Two-time Bathurst 1000 champion Will Davison has called for a major shake-up of the race, declaring he would like to see full-time Supercars drivers be allowed to compete in the same car at the Great Race.
Teams have not been allowed to put two regular drivers in the same car since the 2009 edition sparked a controversial rule change.
Davison, who races for the Shell V-Power team, won alongside Garth Tander for the Walkinshaw Holden Racing Team in 2009, the last pair of full-time drivers to partner up.
They beat Brad Jones Racing’s duo of Cameron McConville and Jason Richards and Garry Rogers Motorsport’s Michael Caruso/Lee Holdsworth partnership – both full-time driver pairings.
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After that race, Supercars forced teams to split their full-time drivers for endurance events. At the time, former Bathurst winner Todd Kelly declared it “the most ridiculous rule I’ve heard in my life”.
Now Davison has thrown his support behind a reversal of the rule.
“The last year of being able to do that was 2009; it was actually myself and Garth Tander, when I won my first Bathurst, where we paired up together and then you’ll have to have two part-timers, effectively, in the second car,” he said on Triple M’s Australia Today with Steve Price.
“They changed the rule for that, so the car you’re driving in the championship all year, you have to drive at Bathurst.
“So, that would be cool though [to pair full-time drivers].
“I often think about those the old days where you could put your two main guys together, and they were cool days; I do miss them.
“But that’s not the way we can do it anymore, unfortunately.”
Davison will pair up with brother Alex in the #17 Ford Mustang for Dick Johnson Racing as he hopes to win for a third time after that 2009 victory and 2016 triumph.
The brothers have driven together on five occasions around Mount Panorama, with a best finish of fourth in 2014.
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