Event Information | ||||||||
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Round 1 of 5 in the 2025 | ||||||||
Date | 31 January - 2 February 2025 | |||||||
Location | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||
Venue | Mount Panorama Circuit | |||||||
Results | ||||||||
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The 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour (commercially titled 2025 Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour [1] ) is an endurance race for FIA GT3 cars and invited vehicles, staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 2 February 2025. Its the opening round of the 2025 Intercontinental GT Challenge.
After 1 year of being sponsored by Repco brand, the race will now be sponsored by the Meguiar's brand, through a partnership with Australian distributor MotorActive. [2]
Entries were divided into classes based on car type and driver ratings.
Session | Day | Fastest Lap | |||||
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No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Ref | ||
Practice 1 | Friday | 32 | Augusto Farfus | Team WRT | BMW M4 GT3 | 2:02.900 | [37] |
Practice 2 [a] | 14 | Jamie Day | Volante Rosso Motorsport | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | 2:05.106 | [38] | |
Practice 3 | 888 | Maro Engel | Mercedes-AMG Team GMR | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 2:03.851 | [39] | |
Practice 4 [a] | 183 | Liam Talbot | Jamec Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | 2:05.093 | [40] | |
Practice 5 | Saturday | 222 | Cameron Waters | Scott Taylor Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 2:03.693 | [41] |
Practice 6 | 222 | Cameron Waters | Scott Taylor Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 2:02.700 | [42] |
Pos. | Class | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time | |
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Gr.A | Gr.B | ||||||
1 | P | 183 | Ricardo Feller | Jamec Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | 2:01.894 | |
2 | PA | 91 | Laurin Heinrich | The Bend Manthey EMA | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | +0.032 | |
3 | P | 32 | Sheldon van der Linde | Team WRT | BMW M4 GT3 | +0.035 | |
4 | P | 222 | Cameron Waters | Scott Taylor Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.091 | |
5 | P | 888 | Maro Engel | Mercedes-AMG Team GMR | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.136 | |
6 | P | 75 | Luca Stolz | 75 Express | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.221 | |
7 | P | 77 | Lucas Auer | Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.234 | |
8 | P | 26 | Chaz Mostert | Arise Racing GT | Ferrari 296 GT3 | +0.330 | |
9 | B | 9 | Lee Holdsworth | Hallmarc Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | +0.377 | |
10 | PA | 44 | Scott Andrews | Geyer Valmont Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | +0.381 | |
11 | P | 911 | Matt Campbell | Absolute Racing | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | +0.469 | |
12 | P | 46 | Raffaele Marciello | Team WRT | BMW M4 GT3 | +0.493 | |
13 | B | 27 | Ross Gunn | Heart of Racing by SPS | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.504 | |
14 | B | 4 | Fabian Schiller | Grove Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.715 | |
15 | S | 47 | David Russell | Supabarn Tigani Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.765 | |
16 | PA | 36 | Jaxon Evans | Arise Racing GT | Ferrari 296 GT3 | +0.957 | |
17 | S | 93 | Tony D'Alberto | Wall Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 | +1.022 | |
18 | S | 14 | Jamie Day | Volante Rosso Motorsport | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | +1.096 | |
19 | I | 50 | David Crampton | KTM Vantage Racing | KTM X-Bow GT2 | +11.973 | |
20 | GT4 | 19 | Adam Christodoulou | Team Nineteen | Mercedes-AMG GT4 | +14.096 | |
21 | GT4 | 25 | Tom Hayman | Method Motorsport | McLaren Artura GT4 | +14.591 | |
22 | GT4 | 24 | Jake Santalucia | Method Motorsport | McLaren Artura GT4 | +14.643 | |
Source: [43] |
Pos. | Class | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time | |
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1 | P | 77 | Lucas Auer | Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 2:01.276 | |
2 | P | 183 | Ricardo Feller | Jamec Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | +0.125 | |
3 | P | 888 | Maro Engel | Mercedes-AMG Team GMR | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.283 | |
4 | P | 32 | Sheldon van der Linde | Team WRT | BMW M4 GT3 | +0.417 | |
5 | P | 26 | Chaz Mostert | Arise Racing GT | Ferrari 296 GT3 | +0.432 | |
6 | PA | 91 | Laurin Heinrich | The Bend Manthey EMA | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | +0.616 | |
7 | P | 75 | Luca Stolz | 75 Express | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.628 | |
8 | PA | 44 | Scott Andrews | Geyer Valmont Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | +0.658 | |
9 | P | 222 | Cameron Waters | Scott Taylor Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | +0.675 | |
10 | B | 9 | Lee Holdsworth | Hallmarc Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | +0.894 | |
Source: [44] |
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