PORSCHE MOTORSPORT Australia has announced an expanded version of its highly successful Porsche Michelin Junior Program for 2025. Applications are now open for young drivers intending to contest either the 2025 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Championship, or Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge series, to join the program. The expanded program will continue to embrace a two-day Porsche Junior Camp at the beginning of the season, however, will also expand this year to include regular seminars, coaching, guest speakers and ongoing support for those within the Junior program. The program will encompass not just the physical and mental growth of participants,

FERRARI Factory FIA World Endurance Championship driver Alessio Rovera headlines a strong Arise Racing GT Pro-Am class entry locked in for the upcoming Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour. The 29-year-old Italian will join regular Arise Racing GT pilots Jaxon Evans and Elliott Schutte in the squad’s second entry for Australia’s International Enduro, the quartet to be completed by experienced GT World Challenge Australia ace Brad Schumacher. It completes a strong two-car team from the Perth-based Ferrari team, the Pro-Am entry to compete alongside the Pro class car to be driven by Chaz Mostert, Will Brown and Daniel Serra. Schumacher paired with

METHOD MOTORSPORT will seek to add a Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour GT4 class victory to their already impressive track record, confirming the entry of their pair of McLaren Artura GT4s in this year’s race. Twelve months on from the team’s foundation, Method has seen rapid growth and last year enjoyed a successful year in the Monochrome GT4 Australia Championship; claiming the Pro-Am, Silver and GT4 Teams Championship trophies. That success came following their Bathurst 12 Hour debut which netted them second and third in the GT4 class. Method was founded in 2024 by Chaz Mostert and co-owner Guy McEntyre to

The Victorian State Race Series Inc is thrilled to announce its partnership with Trico Products Australia, as they become naming rights corporate partner for the 2025 VSRS season. This exciting collaboration confirms Trico’s fledgling support of Australian grassroots motorsport, and will see them as title sponsor of the five-event series that visits Sandown Raceway, Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and Calder Park Raceway over the course of this year. As a leader in automotive wiper blade technology, Trico Products Australia is proud to throw its support behind the VSRS, Australia’s premiere state-based circuit racing competition showcasing the best in local

Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific customer team, Absolute Racing, is returning to the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour for the first time since 2020, with Porsche factory driver Matt Campbell and Porsche drivers Ayhancan Güven and Alessio Picariello set to race for the Shanghai-based squad. In the team’s previous visit to Mount Panorama Circuit five years ago, Campbell secured a stunning pole position, Porsche’s first at the event. Alongside Mathieu Jaminet and Patrick Pilet, the trio performed fantastically and was involved in a dramatic battle for the podium, eventually narrowly missing out in fourth. Australian Campbell is a two-time winner at Bathurst, the first

A FIFTY-strong grid has been locked in for the Duggan Family Hotels Bathurst Combined Sportscars and Sedans races to be held at this year’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour. The combined grid expands on the previous format by adding early generation GT machinery to the existing and already diverse grid that has made the category one of the popular additions to the 12-Hour event program. 18 Sports / GT cars have been entered with combination expected to be fierce between a range of older GT3, one-make Porsche and Sports Car entries. Highlights include four Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 cars to be fielded

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Later this month, United Autosports USA – 2024 IMSA Sportscar Weekend race winners, 12 Hours of Sebring podium placers and two-time polesitters - will contest the 2025 Rolex 24 at Daytona and today, the team’s full, ultra-competitive line-up of LMP2 drivers is revealed. In the #2 ORECA 07, reigning IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar LMP2 Champion Nick Boulle will join forces with GT World Challenge Australia Pro/Am multi-race-winner and Asian Le Mans LMP2 podium placer Garnet Patterson, five-time IMSA race winner and 2020 Daytona race winner Ben Hanley (previously announced - read more) and 2022 IMSA DPi Champion, Daytona race winner and