The Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour has claimed its first scalp today, with the #48 Interlloy Lamborghini being officially withdrawn from any further proceedings. Heavy backwards contact into the wall at Hells Corner (turn one) with eight minutes remaining in the fifth and final practice session this morning has seen the entry incur too much damage […]
Read moreOne of the strongest fields ever assembled will contest the 2016 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour at the iconic Mount Panorama. Forty entries, including some of Australia’s and the world’s best drivers, will start on the grid at next month’s endurance event. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ENTRY LIST – including current confirmed drivers. The international […]
Read moreTwo of the best known names in New Zealand circuit racing – Inky Tulloch and John McIntyre – are backing themselves as contenders for the trophy for first New Zealand team, or even the outright winners for this year’s Highlands 101 endurance race. Tulloch and McIntyre, from Gore and Nelson respectively, line up among a […]
Read moreSouthland’s Ian (Inky) Tulloch and Nelson’s John McIntyre claimed an Australasian first at Waikato’s Hampton Downs motor race circuit by winning the three-hour endurance feature at the weekend. Driving the Tulloch Motorsport German-built Sareni Reiter Camaro GT3 car, the pair claimed a lights-to-flag result, finishing 40 seconds ahead of an Audi R8 and endurance specification […]
Read moreTrass Family Motorsport (TFM), New Zealand’s Ferrari Racing Team, left a lasting impression on the 2015 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour before a mechanical failure in the seventh hour of the ‘once around the clock’ endurance race. The world’s top GT3 teams converged on Mount Panorama with 54 cars, drivers from 19 countries, five former F1 […]
Read moreThe hero of Sunday’s Bathurst 12-Hour endurance race wasn’t driving an exotic 300km/h GT racer. It was the crew of a Mt Panorama recovery vehicle who raced to drag a beached Porsche out of the final turn gravel trap and set up a tense two-lap shoot-out involving five different marques as the conclusion to the […]
Read moreIn a race riddled with safety car interventions it was the single car outfit of Nissan Motorsport piloted by Florian Strauss, Katsumma Chiyo and Wolfgang Reip who took victory in the 2015 edition of the Liqui-Moli Bathurst 12 Hour race. The circuit, renowned for incidents involving local wildlife, lived up to its reputation early on […]
Read moreToday’s qualifying has seen Craig Baird come out the best of the Kiwi contingent at the Bathurst 12 Hour after expat New Zealander Steven Richard qualified the Interlloy M Motorsport Lamborghini in eleventh position for tomorrow’s event. The day didn’t start well for the Kiwis after Chris Pither put his Ice Break Racing Porsche RSR […]
Read moreRacing talent from across the globe will descend on Mount Panorama, Bathurst for the 2015 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour next week. The class A (GT3 outright) entry list comprises 29 cars and features 87 drivers – some of them amongst the most successful from across the world of motorsport. ENTRY LIST: Bathurst 12 Hour International drivers […]
Read moreThe first all-New Zealand team to take on the premier race at Bathurst – the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest 12 hour endurance motorsport event – will have their million dollar Ferrari on route to Australia by the end of the week. The Trass Family Motorsport team completed their final shakedown in the Ferrari 458 Italia at […]
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