Bathurst 12 Hour

THE 2022 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour grid is set as the Mount Panorama GT classic makes its return after a year away due to COVID.

Koundouris was not cleared medically to race and the team will race with three drivers. Note: The originally entered #47 Audi was damaged in crash on Friday during practice with Theo Koundouris at the wheel, a replacement chassis sent up from Melbourne overnight and prepared at circuit, car to start from pit lane. The five fastest cars in the top 10 from Qualifying ran in one 15 minute session, the five slowest ran in another 15 minute session, while positions 11 onwards were determined by combining the fastest time from Qualifying 1 (driven by Am drivers) and fastest from Qualifying 2 (driven by Pro drivers).

After an initial message that proceedings would begin behind the Safety Car for an indefinite period of time, there was only one additional slow lap before the ...

Gounon pipped highly-fancied Audi youngster Ricardo Feller to P3. Shane van Gisbergen pushed his Triple Eight Mercedes-AMG to fifth for the race.

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The safety car led the pack when the clock started ticking down at 5.15am but soon pulled into pit lane to let the cars loose for green-flag running. Watch the ...

“(The fog) was pretty bad at the start. I don’t know, it’s really bad.” “Probably one of the lowest points of my career, to do that on the outlap,” the 35-year-old admitted. “That’s so dangerous out there. The track was pretty dry over the top and pretty dry down the chase. “When you’re going across the top at 200km/h and you can’t see the next corner or the apex that you’re turning into, it’s game over,” he said.

The two lead Audis pitted behind the safety car and handed over to their respective Am drivers, Liam Talbot and Brad Schumacher. Most of the field pitted during ...

A little after the 2.5-hour mark Feller opted to make his third stop, which dumped him back in the field and handed the lead back to Percat. The green running was short-lived, the safety car once again called again several laps later when the sole KTM X-Bow in the field ground to a halt on Conrod Straight. Most of the field pitted during that caution, some leaving Pros in the car and some following the lead Audis and putting Ams in despite the tough conditions.

Chaz Mostert has claimed his second pole for the Bathurst 12 Hour after producing the seemingly impossible ahead of Sunday's brutal endurance race.

“To do it again is pretty amazing. Originally published as Bathurst 12 Hour 2022: All the latest news, results from the Mt Panorama endurance race Bathurst 12 Hour 2022: All the latest news, results from the Mt Panorama endurance race

Team BRMs #17 Audi leads after three hours at The Mountain, off the back of cracking early stints from Joey Mawson and Nick Percat.

A punctured radiator has been diagnosed, with the team working to get that car back out on track. At the moment, the Craft Bamboo #91 has taken every opportunity to make a CPS, with 7 of the 9 120s stops completed already. This brought much of the field into the pit lane, with the rain heavy on the bottom of the mountain but lighter on the top, forcing a decision between slicks and wet tyres.

Craft-Bamboo Racing leads the Bathurst 12 Hour at the mid-way point thanks to an unusual strategy.

There was worse to come, though, the problem eventually forcing that car into the garage for a compressor change, which took it out of the running. There was a nervous moment for Tse right on the six-hour mark when he glanced the wall coming up to McPhillamy Park. It was a margin the German was able to swiftly run down, the lead changing hands right on the 5h30m mark. The leading Mercedes stopped for fuel and a driver change at the 5h20m mark, Kevin Tse resuming with a 20-second lead over Stolz. Juncadella made a 13th stop for the race right on the 4h30m mark, his lead big enough that he was able to resume with 40-odd seconds still up his sleeve. Luca Stolz made it a T8-run Mercedes two-three in third in the #75 entry, which had served two drive-throughs for restart infringements when Kenny Habul was in the car.

Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing leads at the halfway point of the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour following a wild opening six hours of the race.

Luca Stolz (#75 SunEnergy1 Racing) did pass Tse in the Craft-Bamboo Mercedes before diving in for a pit stop near the end of the sixth hour. Van Gisbergen handed over to Feeney at the same time before the Supercars rookie stopped again a short time later to make way for Prince Jefri Ibrahim, who stayed out of the car in the tricky conditions. A further two Safety Car periods were needed as the fog returned, and by the end of the sixth yellow intervention the Craft-Bamboo Mercedes, which missed qualifying yesterday due to an engine change, had cycled to the front.

A smart strategy play has the #91 Craft-Bamboo Mercedes-AMG in the lead at Mount Panorama. Kevin Tse was at the wheel of the car as the LIQUI MOLY Bathurst ...

This is a modal window. Later, the #777 Audi was slapped with a penalty after Yasser Shahin was found to have breached Safety Car procedure. The first Safety Car was called after Zane Morse crashed his MARC car across the top. It was an equally impressive fightback for the #91 car after two penalties for Kenny Habul. However, the race had been green for two hours once the race hit the halfway point. The first four hours of the race included six Safety Car interventions, two for low-lying fog.

LIQUI MOLY Bathurst 12 Hour organisers are prepared should fog envelop Mount Panorama on Sunday. Sunday's race is scheduled to start at 5:15am local time; ...

This is a modal window. This is a modal window. "The intention is for the race to officially start at the commencement of the formation lap, behind the Safety Car, at 5:15am, as per usual procedure,” said a Bathurst 12 Hour spokesperson.

The two lead Audis pitted behind the safety car and handed over to their respective Am drivers, Liam Talbot and Brad Schumacher. Most of the field pitted during ...

A little after the 2.5-hour mark Feller opted to make his third stop, which dumped him back in the field and handed the lead back to Percat. The green running was short-lived, the safety car once again called again several laps later when the sole KTM X-Bow in the field ground to a halt on Conrod Straight. Most of the field pitted during that caution, some leaving Pros in the car and some following the lead Audis and putting Ams in despite the tough conditions.

Luca Stolz leads the Bathurst 12 Hour heading into the final quarter of the race, while there are no Audis left on the lead lap after a dramatic three ...

The car still had a two-minute compulsory stop to serve as well, the double whammy sending the car a lap down as Nathanael Berthon jumped behind the wheel. The #777 MPC Audi ended up a lap down as part of flurry of stops and didn't even get it back as part of the lucky dog wave around before the race went green, as the car was on the lead lap when the safety car was called. However the #74's race almost unravelled right as van der Linde came in for a stop at the 8h20m mark when the team was told it had to serve a two-minute time penalty for exceeding the maximum driver time. Engel responded a lap later to hand the car back to Tse as the lead Mercedes crews both looked to satisfy their Am driver time. As the stint wore on Engel was able to build his lead over van Gisbergen to around 13 seconds before van Gisbergen pitted to hand over to Prince Jefri Ibrahim on the 7h30m mark. It took less than 20 minutes for the Frenchman to cut the gap down to just seven seconds, only for his charge to be stopped when the Safety Car was called for a sixth time.

Team BRM Audi driver Nick Percat put together a long green flag stint to lead the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour after three hours of racing in challenging ...

Triple Eight Race Engineering’s No. 888 car was the top Mercedes-AMG runner after three hours, with Shane van Gisbergen gaining positions during his first stint. Lee Holdsworth was second at the top of the fourth hour courtesy of a similarly long green flag stint aboard the No. 9 Hallmarc Audi, with Audi factory drivers Feller and Nathanael Berthon running third and fourth after pitting under green. Percat took the restart after an hour and 49 minutes, but the safety car was back out only three minutes later when the M Motorsport KTM X-Bow GT2 stopped with an issue.