TWO-time Dakkar Rally winner Toby Price and five times Moto GP world champion Mick Doohan are amongst the latest sporting stars who have been confirmed as starters for the Supercars' virtual celebrity race at Mount Panorama.
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An idea formulated on the back of the success of the Supercars All Stars Eseries, which has run while the actual championship is on hold due to the coronavirus, the celebrity race will see sporting identities put their simulator skills to the test around the 6.213 kilometre circuit.
Doohan's son Jack, a Red Bull Junior Team driver, was amongst the wildcard entries for the fifth round of the All Stars series, but next Monday the senior Doohan will get his chance.
While a number of the celebrities who will tackle the virtual challenge have never done a racing lap of Mount Panorama, Doohan has done so on both two and four wheels.
He won the final Australian motorcycle Grand Prix to be held in the TT (Tourist Troup) format at Mount Panorama in 1988 before the race moved to Phillip Island the following year and became a round of the World Championship.
Then in 2015 Doohan got behind the wheel of a Mercedes at Bathurst for the AMG Challenge. It was an experience he enjoyed.
"Mount Panorama has a special place in motor sport history," he said at the time.
While Price, who came third in this year's Dakkar Rally, was part of the Super Utes series in 2018 and 2019, he did not contest the Bathurst rounds either of those years.
He has watched the Bathurst 1000 live, but Monday's celebrity race will see Price tackle the slopes of the famous circuit for the first time, albeit in a simulated situation.
Price and Doohan were two of the additional celebrities who were confirmed as starters on Monday night, with the first eight being revealed last week.
Hawthorn speedster Jarman Impey is the second AFL player to be confirmed as starter, following on from Jack Riewoldt being named last week, while Brisbane Roar A-League talent Daniel Bowles will join in too.
All Blacks prop Angus Taavo, 2014 Australian Rally Championship winner Scott Pender, Supercars team owners Zac Brown and Ryan Storey, motoX and superX star Dan Reardon, plus X Games medallist and Crusty Demons rider Blake Williams will also line up on the grid for the celebrity race at Mount Panorama next Monday.
It will be broadcast live on the Supercars Facebook page from 7pm.
