LIVE: Supercars work to avoid weather repeat

Supercars and the Bathurst Regional Council worked done the nighttime to assistance lasting h2o drain from the Mount Panorama circuit.

After insignificant flooding connected the pit and Mountain Straights forced the cancellation of the top-10 shootout for the archetypal clip successful its 44-year history, 

Mount Panorama is for the astir portion a parkland thoroughfare circuit. The full contention way is simply a nationalist roadworthy extracurricular contention weekend, and maintained by the council.

On-track enactment is adjacent paused for an hr connected each of the archetypal 3 days to let residents entree successful and retired of the circuit.

The flooding connected the 2 straights was caused by h2o flowing retired of the campgrounds, pit paddock and driveways, and was pooling astatine Hell Corner.

"The forecast for (Sunday) is improving, and the assembly volition beryllium doing immoderate enactment overnight, conscionable making definite those drains are relieved from immoderate debris that's been washed down into them," contention manager James Taylor said.

"We'll look astatine trying to chopped immoderate impermanent drains conscionable to assistance dissipate disconnected the circuit wherever the writer is elevated supra the asphalt.

"They're conscionable the things that are disposable for them to do, and past we'll evidently person to negociate it connected the day."