SUNSHINE AND SENSATIONAL Racing has capped off a stunning Saturday at the Bathurst Motor Festival.

Racing began in earnest today with the five race categories present launching into action, and the two regularity competitions taking to the track to race the clock.

PETER CARR has edged out reigning champion Adrian Cottrell on a record-breaking day at the Bathurst Motor Festival.

In near-perfect conditions, seven race and regularity categories commenced their on-track activities with a raft of practice and qualifying to set the grids for when racing commences tomorrow.

BATHURST WILL COME ALIVE this Easter with the return of the Bathurst Motor Festival to Mount Panorama, and New South Wales’ picturesque Central West region.

This three day festival of racing was returned to the Mountain last year with a successful Event that featured exciting racing, great weather and a relaxed, family atmosphere with more than 9,000 attending the Event across the three days.

HE’S LIVED IN Bathurst his whole life, but Michael Anderson will satisfy a long-held ambition during this weekend’s Bathurst Motor Festival – racing at Mount Panorama for the first time.

THE TWO AUSTRALIAN F3 Champions in the 2012 field say the series’ debut at the Bathurst Motor Festival this week is the ‘biggest challenge’ in its twelve-year history.