Why V8 Supercars Had To Buy The Bathurst 12 Hour

Whincup later admitted it was a déjà vu moment having suffered what he thought were unjust penalties in the Bathurst 1000 in 2015 and 16. Brothers Kurt and Jake Kostecki are building towards a shot at the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour after getting their first taste of GT machinery last week.

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A mandatory V8 Supercars test day was held at Sydney Motorsport Park and broadcast on Fox Sports.

Why v8 supercars had to buy the bathurst 12 hour. Supercars could end its season at the Bathurst 12 Hour Supercars has earmarked the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour as a possible final round of the calendar should it lapse into 2021. V8 Supercars is about to wear the full effects of some very harsh realities specifically the reaction of media buyers and sponsors to the tiny viewership on pay TV. Buying the Bathurst 12 Hour means V8SA has alternatives if there is an earthquake in V8 Supercars and were already feeling tremors.

Expect to hear a lot more about the Bathurst 12 Hour in coming years. The V8 Sleuth has released its latest book documenting the amazing decade of GT racing in the Bathurst 12 Hour from 2011 to 2020. THE 2021 Supercars season opener at Mount Panorama will mark the first single-driver ATCCSupercars Championship event to be held at Bathurst in 25 years.

The former for passing the Safety Car. The most anticipated motorsport showdown in Australia came to a head on February 8th with Sydney Motorsport Park playing host to the V8 Supercars Supertest while Australias legendary mountain racetrack Mt Panorama was home to a large international contingent for the annual Liqui-Moly 12 Hour. February controversially saw V8 Supercars hold its pre-season Sydney SuperTest on the same weekend as the 12 Hour effectively barring all of the categorys star drivers from racing at Bathurst.

RUMOURS were confirmed on Thursday when V8 Supercars announced it had taken over the management of the Bathurst 12 Hour race. Pye and DAlberto will join Finnish stars Toni Vilander and Mika Salo in the McDonalds Maranello Motorsport Ferrari 458 GT3 at the February 5-7 event Pye joining more than 10 of his V8 Supercar rivals on grid for the around-the-clock enduro. You can recount the entire journey to this point in part one of the story by clicking here.

The Bathurst 12 Hour could soon be under new organizers as Australian media reports that V8 Supercars is in talks to take over promotion of the GT race at Mt. Supercars Sep 4 2020. Supercars has elected to start its season with the new Mount Panorama 500 in place of the Bathurst 12 Hour which was ruled unfeasible amid travel restrictions due to COVID-19.

The race was first held in 1991 for Series Production cars and moved to Sydneys Eastern Creek Raceway in 1995 before being discontinued. V8 Supercars has completed a deal to purchase the management rights to the Bathurst 12 Hour. Going Global has been a joint project between V8 Sleuth and Race Torque Medias Richard Craill who is undoubtedly the voice of the 12 Hour given his long time involvement in the event.

The other big race at Bathurst is fast becoming a modern classic drawing world-class cars and drivers from across the globe. In an announcement today V8 Supercars confirmed that it will take over management of the race from. Bathurst 12 Hour Clash is a PR Own Goal.

The duo teamed up with Brett Hobson to steer a Nissan GTR GT3 in the Challenge Bathurst sprint event Kurt lapping the quickest of the trio with a 2061920s effort. The Bathurst 12 Hour currently known as the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons is an endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst AustraliaIt is an annual race taking place every February. The Bathurst Grand Final may provide Supercars its greatest spectacle yet but theres a risk it will force the series to face a hard truth.

Supercars scheduled the opening round at Mount Panorama to take advantage of the track booking it held for the Bathurst 12 Hour which was cancelled due to the challenges of getting overseas. Serving a penalty in the 12 Hour would have dropped the car from the lead lap almost certainly ending hopes of a strong result. The Bathurst 12 Hour race has such potential that the V8 Supercars organisation might be convinced to take over the promotion of GT car events.

However the February date created too many. Three hours away a field of 53 cars had entered the Bathurst 12 Hour. The Gold Coast 600 V8 Supercars event had a rule in place which made it mandatory to have a co-driver from an international motorsport.

Supercars already owns and promotes the 12 Hour and on its first post-lockdown schedule had planned to use the event to close the 2020 season. The 320-page hardcover collectors book Bathurst. Scott Pye and Tony DAlberto are the latest V8 Supercars drivers to join the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour grid.

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