Bayley Hall has only just earned his L-plates but is already preparing to compete with Australia's best drivers at the Bathurst 1000.

Key points: 16yo Gold Coaster to compete in SuperUtes at Bathurst 1000

16yo Gold Coaster to compete in SuperUtes at Bathurst 1000 Hall will be the youngest competitor in the category

Hall will be the youngest competitor in the category It is the gateway into professional racing

Bayley Hall drives a VE Commodore during the Queensland Touring Cars Championship. ( Supplied: Matthew Paul Photography )

The 16-year-old Gold Coaster has been plucked from the junior ranks of motorsports to race in the Supercars support category at Mount Panorama in October.

He will be the youngest competitor in the SuperUtes category.

"It will be the greatest thing for me ever so far in my career — it is unbelievable to go to Bathurst at this age," Hall said.

"This starts to lead towards Supercars; you're in the SuperUtes supporting them and everyone sees you."

Hall's regular competition is the Queensland Touring Cars Championship where he drives a VE Holden Commodore, a world away from the ute he will drive for Ross Stone Racing at Bathurst.

"It has a high centre of gravity which is probably my biggest change," he said.

"The car is a bit more floaty and a bit more nervous so around a track like Bathurst I have got to show a lot of skill."

Using technology to train

With less than two weeks before race day, every second is precious for Hall.

By the time he is on the grid at Mount Panorama, he will have had just 30 minutes behind the wheel of a SuperUte.

Bayley Hall trains for his SuperUtes debut in a racing car simulator ( ABC News: Steve Keen )

It will also be the first time he has seen the track, however, he will have driven countless laps using a high-tech race simulator in his family lounge room.

"I spend hours on end after or before school on the simulator around Bathurst, around any track that I'm coming up to to get used to," Hall said.

"You can feel all the bumps in the track from the laser-scanned track.

"It is a really cool opportunity for me to do hundreds of laps before I actually get to the track to make sure I am ready for it."

Raising a champion

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Hall had his first taste of racing when he started karting at six years old, but his mother Nadine Hall said he became fixated on motorsport many years earlier.

"When he was two he would sit and watch the V8 Supercars and if you ever just wanted to settle him down, you'd put on Formula One and he would watch with eyes wide, he absolutely loved it," she said.

"Then when he was at kindy one day the teacher pulled us in and Bayley had blood all over his toes — he would race everybody in the foot-propelled little cars to the point where they had to pull him off.

"He would go round and round and round, he wanted to do it all day and he wanted to beat everyone."

This was the first of many early signs that Nadine and husband Roy had that their little boy was a burgeoning champion.

"We had always been karting from since he was six, so we have had to go around and do a lot of that work prior to him getting this opportunity," Roy Hall said.

"I am an excited dad to see my son go around Bathurst — we have never even been there before — so for our first time, he will be racing there."

Next steps

The Bayley Hall Racing team (from left) Roy Hall, Nadine Hall, Shayla Hall and Bayley Hall. ( ABC News: Steve Keen )

After Bathurst, Hall will compete in the SuperUtes category at the Gold Coast 600 and Newcastle 500.

If he performs well, he could capture the attention of professional racing teams and sponsors and gain opportunities in the higher-tier Supercars feeder categories — Super 3 and Super 2.

It is a thrilling moment in time for the entire Hall family — mum Nadine, dad Roy and sister Shayla — who to this point, make up the Bayley Hall Racing team.

"It's a journey now that we are on the right trajectory to see what is next because you have to get somewhere eventually," Roy said.

"With his young age we do have time on our side but this is part of the progression now to keep moving forward into the next level of racing."