2004 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000

Mount Panorama, Bathurst - 10th October, 2004
Number of Laps: 161

The 2004 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 was held on the 10th October 2004 at the Mount Panorama Circuit - as round 10 of the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series. The event was the eighth Australia 1000, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. The race was staged four days after the 41st anniversary of the first Bathurst 500/1000 touring car endurance race which was held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in 1963. The 2004 event was the 48th race with a lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island.

The race was won by 2003 winners Greg Murphy and Rick Kelly driving a Kmart Racing Team entered Holden VY Commodore. It was the sixth consecutive Bathurst 1000 victory for Holden, a new record. The 2004 event was the 32nd and last Bathurst 500/1000 for nine time race winner Peter Brock. He did not get to drive in the actual race however as Jason Plato, his British co-driver in the #05 Holden Racing Team Holden VY Commodore, crashed heavily on lap 31, putting the car out of the race.