2020 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour (Jan 31 - Feb 2)

[one five five]

Foxtel to show the 2020 12hr live and in full, including practice and qualifying and shootout

Simulcast of the Foxtel coverage live (race only) on FTA on Ch7.....no shootout on FTA is a major loss.

Best of both worlds for the race though, although simulcasts from Foxtel to FTA are a little clunky going by the Supercars telecasts on Ch10, a shame 7 can’t do their own coverage ala Cricket, amongst other things makes the ad break transmissions much smoother

[Maggo]

https://www.endurance-info.com/fr/12...-r-motorsport/

[Maggo]

https://www.supercars.com/news/champ...IkSzBx9x8ySx48

[mayhem]

[Mike Bell]

Where the ‘like’ button.....

[D.R.T.]

Marc Cini, Dean Fiore and Lee Holdsworth locked in again with Audi

[Nick Woodbury]

Originally Posted by mayhem

Castrol liveries are the best liveries! mmmm

[mayhem]

Matt Campbell heads up a strong Porsche lineup.

[mayhem]

Any word on where Mr Lowndes may land? Given he wasnt at Challenge Bathurst with Triple 8, I'm guessing he may be in a different car, with the view to a LM24Hr start?

[rich07]

Originally Posted by mayhem

Any word on where Mr Lowndes may land? Given he wasnt at Challenge Bathurst with Triple 8, I'm guessing he may be in a different car, with the view to a LM24Hr start?

Given the three manufacturers in GT Am at the moment I’d be guessing it’s with one of them. Doubt he’ll be in a Ferrari for B12 as it doesn’t look good on that front. So Porsche or Aston??

[Rodger Davies]

Hmm, I may have missed this, but I assume from the Absolute Racing news that Earl Bamber's team isn't returning next year?

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Rodger Davies

Hmm, I may have missed this, but I assume from the Absolute Racing news that Earl Bamber's team isn't returning next year?

They are, with a Bamber / Vanthoor / 3rd factory driver combo.

I believe the Absolute cars will just be fielding the full season drivers this year

[GregoryDG]

I think this race deserves a provisional entry list.

GT3 Pro

#911 Porsche 911 GT3 R - Matt Campbell/Mathieu Jaminet/Patrick Pilet - Absolute Racing
#912 Porsche 911 GT3 R - Dirk Werner/Thomas Preining/Matteo Cairoli - Absolute Racing
#XX Porsche 911 GT3 R - Laurens Vanthoor/Earl Bamber/TBA - EBM

#62 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - TBA/TBA/TBA - R-Motorsport (might be Silver or Pro-Am)
#76 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Jake Dennis/Scott Dixon/Rick Kelly - R-Motorsport

#XX Mercedes-AMG GT3 - TBA-TBA-TBA - Craft-Bamboo Racing
#888 Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Shane Van Gisbergen/TBA/TBA - Triple Eight Race Engineering (all but confirmed)

#XX Audi R8 LMS GT3 - Christopher Mies/TBA/TBA - Audi Sport Team Valvoline
#XX Audi R8 LMS GT3 - Garth Tander/TBA/TBA - Audi Sport Team Valvoline
#XX Audi R8 LMS GT3 - TBA/TBA/TBA - Audi Sport customer racing Australia

#30 Honda NSX GT3 - TBA/TBA/TBA - JAS Motorsport

#563 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Marco Mapelli/Andrea Caldarelli/Dennis Lind - FFF Racing Team

#7 Bentley Continental GT3 - TBA/TBA/TBA - M-Sport (all but confirmed)
#8 Bentley Continental GT3 - TBA/TBA/TBA - M-Sport (all but confirmed)

#18 Nissan GT-R GT3 - TBA/TBA/TBA - KCMG (second car not yet confirmed)

BMW and Mercedes are yet to announce how many factory supported cars will be entered at Bathurst.

GT3 Silver

#XX Audi R8 LMS GT3 - Geoff Emery/Max Twigg/Tony Bates - Audi Sport customer racing Australia

#XX Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Cameron McConville/Tony D’Alberto/Jules Westwood/Adrian Deitz - Wall Racing

GT3 Pro-Am

#XX Porsche 911 GT3-R - Stephen Grove-Brenton Grove-Ben Barker - Grove Racing

#XX Audi R8 LMS GT3 - Lee Holdsworth/Dean Fiore/Marc Cini - Audi Sport customer racing Australia

[Bcarr6]

3x full pro Audi’s from Melbourne Performance Centre, with Garth Tander as first announced driver

All three cars will be factory backed

[D.R.T.]

Strange of Audi only to announce 1 driver from 9?

[Juntos]

Originally Posted by D.R.T.

Strange of Audi only to announce 1 driver from 9?

It is holiday time in Germany. They will be back to work on Jan 6th.

[tux]

Originally Posted by D.R.T.

Strange of Audi only to announce 1 driver from 9?

Hope one of them will be Mirko Bortolotti dont think hes ever been to Bathurst, will be great to see one of the best GT3 drivers taking on the mountain.

[GregoryDG]

Originally Posted by tux

Hope one of them will be Mirko Bortolotti dont think hes ever been to Bathurst, will be great to see one of the best GT3 drivers taking on the mountain.

For sure Chris Mies, Christopher Haase, Markus Winkelhock, Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor, Fred Vervisch and Mirko Bortolotti will be there. Eight driver should be Patric Niederhauser or Mattia Drudi. Or maybe a DTM driver like René Rast, Robin Frijns or Nico Müller.

[D.R.T.]

What is the latest an entry list has been announced for the Bathurst 12 Hour or significant event?

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by D.R.T.

What is the latest an entry list has been announced for the Bathurst 12 Hour or significant event?

For the 12 Hour well before this.Are they holding back because at the moment they only have a 20 car or less entry?

[D.R.T.]

By the sounds of the cars that were shipped to Australia after Kyalami last year, I can't imagine numbers could be that low.

Seems a strange tactic to delay an entry list this long when cars have been shipped, tested etc

[Tourer]

Organisers put our release re no impact on event from fires.

Elsewhere, I've seen online comments from Mr Craill suggesting that there'll be an entry list tomorrow.

No idea why the delay but we may get an explanation at some stage.

[Akrapovic]

https://www.intercontinentalgtchallenge.com/news/1524

https://www.intercontinentalgtchalle...t_06.01.20.pdf

Entry list.

[Bcarr6]

I believe that will be acceptable.

Interesting name on those mclarens, wondered whether we would actually see 59 Racing and Garage 59 Racing in the same race

Make for some tough comms

[Nick Woodbury]

Oof Only 2 GT4s? And one of them is TBD! Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to the lack of entries in that category? Waning interest perhaps?