Touring car legend Peter Brock will take one mor⭕e shot at winning a tenth Bathurst enduro when he joins a two-car Holden Monaro assault on the Bathurst 24-Hour intern♛ational motor race in November.

Howeve♎r, Brock is likely to face one of the toughest challenges of his 31 years on Mount Panorama from a field of crack overseas and Australian teams announced at the event's official launch in Sydney today.

Brock and Nathan Pretty, who currently race the 7𒈔.0 litre Monaros in the Donut King Australian Nations Cup Championship, formally handed in their entry nominations on behalf of Garry Rogers Motorsport and announced the names of their co-drivers.

The winning combination in car 427# from last year's inaugural race, Pretty, Steven Richards, Garth Tander and 🃏Cameron McConville, will return unchanged for the second event on 21-23 November.

Brocꦫk, 58, will share car 05# with Greg Murphy, Jason Brighꦦt and Todd Kelly.

"The chance to drಌive that thumping 7.0 litre Monaro around a track like Mount Panorama is one of life's great opportunities and I knew that I just had to be part of this year's race," said Brock, who drove a Monaro in his first Bathurst enduro in 1968 and won the 1000 in 1972, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1987.

"Our driver line-up is a tremendous combination of speed and experience and a great mix of pe📖rsonalities. There are no clashes there and that is what you need when trying to win a race like this - it's vital everyone works toward the same goal."

Organiser P𝓀ROCAR Australia has received 50 nominations for a starting grid restricted to 55 sports and touring cars, with applications not due to close until 1 October.

Last year 36 cars started the race, with the winners covering 5🔴32 laps or almost 3400 kilometres.

The 2003 event promises a bigger and faster battle at the front of the field, with the Australian-built Monaros challenging a world-class field representꦆing makes such as Ferra🍌ri, Lamborghini, Mosler, Porsche, Maserati, TVR and Mustang.

Melbourne team PHR Scuderia, led by John Bowe, has entered four cars including a Porsc🦋he GT3 RS and two Ferrari 360GT coupes all to international FIA N-GT specification.

Team Lamborghini Australia will field a Lamborghini Diablo GTR for Nations Cup series leader Paul Stokell and three others rumoured to be leading Ford⛦ drivers.

British teams are due to bring at least six cars, including two Florida-built Mosler M🐻T900R coupes and a TVR Tuscan from the British GT Championship and two Porsche GT3 RSs.

PRꦺOCAR Australia Chairman Ross Palmer said the organise꧒rs were in negotiation with Europe's current top Porsche team, Friesinger Motorsport of Germany, which recently won the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race in Belgium.

"If Manfred Friesinger confirms his entry we understand he intends to lead the team with Stephane Ortelli, w๊ho is a Le Mans win♈ner and current champion in international FIA N-GT and Porsche Supercup," he said.

"We are also dealing with three Swedish touring car teams, one 🧜from New Zealand and others from Holland and Germany."

Mr Palmer said news of the successful first Bathurst 24-Hour had sprea🥃d widely through the international motorsport community and the event was on its way to becoming an important fixture on the ꩵendurance racing calendar.

"It will bring many more fans and teams to Bathurst this year, plus valuable exposure for the New South💯 Wales central-west region t൩hrough international and domestic television coverage.

"With an historic, worl𝐆d-famous circuit that sits at the top of the main street, Bat🦩hurst has a unique atmosphere.

"I'm delighted that Bathurst City Council and the residents recognise th⛎e opportunity this presents and𓂃 are planning celebrations that will make a visit to the Bathurst 24-Hour truly memorable," Mr Palmer said.

The round-the-clock race starting at 2 pm on Sat⭕urday 22 November will be the centrepiece of a huge weekend of entertainment at Bathurst.

Other attractions are planned to include races for 💞GTP and Production cars, V8 BRutes and Porsches, a ute muster and a country music concert.