Touring car legend Peter Brock will take one more shot at winning a tenth꧂ Bathurst enduro when he joins a two-car Holden Monaro assault on the Bathurst 24-Hour international motor race in Nove🏅mber.

However, 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 te🐬ams announced at the event's official launch in Sydney today.

Brock and Nathan Pretty, who🍬 ꧃currently race the 7.0 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.

Brock, 58, will share car 05# with Gre🃏g Murphy, Jason Bright and Todd Kelly.

"The chance to drive that thumping 7.0 litre Monaro around a track like Mount Pan♑orama is one of life's great opportunities and I knew thatও 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 personalities. There are no clashes there and that is w✅hat you need when trying to win a race li𒁏ke this - it's vital everyone works toward the same goal."

Organiser PROCAR Aus𝓰tralia 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 532 laps or a𒊎lmost 3400 kilometres.

The 2🦄003 event proꦺmises a bigger and faster battle at the front of the field, with the Australian-built Monaros challenging a world-class field representing makes such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mosler, Porsche, Maserati, TVR and Mustang.

Melbourne team PHR Scuderia, led by John Bowe, has enter꧃ed four cars including a Porsche 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 leadi🎃ng Ford drivers.

British teams are due to bring at least six cars, including two Florida-built Mosler MT900R coupes and a TVR ๊Tuscan from the British GT Championship and two Pℱorsche GT3 RSs.

PROCAR Australia Chairman Ross Palmer said the organisers were in negotiation with Europe's current top Porsche team, Friesinger Motorsport of Germany, which🐻 recently won the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race in Bel💖gium.

"If Manfred Friesinger confirms his entry we understand he intends to lead the team with Stephaꦿne Ortelli, who is a Le Mans winner 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 anဣd othe🎐rs from Holland and Germany."

Mr Palmer said news of the successful first ♏Bathurst 24-Hour had spread widely through the international mot🦹orsport community and the event was on its way to becoming an important fixture on the endurance 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 through international and domestic television coveragꦫe.

"Wit💃h an historic, world-famous circuit that sits at the top of the main street, Bathurst has a unique atmosphere.

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

T෴he round-the-clock race starting at 2 pm on Saturday🧔 22 November will be the centrepiece of a huge weekend of entertainment at Bathurst.

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