Wear the right seat belt

With the ongoing noise about the future of car manufacturing in Australia, I have more than once considered how this will play out in our unique V8 Supercar racing competition - in particular, the showcase event, The Bathurst 1000. I remember growing up in Perth and getting up at 5.30am to watch the pre-race broadcast and count down to the start of the Great Race (and I'm not even a rev-head).