Last November Danish ace Allan Simonsen set a new official lap record around Mount Panorama in Bathurst. Simonsen’s record mark is 2:04.956 and was set at the wheel of the Maranello Motorsport Ferrari 458 GT3. Just a couple of weeks ago Simonsen was at it again when he took the same car to a new [...]
So the 2012 Bathurst 12 Hour has been run and won. We’ll start by saying this race should be one of the premiere events on the Australian motorsport calendar. It should comfortably form part of a ‘big three’ alongside the traditional V8 Supercars 1000km race at Bathurst and the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. At [...]
Audi Australia has teamed up with Team Phoenix Racing to bring us this in-car footage from Saturday morning qualifying with Christopher Mies driving a few laps around Mount Panorama in Bathurst. The first lap is a slow warm-up, thankfully, as Mies gets a close look at a couple of our national wildlife icons. After that [...]
We bring you the full audio from the post-race press conference at the 2012 Bathurst 12 Hour race. Asking the questions was Richard Craill, the order of drivers responding is as follows: Team Phoenix (Audi R8 LMS): Christer Joens, Darryl O’Young. Christopher Mies Erebus Racing (Mercedes SLS AMG): Jeroen Bleekemolen, Tim Slade, Brett Curtis, Peter [...]
The #1 Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS wins from the #20 Erebus Racing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and the #33 Clearwater Racing Ferrari 458 GT3. #1 Audi R8 LMS (O’Young, Mies, Joens) 270 laps #20 Mercedes SLS AMG (Slade, Bleekemolen, Hackett, Curtis) +1:13.2 #33 Ferrari 458 GT3 (Sun, Baird, Griffin) -2 laps +1:16.1 Report to follow.
The Bathurst 12 hour is into its second half now and the unexpected wet weather has caused a bit of carnage. Prior to the rain the #17 Ferrari 458 GT3 (first pic after the break) smashed the outright lap record for any category/race at Bathurst when Allan Simonsen recorded a 2:06.33 lap time. To complement [...]
Broadcasting live with Ustream UPDATE 26 February: (1815) The #1 Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS wins from the #20 Erebus Racing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and the #33 Clearwater Racing Ferrari 458 GT3. (1715) With eleven hours safely locked away it now looks like it is Audi’s race to lose. The #1 car enjoys a lead of [...]
The #1 Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS (Mies, O’Young, Joens) has claimed pole position for tomorrow’s Bathurst 12 Hour race. On aggregate time they finished one second ahead of the #17 Maranello Motorsport Ferrari 458 GT3 (Simonsen, Farnbacher, Bowe, Edwards). The #33 Clearwater Racing Ferrari 458 GT3 (Sun, Baird, Griffin) was just two one hundredths [...]
In this morning’s qualifying session for the 2012 Bathurst 12 Hour the #17 Il Bello Rosso Ferrari 458 GT3 continued to head the field. Allan Simonsen maintained his good form to record a best time of 2:08.2244, ahead of the #2 Phoenix Racing Audi (2:08.9396) and the #33 Clearwater Racing Ferrari 458 GT3 (2:09.0096). There [...]
Allan Simonsen sent a warning that he and his Ferrari 458 GT3 would mean business at this year’s Bathurst 12 Hour when he set a new lap record around Mount Panorama last November. And so it proved in yesterday’s practice when he was the fastest man on track setting a time of 2:08.2824. That’s still [...]
After the break you can access the full entry list for the 2012 Bathurst 12 Hour race. Use it as a quick reference during the race if you like. For the record, there’s 27 cars in total: 3 x Audi 5 x BMW 2 x Ferrari 1 x Ford 2 x Holden 2 x Lamborghini [...]
Competitive action for the 2012 Bathurst 12 Hour weekend starts tomorrow. There’s a number of support categories this weekend too, but it’s the 12 Hour race that’s the main show. After the break we’ve listed all the practice, qualifying and race times for 12 Hour race. The full race program can be accessed from the [...]
The new to Australia BMW M5 will handle the official Safety Car duties at the Bathurst 12 Hour race this weekend. It follows on from BMW’s Safety Car program overseas which sees the F10M involved in the MotoGP series. Piers Scott, BMW Group Australia Head of Corporate Communications, is pleased to see the M5 take [...]
Bathurst 12 Hour race title sponsor Armor All will return with a cash bonus for the pole position winners at this year’s race. It’s a relatively modest $5000 that will be split evenly between the drivers. Event Director James O’Brien welcomes to the continuing support, “Qualifying is only a small part of the 12 Hour [...]
In further good news for Bathurst 12 Hour organisers the Anglo-American United Autosports teams has confirmed they will be bringing their Audi R8 LMS down under to compete in the race (24–26 February). At the wheel will be US-based South African Mark Patterson, Hong Kong’s Frank Yu and Hong Kong-based Frenchman Alain Li. With an [...]