Organisers have begun installing temporary seating along Pit Straight to accommodate the 4000 fans that will be allowed on-track for each day of the four-day festival next week.

But if ticket holders who forked out up to $248 for a four-day pass to the races were picturing a seat in the lap of luxury, they had better think again.

Images from the Mount Panorama circuit show hundreds of plastic chairs being set up along the hill beside Pit Straight in groups of between two and six seats.

The layout will keep fans socially distanced throughout the event but concerns have already been raised about the discomfort of sitting for up to eight hours on a plastic chair, particularly with COVID restrictions limiting just how much fans will be able to walk around and stretch their legs.

One race fan who contacted the Australian Community Media said he was shocked when he saw the seating along Pit Straight on Friday.

Kelso man Graham Scott said he had bought three four-day tickets for next weekend's race but would not have bothered if he knew the seating arrangements.

"I was horrified to find that what I had purchased were not seats in a stand but cheap plastic seats on the grass in front of where the stand would be," Mr Scott said.

"Prior to sitting in the stand last year, we always sat on the top of the elevated grass area and would never consider utilising the area close to the track as visibility of the cars on Pit Straight is basically impossible unless you are standing.

"I now find that I am paying ... for the privilege of using a hard, uncomfortable plastic chair - or, in other cases, those flimsy fold-up chairs that break without much warning - for four days on the grass in an area with limited view of the track in front of me."

Bathurst mayor Bobby Bourke said the seating plan was the responsibility of race organisers Supercars, in consultation with the COVID-safe plan approved by the state government, and was simply the reality for this year.

"People have to be allocated a seat and that's just what it is," Cr Bourke said.

"If I was them I would be having a look in the all the op shops to get a cushion."