Bathurst 12 Hour 2023

Mount Panorama has already taken it's first victim of the 12 Hour race, with the #74 AudiSport Team MPC Audi, the only Pro-Class Audi in the race, ...

Augusto Farfus completes the 5 in the #46 WRT BMW, ahead of the sister #32 WRT BMW with Dries Vanthoor at the wheel. Talbot was able to stretch enough of a gap over the mountain to keep Ellis at bay down the bottom, with the gap to the leading 5 ballooning out to 20 seconds. The incident was the boiling point of a 10-car train early in the race, held behind Liam Talbot who started the #65 SportsBet Audi.

A field of 26 cars has been entered for this year's race, including factory-backed cars from Mercedes-AMG, Audi, Porsche and BMW, the latter's headlined by nine ...

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The 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour is underway, with GruppeM Racing's Maro Engel leading the opening laps in the #999 Mercedes-AMG.

It was then left for Engel to take the green flag for the commencement of what was officially Lap 3 just after 05:54, with the field in single file. After a clean start and one green flag lap in the books, Engel’s margin over fellow German Gotz was just 0.3593s, with Preining several tenths further back. Engel took the start after earning pole position with a record-breaking 2:00.8819s in final qualifying on the afternoon prior at Mount Panorama.

The 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour has commenced with a hot pace being set across the first hour as poleman Maro Engel remains in control.

Talbot bowled a wide at the Chase and settled into P11 after the busy period of racing. But a lap later Haase was fired backwards into the tyre batter at the same right-hander after contact with the #44 Mercedes driven by Padayachee. The #55 PremiAir Racing entry driven by Frederic Vervisch made a tight move on #74 of Haase tight for ninth on the run up to Hell Corner. As the natural light emerged, the angry pack of 11 cars separated by just five seconds behind Talbot made their moves, igniting a tense and fraught period of racing. The #74 Audi driven by Christopher Haase, Patrick Niederhauser and Mattia Drudi was the only casualty of the first hour after a shunt at Griffins Bend. Talbot was behind the wheel of the Chaz Mostert #65 Audi R8 and bottled up an angry pack of cars with positions 6 to 17 running nose to tail.

Two-times Bathurst 12 Hour winner Lowndes is out of this year's event after his Mercedes-AMG GT ended up in the wall.

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CRAIG Lowndes' Bathurst 12 Hour has come to an early end due to a big crash for car owner and co-driver Scott Taylor. The Gold Coast-based businessman ...

The #222 Mercedes had a lucky escape on just the fifth lap of the race when Davison was hit from behind by Porsche driver Brenton Grove. “It’s a shame. It occurred just ahead of the race leading SunEnergy1 Mercedes of Jules Gounon, who made it past the crashing car unscathed.

The starting grid for the 2023 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour has been set. The #999 GruppeM Mercedes-AMG will start from pole position thanks to a ...

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The halfway point of the 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour has been reached with an intriguing race in store at Mount Panorama.

The top Pro-Am car is Christopher Mies in the #777 Audi, with Chaz Mostert not far away. Van Gisbergen dived to the pits for a fourth time and gave Broc Feeney his first stint behind the wheel of car #888 after four and a half hours of racing and rejoined eighth. Even after its eighth visit to the lane, the Sun Energy car retained its lead ahead of Jaminet, Feeney and Marciello. The fifth hour of the race started in exciting fashion with a hot pace and tight battles at the front. But behind him is a fascinating affair with the Manthey EMA Porsche, #888 Mercedes and #999 car that started on pole separated by less than a second for much of the period. Leading the way is Jules Gounon, who is in control by 15 seconds in the Sun Energy car after eight tours to the lane.

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Organisers of the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour have announced a new record attendance figure for the three-day event.

“We would like to thank the fans for coming out to support our return to a Pro-Pro GT3 international event, our first in three years,” said Event Director Shane Rudzis. “The racing on Sunday was world-class and the pictures of sunrise as a backdrop to the Mount Panorama circuit are part of the unique moments that make this circuit one of the most iconic in the world.” “Fans saw a reinvigorated Harris Park precinct and we would like to thank the manufacturers for engaging with fans in ways like never before. “From the track to the skies, we made some key additions to the entertainment package in 2023, which we want to build on next year and in the future. “I would also like to thank our volunteers, dedicated officials, and the hospitable people of Bathurst for creating an unforgettable experience for fans. “We would like to thank the event’s major stakeholders SRO, DNSW, Liqui Moly, and Bathurst Regional Council, who came together to make this year’s event the biggest and best yet.

The new record for the first event of the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli season, has eclipsed the previous record of 49,495 set in 2019, when ...

Kiwi Liam Lawson’s historic laps have already been viewed by millions of fans around the world in what was a special moment on Mount Panorama. "We would like to thank our broadcast partners, Foxtel and the Seven Network, who brought the adrenaline-fueled action to audiences around the country and around the world." "Fans saw a reinvigorated Harris Park precinct and we would like to thank the manufacturers for engaging with fans in ways like never before.

THE 2023 edition of the Bathurst 12 Hour has drawn a record three-day crowd of 53,446, event organisers have announced. That number eclipses the previous ...

“From the track to the skies, we made some key additions to the entertainment package in 2023, which we want to build on next year and in the future,” said Rudzis. “The racing on Sunday was world-class and the pictures of sunrise as a backdrop to the Mount Panorama circuit are part of the unique moments that make this circuit one of the most iconic in the world.” This year marked a return of the 12 Hour as a true international GT race following a COVID-19 induced hiatus in 2021 and a Pro-Am format in 2022.

The GruppeM Racing Mercedes of Maro Engel/Mikael Grenier/Raffaele Marciello enjoys a 30s lead over Matt Campbell in the Porsche after 265 laps around the ...

The repair meant the car dropped from fifth to seventh and its podiums hopes received a setback. It was imposed due to a pit-stop infringement when the team performed an unauthorised rear-wing adjustment at its seventh stop. Stolz finally let the lead when he pitted with two hours and 13 minutes left on the clock, dropping from first to third and putting Marciello back in front. The hopes of car #888 gaining ground from the top six took a hit when it was served with a drive-through penalty. Stolz stayed in the Mercedes and rejoined fourth with car #999 in control by around 30s ahead of cars #912 and #32 who are all on the same strategy. The SunEnergy1 car that had has led a lot of the race was a minute behind Engel due to running an alternative strategy.

'Gonna run around the track naked': Bathurst 12hr winner goes wild after historic win.

The last one was really hard in the pits. It was just an outstanding job,” he said. “The contact, front bumper to rear wheel was the incriminating evidence.” “It’s just another chapter to their challenges at this joint.” “It’s behind the rear wheel to start with. Habul was ecstatic with the win on Sunday as he declared he’d “run around the track naked” to celebrate.

But GruppeM Racing is fuming after copping a penalty late in the race at Mount Panorama on Sunday. GruppeM Racing's Maro Engel overtook Sun Energy 1's Gounon to ...

I'm sorry ... And it was tough because I had old tyres from Luca when I got in. I'm really dead! But to win Bathurst ... "Thanks to Mercedes-AMG and thanks to the town of Bathurst. "And, you know, I drove really well. "First of all, I want to say sorry to Maro for the contact. "And then after that, I'm going to drink a lot tonight." "And I wanted to win outright. "The contact, front bumper to rear wheel, was the incriminating evidence." As Engel tried to peg back the deficit, Hindhaugh said the 37-year-old was "fired up like a volcano". "It's behind the rear wheel to start with.