can't retrieve that."

The upwind volition besides mean the contention is present overmuch much unfastened successful presumption of contenders.

"We tin travel up with each the strategies successful the world, but the lone happening you can't alteration is the weather. So we person to woody with what we've been given.

"You astir apt instrumentality little risks aboriginal successful the week, due to the fact that there's much accidental of causing harm to the car successful bedewed conditions.

"You conscionable person to trust connected your acquisition and and conscionable not get excessively carried distant with it."