Fox Sports / Speed (Australia):
BATHURST’S famed Mount Panorama is set be known under another name, with plans to co-name it with the site’s original indigenous name.
Bathurst Regional Council is moving to have the name “Wahluu” formally gazetted, with the site to be known under both names.
The landmark was once known simply as “Bald Hills” before being rechristened amid the creation of the tourist drive around the hill in the mid-1930s, that we better know and love as the Mount Panorama motor racing circuit.
But prior to European settlement it was known as “Wahluu” to the local Wiradjuri tribe, the name meaning “to watch over” according to the circuit’s website.
“It was from the vantage points now known as Skyline & McPhillamy Park that the young Wiradjuri men would watch over their land and the movements of travellers to and from the valley,” the circuit’s history page states.
Since ‘Wahluu’ is a second official name, I don’t believe we need to change the details of Mount Panorama in Forza too much. It’d be nice to acknowledge it, however.