This year’s Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, which also hosts 2022’s season-opening Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli round on May 13-15, will feature a revised class structure that places greater emphasis on Pro-Am driver crews. Australia’s International Enduro has been a magnet for factory-supported entries and professional line-ups in recent years. But the enforced date … Continue reading
International travel restrictions caused by COVID-19 will prevent the 2021 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour from taking place as previously planned in February. Australia’s International Enduro staged the very first Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli event in 2016 and has hosted each of the championship’s subsequent season openers ever since. Originally a domestic event, the … Continue reading
Craft-Bamboo Racing confirms a return to the 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour in the pro category, as part of the 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge. The team will compete at the infamous Mount Panorama circuit in Australia with one entry, and a possibility of a second entry to be confirmed at a later date. The driver lineup … Continue reading
In the first of what is expected to be a raft of changes for the CAMS Australian GT Championship in season 2020, comes news that the popular national category will return to Bathurst’s Mount Panorama at Easter next year as part of the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6-Hour weekend for a championship round that is scheduled … Continue reading
Craft-Bamboo Racing began its new partnership with Mercedes-AMG by delivering a solid performance at the 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour. As a one-off collaboration, Craft-Bamboo Racing and Black Falcon joined forces to tackle this gruelling endurance race. Named Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Black Falcon, the two teams combined its efforts by integrating the team managers, engineers and … Continue reading
The two KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 cars showed race-winning potential during the team’s maiden Bathurst 12 Hour outing, setting the fastest lap and scoring valuable 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge points after the #18 finished seventh at the Mount Panorama Circuit. A strong qualifying saw the #18 Nissan GT-R progress into the … Continue reading
BMW M Motorsport and the BMW M6 GT3 have finished in fifth place at the Bathurst 12 Hour on Mount Panorama Circuit in an emotional event for BMW Team Schnitzer. It was the team’s first race appearance since it’s long-time team principal Charly Lamm passed away. Drivers Augusto Farfus (BRA), Chaz Mostert (AUS) and Martin … Continue reading
R-Motorsport signed of the blue riband enduro career of the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 with a team performance that almost delivered a famous win in one of the most challenging GT races worldwide with a driving squad of three Bathurst rookies and the oldest GT3 design on the grid. After claiming the pole position … Continue reading
Audi Sport customer racing experienced a setback in the launch of its title defense in the Intercontinental GT Challenge. After both Audi R8 LMS of the Audi Sport Team Valvoline had at times led the 12-hour race in Bathurst in the early phase, the squad with drivers Christopher Haase/Christopher Mies/Markus Winkelhock ultimately had to settle … Continue reading
A small rock through the radiator was all it took to end a Bathurst-winning dream for Kenny Habul and his SunEnergy1 team at the Liqui-Moly 12-hour at Mt Panorama today. A dominant leader in the Pro-Am class, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Habal, Thomas Jaeger and Dominik Bauman was comfortably running as high as third outright … Continue reading