2003 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000
The 2003 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 was a motor race for V8 Supercars held on 12 October 2003 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It was the seventh running of the Australia 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It was the 47th race that traces its lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island. The race was the tenth round of the 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series.
The race was won by Greg Murphy and Rick Kelly driving a K-Mart Racing Team run Holden VY Commodore. It was the fifth consecutive victory for Holden, a new record. It was Murphy's third victory in the race and Kelly became the youngest driver to win the race, eclipsing the previous record set by Craig Lowndes in 1996.
On Saturday, Murphy also recorded what was then the fastest lap in the circuit's history to take pole position during the Top 10 Shootout. The time stood as the fastest ever in a V8 Supercar for 7 years until Craig Lowndes lapped barely a few hundredths faster in practice during the 2010 event, although neither are officially recognised as the lap record as only race laps contribute to lap records.
Entry List
| Drivers | Team | Car | Drivers | Team | Car | |||
| 1 |  Mark Skaife Todd Kelly | 24 | Wayne Wakefield Andy McElrea | |||||
| 2 |  Jim Richards Tony Longhurst | 29 | Paul Morris John Faulkner | |||||
| 3 | Cameron McConville Tim Leahey | 31 | Steven Ellery Luke Youlden | |||||
| 4 | Marcos Ambrose Russell Ingall | 33 | Nathan Pretty Allan Simonsen | |||||
| 5 | Darren Hossack Adam Macrow | 34 | Garth Tander Jamie Whincup | |||||
| 6 | Craig Lowndes Glenn Seton | 44 | Simon Wills Jason Richards | |||||
| 8 | Paul Dumbrell Tomas Mezera | 45 |  Nicolas Minassian Jan Magnussen | |||||
| 9 | Mark Noske Mark Winterbottom | 46 | Dale Brede Tony Ricciardello | |||||
| 10 | Mark Larkham Jason Bargwanna | 50 | Jason Bright Paul Weel | |||||
| 11 | Steven Richards Larry Perkins | 51 | Greg Murphy Rick Kelly | |||||
| 13 | Steve Owen Phillip Scifleet | 55 | José Fernández David Russell | |||||
| 15 |  Andy Priaulx Cameron McLean | 59 | Jamie Miller Ron Searle | |||||
| 16 | Greg Ritter Marcus Marshall | 65 | Paul Radisich Rickard Rydell | |||||
| 17 | Steven Johnson Warren Luff | 66 | Dean Canto Matthew White | |||||
| 18 |  Max Wilson David Brabham | 69 | Peter Doulman Robert Jones | |||||
| 19 | David Besnard Owen Kelly | 72 | Alan Gurr Jonny Reid | |||||
| 20 | Grant Johnson Kerry Wade | 75 | Anthony Tratt Paul Stokell | |||||
| 021 | Craig Baird Mark Porter | 89 | Mal Rose Grant Elliot | |||||
| 21 | Brad Jones John Bowe | 99 | David Thexton Stephen Voight | |||||
| 23 | Neal Bates Rick Bates | 888 | John Cleland Andrew Jones |
Practice
Qualifying
Qualifying
Top 10 Shootout
- Greg Murphy became the first New Zealand born driver to actually set pole position for the Bathurst 1000. Murphy and fellow Kiwi racers Jim Richards and Paul Radisich had previously been on pole position for the race, but on each of those occasions it was their Australian co-driver who had set the pole winning time. Murphy's time of 2:06.8594 was the first time a touring car had gone under 2:07.00 for a lap of the 6.213 km circuit and was unofficially dubbed the "Lap of the Gods".
- Larry Perkins crashed the #11 Castrol Perkins Racing Holden VY Commodore during Practice 4, with the damage substantial enough to rule it out for the Top 10 Shootout.
Starting grid
Race results
Statistics
- Provisional Pole Position - #51 Greg Murphy - 2:07.9503
- Pole Position - #51 Greg Murphy - 2:06.8594
- Fastest Lap - #34 Garth Tander - 2:08.6726
- Race time of winning car - 6:32:55.4044
- Average speed of winning car - 153 km/h