FULL BATHURST 12 HOUR ENTRY LIST REVEALED

Australia, New Zealand and the World’s best drivers will congregate at Mt Panorama next week for the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour.

The impressive field of over 175 drivers made up of 17 different nationalities will make up the grid for the Bathurst 12 Hour. World Champions, ex-Formula 1 drivers, GT world title winners and some of the best young rising stars in a fiercely competitive field spread across four classes.

The Bathurst enduro also doubles as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge for 2018.

The four-round series won by Audi in 2017 also includes the Spa 24 Hour, Suzuka 10 Hour and California 8 Hour enduros and sees a host of manufacturer interest in the opening race at Mt Panorama.

Supercars stars are also well represented on the grid including 2017 champion Jamie Whincup, and runner-up Scott McLaughlin, defending Bathurst 1000 winners David Reynolds and Luke Youlden.

Nine previous Bathurst 12 Hour winners are entered in the race including 2017 winners Whincup and Craig Lowndes.

Bathurst 12 Hour Grid

Car # Class Team Name Manufacturer Model Driver #1 Driver #2 Driver #3 Driver #4 17 PRO Bentley Team M-Sport Bentley Continental GT3 Steven Kane Guy Smith Jules Gounon 18 PRO Bentley Team M-Sport Bentley Continental GT3 Andy Soucek Maxime Soulet Vincent Abril 22 PRO Audi Sport Customer Racing Audi R8 LMS Garth Tander Kelvin Van der Linde Fredrick Vervisch 37 PRO Audi Sport Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Robin Frijns Stuart Leonard Dries Vanthoor 43 PRO BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M6 GT3 Augusto Farfus Chaz Mostert Marco Wittmann 55 PRO Mercedes-AMG Team Strakka Racing Mercedes AMG GT GT3 Nick Leventis Lewis Williamson Cameron Waters David Fumaneli 56 PRO Mercedes-AMG Team Strakka Racing Mercedes AMG GT GT3 Maximillian Buhk Maximillian Goetz Alvaro Parente 58 PRO YNA Autosport Mclaren 650S GT3 Shane Van Gisbergen Craig Lowndes Côme Ledogar 74 PRO Audi Sport Customer Racing Audi R8 LMS Christopher Mies Christopher Haase Markus Winklehock 75 PRO Mercedes-AMG Team SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 Kenny Habul Tristan Vautier Jamie Whincup Raffaele Marciello 100 PRO BMW Team SRM BMW M6 GT3 Steven Richards Timo Glock Phillip Eng 911 PRO Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 Romain Dumas Frederic Makowiecki Dirk Werner 991 PRO Craft Bamboo Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Earl Bamber Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor 8 PRO-AM Scott Taylor Motorsport Mercedes AMG GT3 Max Twigg Craig Baird Tony D’Alberto 9 PRO-AM Audi Sport Customer Racing Audi R8 LMS Marc Cini Lee Holdsworth Dean Fiore 11 PRO-AM Objective Racing Mclaren 650S Tony Walls Warren Luff Tim Slade Jaxon Evans 12 PRO-AM Competition Motorsports Porsche 991 GT3R David Calvert-Jones Patrick Long Matt Campbell Alex Davison 19 PRO-AM Nineteen Corp P/L Mercedes GT David Reynolds John Martin Liam Talbot Mark Griffith 29 PRO-AM Trofeo Motorsport Lamborghini Hurracan Jim Manolios Ryan Millier Ivan Capelli Dean Canto 32 PRO-AM Lago Racing Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX Roger Lago David Russell Steven Owen 39 PRO-AM Audi Sport Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Will Davison 47 PRO-AM YNA Autosport Mclaren 650S GT3 Scott McLaughlin Fraser Ross Andrew Watson Alexander West 82 PRO-AM International Motorsport Audi R8 LMS Andrew Bagnall Matthew Halliday Johnny Reid 540 PRO-AM Black Swan Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Tim Pappas Jeroen Bleekemolen Luca Stolz Marc Lieb 777 PRO-AM Buik Motorworks Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 REX Yasser Shahin Luke Youlden Tomas Enge 3 AM Audi Sport Customer Racing Audi R8 LMS Ash Samadi Daniel Gaunt Dylan O’Keefe 6 AM Safe-T-Stop Lamborghini Gallardo Richard Gartner Hadrian Morall David Wall John Bowe 69 AM Audi Sport Customer Racing Audi R8 LMS James Koundoris Theo Koundouris Ash Walsh Duvashen Padayachee 4 B Grove Motorsport Pty Ltd Porsche GT3 Cup Stephen Grove Brenton Grove Benjamin Barker 21 B JFC – Carter Grange Porsche 911 Daniel Stutterd Sam Fillmore TBA 23 B Team Carrera Cup Asia Porsche 991 Paul Tresidder Chris Van der Drift Andrew Tang Chen Yi-Fan 42 B On Track Motorsport Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Garry Mennell Kean Booker Aaron Zerefos Mark Caine 85 B Wall Racing Porsche 911GT3-Cup Charles Putman Charles Espenlaub Joe Foster 13 C RHC-Lawrence/Strom (MarcGT) BMW M4 GT4 Daren Eric Jorgensen Cameron Lawrence Brett Strom Kuno Wittmer 15 C Baigent Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 Kent Baigent Neil Allport Matt Spratt Ash Blewett 30 C Boat Works Racing BMW M4 Aaron Seton Matt Brabham Tony Longhurst 44 C BMW Team SRM BMW M4 GT4 Dean Grant Xavier West Cameron Hill 46 C Prosport Performance GABH Porsche Cayman PRO4 Jorg Viebahn Max Braams Marco Schelp 48 C M Motorsport P/L KTM X-Bow GT4 Justin McMillan David Crampton Timothy Macrow Caitlin Wood 49 C KTM / M Motorsport KTM X-Bow GT4 Glen Wood Tent Harrison Cody Hill 77 C Ginetta Australia Ginetta G55 TBA Coleby Cowham Lindsay Kearns 88 C Ginetta Australia Ginetta G55 TBA Jaie Robson TBA 111 C Ginetta Australia Ginetta G50 TBA TBA TBA 33 I MARC Cars Australia MARC Mazda V8 TBA TBA TBA 54 I MARC Cars Australia MARC II V8 Tony Alford Kyle Alford Chad Parish 65 I Daytona Sportscars Daytona Coupe Jamie Augustine Dylan Thomas Rhys Howell 66 I Daytona Sportscars Dodge Viper Ben Schoots Adam Macrow Michael Caine 67 I MARC Cars Australia MARC II V8 Jake Camilleri Morgan Haber Aaron Cameron 91 I MARC Cars Australia MARC II V8 Keith Kassulke Rod Salmon Will Brown 93 I MARC Cars Australia MARC Mazda V8 Zane Goddard Rob Thomson Drew Ridge 94 I MARC Cars Australia MARC Mazda V8 Nick Rowe Tyler Everingham James Kaye 95 I Eastgate Engineering MARC Focus V8 Geoff Taunton Jason Busk Bryce Fullwood 96 I MARC Cars Australia MARC Focus V8 John Goodacre Peter Major Jordan Love

The Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour commences at 5:45am on Sunday 4 February, with the entire race to be broadcast live on the Seven Network throughout the day.

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