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The Melbourne Performance Centre, which has been the contractual associate for Audi Sport buyer racing in Australia for greater than a decade, fields the race automobiles of 4 different groups in addition to those two GT3 sports activities automobiles. With Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth, the two winners of the Bathurst 1000 touring automotive race final December are amongst the drivers of the personal R8 LMS. Holdsworth, as in earlier editions of the 12-hour race, types the driver trio for Team Hallmarc with Marc Cini and Dean Fiore. Cini has competed 9 instances at Bathurst and has recorded fifth general as his finest outcome. Mostert, final 12 months’s TCR Australia winner with Audi, shares Team Coinspot’s R8 LMS with Fraser Ross and Liam Talbot. Team TB Racing’s driver lineup contains longtime Audi privateer Tony Bates and Supercars touring automotive drivers Dave Reynolds and Cam Waters. Brothers James and Theo Koundouris are joined by Dave Russell and Paul Stokell in Team Supabarn as the solely Audi privateers entered in the Am classification. A seventh Audi completes the line-up. The personal group BRM from Adelaide depends on three personal drivers. Mark Rosser will begin with Nick Percat, a former Bathurst 1000 winner, and Joey Mawson, final 12 months’s S5000 Australia champion.
The race on the demanding 6.213-kilometer course in the Blue Mountains begins as early as 5:15 a.m. native time on Sunday morning, May 15 (9:15 p.m. Saturday CEST). Until dawn, the groups need to show themselves for one and a half hours in the darkish – considerably longer than in the previous, when the 12-hour race was on the calendar at the starting of February. Numerous concrete partitions working near the asphalt, thrilling curves, spectacular uphill and downhill gradients of as much as 16 %, and a complete distinction in altitude of 174 meters elevate the course to the standing of a globally revered circuit. While Australian viewers can watch the race on TV on the Fox Sports, Kayo Sports and Seven channels, the livestream on www.intercontinentalgtchallenge.com presents followers round the world the motion in full size. Audi Sport can be masking the whole 12-hour race weekend on its social media channels.
Teams and drivers at Bathurst
Audi R8 LMS #9 Hallmarc, Marc Cini/Dean Fiore/Lee Holdsworth
Audi R8 LMS #17 BRM, Joey Mawson/Nick Percat/Mark Rosser
Audi R8 LMS #24 TB Racing, Tony Bates/Dave Reynolds/Cam Waters
Audi R8 LMS #47 Supabarn, James Koundouris/Theo Koundouris/Dave Russell/Paul Stokell
Audi R8 LMS #65 Coinspot, Chaz Mostert/Fraser Ross/Liam Talbot
Audi R8 LMS #74 Audi Sport Team Valvoline, Nathanaël Berthon/Kelvin van der Linde/Brad Schumacher
Audi R8 LMS #777 Audi Sport Team Valvoline, Ricardo Feller/Yasser Shahin/Markus Winkelhock