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

24 HOURS of Le Mans winner Yasser Shahin will return to the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour to defend his Pro-Am class title in the 2025 race. Shahin, who claimed the LMGT3 class in the iconic around-the-clock French enduro last year, will drive a current-specification Porsche 992 GT3R entered by The Bend and again prepared by Manthey EMA Racing. The car will compete in the Pro-Am class with Yasser to be joined by brother Sam, a former Pro-Am champion in Porsche Carrera Cup Australia, who will make his 12-Hour return this year. The four-up driving squad will be completed by experienced

Motor racing legend Jacky Ickx will return to Mount Panorama for the first time since his 1977 Bathurst 1000 victory, driving the Genesis X Gran Berlinetta Concept in its global racetrack debut. The stunning Genesis X Gran Berlinetta Concept will thrill the crowds at the Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race (31 January - 2 February 2025), as Jacky Ickx gets behind the wheel for a series of spirited demonstration laps across the weekend. This will be the first time anywhere in the world that the X Gran Berlinetta Concept will be seen driven in anger. The Concept was first shown

HALLMARC RACING will return for another Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour attempt in 2025, confirming the return of their Audi R8 LMS to the event along with their familiar and long-term driving trio. Marc Cini, Lee Holdsworth and Dean Fiore return in the traditional red and black-liveried Audi to continue their record as the longest-serving driving partnership in 12-Hour history. The car will again be fielded by Melbourne-based Melbourne Performance Centre / Audi Customer Sport Racing Australia. Cini will start his 13th Bathurst 12 Hour this year, a record of any driver in race history, while 2025 will mark the eighth time