Just ask Scottsdale’s Laura Brown-Fleming, who this year experienced this for the fourth time.

Miss Brown-Flemming was one of the thousands of motor racing fanatics attending one of Australia’s most iconic sporting events.

‘‘There is just this atmosphere, being able to camp here and just waking up to hear the cars going around the track,’’ Miss Brown-Fleming said.

‘‘You really do just get to live and breath it.

‘‘The atmosphere is amazing and you just wake up on Sunday, and it is just the day you wait for, with everyone just so excited and pumped up.

‘‘I love the sport, as it is just fun to come out to the races, and I just love the cars.

‘‘You meet so many people and I have made so many friends through V8 Supercars.

‘‘At Bathurst, the people you camp with, you end up camping with every year and they do end up like family, and it is always great to catch up with them.’’

It is a true family affair for Miss Brown-Fleming, who with her sister Alex, left Tasmania via the Spirit of Tasmania for their Bathurst road trip, with their parents Cathy and Wayne flying down from Queensland for the event.

The majority of her family supports the Holden Racing Team, but Miss Brown-Fleming follows Red Bull Racing, and particularly Craig Lowndes, who was this year gunning for his sixth Bathurst 1000 victory.

Miss Brown-Flemming's pre-race words proved prophetic when she said the race could be won by ``a few outsiders, so it is really tight and anyone could win it.’’

``They'' did, when Ford team of Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris started dead last and won the race.