The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour, is an endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, Australia. It is an annual race, taking place every February. The race was first held in 1991 for Series Production cars and moved to Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway in 1995 before being discontinued. The race was revived in 2007, again for production cars, before adding a new class for GT3 and other GT cars in 2011. This has led to unprecedented domestic and international exposure for the event. In all, eighteen races have taken place; seventeen at Mount Panorama and one at Eastern Creek Raceway.
Website: https://www.bathurst12hour.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bathurst12Hour/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bathurst12hr/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bathurst12hour
#B12hr #Bathurst12hr #MountPanorama
Race and then the lights on the safety car go out and you can resume racing so 16 down will all get that and get back on the lead lap and every safety car we get more and more cars end up back on the lead lap of the race yeah I think
The first safety car there was still only 11 cars on the lead lap so we’re buying more contenders back into the race with the lucky dog which is great news there they go scurrying off around trying to get to the back of the queue but unfortunately here comes the BMW car
Not far behind will be the Porsche Fair had steam the safety car getting back in the pit Lane that should yeah and an electric Mort to help it along now so this is the third different uh driver for the leading Porsche where does m chanen gone he’s gone really early so
That’s the earliest of anybody there G and he’s going to have to break it in the final corner and Valentino Rossy right there had a decent restart last time around uh when he was chasing van this waving this field need to make hay while the sun shines now because the
Weather is on its way they were driving straight towards it now so almost halfway through this race how long into this s can they go very wide The Vortex off Scott Taylor Motorsport car Craig LS behind the wheel taking evasive action Ross gun behind the wheel of Heart of racing the 27 AMG
Was the same up the inside goes Brock pheny Big Move gets it done on Joel Erikson for fourth place track position critical in this race that’s a nice one so Mercedes AMG get themselves into the top four so it’s now Porsche BMW Audi Mercedes the four key brands in this
Race in the top four positions outright as they run up the shelf for the first time so good restart aan Kangen Valentina Rossy still behind the wheel of 46 Chris haza is now in that orange Audi Brock FY doing Brock things after four yeah that number 22 looking ominous
Again that right orange and blue add in the hands of the rabbit Mara is rabbit in German so obviously that became his nickname straight away good little Battle Pack following on behind as well just noticing G Walden up to eighth spot in the M Motorsport AMG Mercedes bronze
Driver up there with the full Factory drivers that team did not hit at that last safety cast so that’s why they’ve got themselves up the road and I wonder whether they didn’t H because they looked out out the front of the garage and went it’s probably going to rain in
The next four or five laps and we’re going to be back in pit Lane anyway so why not get a bit of track position and get ourselves in the game so G Walden has Ricardo fella right in his rear Vision mirror fella has a look up the
Inside does he get the job done yes he does Walen lets him go and that’s Philipe Fraga follows fell through so Walden’s given up a couple of spots but still they’ve gained a lot of track position out of that it is temporary you do have to come to the lane at some
Stage but they’re banking on that very dark sky opening up and having to come to pit Lane for wet and now it’s a straight out battle for the boyel Pro Am class between G Walden and Ross gun just behind in the 27 car so that becomes first and second in class with Jordan
Love not that far behind in the three Mercedes amgs so the race within the race Lee holsworth just sticking the head out to see what the weather’s going to do he knows where it comes from absolutely yeah rain affected with the year he won the great race was they not
Which CH mustard make the point here gentlemen it’s slick pelli tires all wet pelli tires there are so if it does get wet coming back off out of the wet you have to wait until you’re going to be happy on the Slicks again yeah and it’s a very
Durable wet Tire it’s the pelli w is a very durable one so you can take it a reasonable distance into a dry line before you switch back to slicks but Engineers live their life on XL spreadsheets and they will say well it’s going to be faster on a slick so I don’t
Care if it’s wet or dry here’s a slick Tire yeah so I’ve had many an argument with an engineer over that one over the years and the other point to make on tires is that your tire allocation which was 48 tires 12 sets are 12 slick sets
Your wet witha the tires are uh allation yeah basically because it’s a safety measure of course you can’t run out of where the a safe tire for the conditions yeah the McLaren GT4 cars again in formation flying trying their best to stay out of way of this very angry pack
Of GT3 cars as they make their way down Conrad straight have I missed the bunge C between those two the CL arteriors because they’ve barely been more than half a second or a second and a half away from each other the whole racing it seemed that every time our leaders make
Their way through those two cars are line of stern they’re actually a couple of laps separated between the Cars one lap separated between the two cars but they’re always on track together that’s for sure this is F position in the proam class Jordan love looking down the
Inside of Ross gun couldn’t quite get it done so Walden gun love 48 2788 the three numbers those three Mercedes amgs that is for the class win and just behind them is har King who’s got himself back onto the lead lap and the young Brit who is very very fast is
Going after them in the second of the Manti EMA Porsches he’s got Craig Craig louds up his tail pipe as well so that that’s going to be instructive for for har remember we had Yas shahim uh nerfed off the track at the top of the mountain
Uh lost a lap they’ played the looky dogs as well as they could to get it back in there that’s three safy car restarts in a row where those two poor McLarens have found themselves utterly mugged by all of the leaders within about 20 seconds of going back to green
Exact term I was going to use M what are you meant to do so the number nine Hallmark Audi doing its best to stay out of the way Marken at the wheel of that one trying to stay offline so hard to do across the top of the mountain stays to
Circuit left for the run to Skyline nice job yeah actually break to stay out the way not even just a a little LT now they get to the mar car and the IRC GT this going to be interesting down con cu th go two can Mor on a little bit we’ve seen
This all day in waves when we catch the lap traffic you catch it in W imposed a pit Lane penalty drive through to car 911 BR safety car procedure waving after lighter out yeah another International driver caught out by the rules here in Australia as we go
Back to the lead G gets the job done up the inside Rossy follows him through as does har look at the cube forming behind though oh not done yet Ericson went left but had to go right to get past and down the inside the CeX car tried to make a
Hole where there wasn’t one craft bamboon kept Daniel yadel still not it’s still not done yadel trying to get up the inside for the run now oh there’s no room on the inside there it’s sh on behind the wheel of 75 he’s got track position out of that he’s got
A spot gets in front of Ricardo fella and off the road goes the triple one car busy little moment well we heard from Craft bamboo they said we’re going to keep the Spaniard stashed away until the second half of the race we’re not quite there yet but here has been unleas and
Tried to make a hole where there wasn’t one but good stuff Dany yadel up to sixth place for craft bamboo who just been quietly creeping up on it today they were they were Strangely I think the words Anonymous last year they just weren’t quite in the Mixel race but much
Stronger performance this time around so so far so good team watching on going what’s going on see himself that he sees himself I’m trying to watch where mar car is 3 minutes to halfway get the halfway their memes ready #b12 HR great scrapping once again over the top of the
Mountain withs the be horned very sharply here I get terrified when I see cars hit that curb on the inside and Ricardo Feller just kissed it with the rear corner of the KFC Audi AS hanang goin’s doing an awesome job siing his way through this traffic
Rossy matching him and just held up by the lambo he’s got Adrien Deets the Am driver behind the wheel as they run out of the elbow and have a look at Brock feny he wants a move on Chris haer and the big Merks got in the toe of the oui
And there is a straight line speed advantage to the AMG GT3 relative to the Audi he won’t do it on Conrad what about under breaks into the chase hasard defends Rossy just in front they can all see the race leader you see as they went down conrod har didn’t defend all the
Way just left three4 of a car width to the inside and feny wasn’t going to be able to get down the inside look at Rossy having a crack for the lead so Rossy trying to use the lap traffic to his advantage we talk about the triple 2K team you’ve
Got snakes and ladders in their garage we’re seeing it live here today so a point that’s been said to me by Dean Brennan out in the US is Rossy here we’ve talked about him more than holding his own he’s only at the start of his career in terms of this level of
Racing the guys around him have all been doing it for years how much better is he going to get this is only one year that he’s been doing this it’s like when you’re training a driver you find the big chunks of lap time in big chunks and
Then when you get closer to the front the gains are far more incremental but you have to be impressed I mean we we marveled at what a job Valentino Rossy did last year to see the Improvement 12 months on to be doing what he’s doing now forget about the lap times the
Racecraft is what’s impressed me the most the way that he’s got his way through traffic and not given up lap time to these guys that live in these race cars and have done since they were born effectively so for me it’s not the lap time that’s impressive it’s the
Racecraft and the positioning of his car relative to the lap traffic #b12 HR de volock says can we just recount how many cars are actually out there at the moment it seems to be far more now than there were when we started that was just an insane R start you’re not wrong David
But I promise you we have not no one sneaked in the back where with a couple of race cars let’s have a look at the counter top left corner of your screen we’re now in the second half of the race six hours down six to go in the
Repco Ba’s 12 out and 3 seconds cover the top five cars and there are 16 cars on the lead lap of the motor race going into the second half so this is all to play for with the threat of weather impending had several reports that it is
Actually going to happen w it’s one of those things at this place you never believe it until you actually see everyone’s looking at me and sending messages going no no it’s actually going to happen today yeah they’ve said that every day this week yeah I’ve been here enough
Rich you been here enough now to know that until the actual black stuff is wet you don’t believe it it’s the old weather rock theory It Rock wet raining the wind has picked up a little bit as I say that the flag poles are little outside our window but I looked
At them 30 seconds ago G don’t shake your head and they were blowing around so it is a bit Gusty at the moment let’s call it Gusty Chad I’ve uh I’ve come up here to the 12-hour club guys because I found Kristoff from bosel Watchers who are sponsoring our pram class he both
Give us a weather update as well as tell us all about whether not we’re going to be giving out some watches here today Kristoff tell us about bosel Watchers because I’ve been having a well I’ve been drawing over these watches actually for the last 5 minutes now tell me a bit
About the company thanks CH well we are bzel australas watch since 2011 we made watches so we from the Sydney from Sydney norshore in and uh We’ve made watches for the rran Air Force for the rran regimen so a lot for the defense uh and we are lucky
Since last year to be the official watch of the B 12 hour uh we absolutely love it here we did a watch last year which was uh a tribute to liqu mly was the last year as a sponsor so we did Red and Blue on the on the on the Basel for them
To for the watch and this year we did a watch that’s completely different uh it’s green so first we we use a 316 L uh sand blasted uh surgical grade steel uh that we put with a black uh IP coating gives a very racing look to the watch
And then we went with a green uh dial a green dial because it’s green here in mon pan Panorama but also because of the latest uh logo of the Batters I don’t know if you saw it’s it’s absolutely brilliant a lot of colors and we picked
Up on the green uh it has patters 12 hours 720 minutes but the feature that I love the most is actually the case back so you can you can wear it upside down if you want won’t tell if you want it’s not great to tell the time but it looks
So good it has an open case back which is the first time that we’re doing that at bzel so so it shows the movement the beautiful Swiss made automatic watch uh movement inside you can see through transparency and uh that’s one of the best feature of the watch and also
Something that I forgot to mention uh is that we’re only doing 100 watches so last year’s watch sold out this year’s watch we’re doing 100 12 for the winners of the race and 88 for the general public to BU they have a little bit of something in the crown either Mount
Panomama panorama Rock for the winners or there is a TI marble from the racetrack here from GT3 in in the crown beautiful I love the the tiny little bit of detail from Mount Panorama makes it even better Kristoff well done and the lucky winning drivers from pro and pro
Will be a to take these home today how cool is that nice Chad time pieces winning major endurance race are a bit of a tradition around the world so I love that we’ve got an Aussie company to do the job so there’s been a change of position Chris
Haza has has slipped his Audi R8 LMS past Valentino Rossi who now finds himself defending from brocki with Joel Erikson just in behind them as well so this is the battle for third fourth and fifth place and I just I don’t want to do the dramatic it’s going to rain thing
But as we have a look at this moment so it was an error from Rossy at the top of the chase that dropped him off the road and harza was able to take advantage just got a message from cam who works for Ford in the PR department he said
Raining hard 5 minutes from the race track so we going to roll we heard that here before as well I’m rolling with it we’ve heard this before let’s hear from Shane pit Lan well let’s get some more local Intel Brad shimak you call this place home you’ve seen this weather your
Entire life is it going to rain you know uh if you look out towards the uh Southwest it looks like the world’s about to end so uh usually if the weather comes from that direction then it does rain uh looking at it and the clouds are rising quite rapidly I’m
Thinking for sure we’re going to get a shower it was a rough start for your team in NPC in particular for the the start of the bronze session got all the bad luck out of the way race has been going pretty well so far I’m not going
To jinx anything but your duties are you going to get back in the car I know you want to yeah no I did my stint this morning uh did quite a good job of it left the car in a good position for the guys of course uh Winky and Ricardo are
They’re the stallion drivers in this team I’m just here to try and top up the numbers uh but yeah I’ve been put on notice so for sure maybe back in the seat again just not quite sure when that’s super exciting I mean it’s not every day you get to drive at this track
For you it is but not at speed what’s the mentality shift for you when all of a sudden you’re allowed to drive it as fast as you want not just 60k um I mean the mentality doesn’t really change I guess uh for me I’ve been racing long enough but it’s more
About just uh concentrating on doing my job as well as I can for the Audi team and of course I’d give anything to win here at baist this is uh literally all I’m asking for in this racing community is to take a win here at the B is 12
Hour for me this is a holy grail of Motorsport and uh yeah I really hope we can get a good result today never know when the Mountain’s listening good luck Brad please Mountain Gods please yeah might have to just have a a little prayer to the racing gods of Mount
Panorama into the second half of the race and Chan Goen still leading by B 4 seconds now CH yes now guys I wanted to sneak this in before the rain con because I’ve loaded this thing up two or three times and it’s been safety car
There it all goes again so I’ve got to load it up before the rain will come and that’ll obviously change things again when they all pit if they need to for wet but there’s a few guys that we didn’t get to talk about a little bit
Earlier on so let’s dive into the prey pit bunker and just open up our live dri stints because there’s a few teams here that have had updates since we last spoke so we know now that this car unfortunately the BMW has had their crash so we can pretty much discount the
32 but G you were asking earlier about car 13 so I’ve added it to my tracking list today and this is how they’ve gone so far so they’ve gone Evans Erikson Boo and then repeat they’ve only done that one half stin which is when the safety car came out and they’re back continuing
Now in their what would be that 1 2 3 4 5 six in of the race now check how almost identical that looks to that okay so what they’ve done I love this right how good is this genius thinking from the Third they’ve gone okay guys quick strategy meeting Mante
Racing are really good at this why don’t we just do whatever they’re doing okay everybody ready great so all they’re doing right now is just following exactly what K 912 is doing they’ve got a Porsche they’ve got a Porsche so hang on we got three drivers they’ve got
Three drivers we’ll just do what they’re doing so that’s actually pretty clever no need to go recreating everything when there’s a team down the road doing it I have spotted one team doing something a little bit different Rich plays inlighten me Chad and is it car 77 it is
Well done because if you’re ever going to find a way that there’s one team when you think you can’t do anything different it’s craft bamboo we saw that a few years ago where they decided to piit four times every single lap it felt like and what’s missing from here guys
What can you tell me what’s missing from that there’s some white in that graph that I can’t see there yes now the reason would be that Daniel junell has only just got in on that last safety car so he’s actually competing in the bath of 6 hour here today because he did not
Drive at all in the first 6 hours OJ did a nice job at his first time here in an AMG car to say all right he’s pretty much done anything that he needs to do I’d probably expect gz and junella to just get the job done only real
Advantage of that is that Daniel’s nice and fresh and ready to go so they’ve saved some time for Daniel junella to be nice and ready to just keep driving through the afternoon that could really help particularly in a wet dry race when fatigue could player Factor but question
Without notice and I know you don’t have the exact drive time on that graph Chad but does that reduce some flexibility for their stins at the end given they’ve already used a chunk of time for their other drivers yeah it’s pretty pretty similar to what the the guys are doing
With the loophole rule or the Kenny rule uh similar to cars 222 and 75 where they’ve backed themselves into a little bit of a corner but you can go stint 1 hour stints the whole way to the checker flag and just use those drivers worst case scenario you just put a fast kid
Like Jay o Jada back in the car the only time that’ll catch you out which is what I was saying before the BMW went backwards in the fence earlier is that if you get a safety car around 45 minutes into a stin that puts you in a
Little bit of a freak strategy territory which obviously didn’t happened last year when we went 5 hours green to the checker flag yeah you’re right and we yet to see if that will be the case again the other one I suppose is 46 who has done a really good job all right
Where’s the lone remaining BMW at okay well probably coming in for wets if I look at those clouds out there anytime soon but uh if you have a look at the stratey strategy graph for the 46 car Martin Rossy in martiello uh for Lelo he
Only did a little bit of driving in the early part of that race they’ve been pushing the 32 lap marker whenever they can and at the moment we’ve had two SS for Martin a little double for martiello and then Rossy in the car right now so it’s not that Rossy slower anything but
You’d expect that they’d be doing the Martin martiello trick at the end of the race nice work in the py pit bunker the only final question again without notice Chad is did you score yourself a watch I did not unfortunately he’s a pretty tall lad was Kristof down there so I wasn’t
Going to try my luck and running away from him he told me I went for a very nice manly beach this morning just think about that for second that’s like 4 hours away from where we’re standing so that’s pretty impressive that he’s G he borrow your chopper did he borrow your
Chopper to get here Chad no he had to go on Wheels actually tough for some thanks Chad down in the prle pit bunker be more strategy updates as the race goes on it’s got the massive spreadsheet operating down there tracking all of the various numbers and uh it could get even more
Complicated as this race evolves given what we think is to come this continues to evolve as a battle three and four on the road Valentino Rossy being chased by Brock FY you mentioned off air just a little bit before G that there’s a little storyline here because there’s great motorcycling
Heritage between both of these families uh Brock fen’s dad Paul was B of a legend of the two wield scene here and raced at Mount Panorama we’re going to give you a bit of an idea about who sits where in the field so that is the race leading Porsche heading up into
Turn two there’s the battle behind Rossy the Porsche the Mercedes and then jul gonan then we find Ricardo fella being harassed by Felipe frager and Jordan love Ross gun is next second in the proam class and then we find G Walden has just dropped back off that
Leaderboard Craig LS is 13th Harry King will be next he’s 14th on the road still on the lead lap only 38 seconds behind the race leader at this point is the sh V power car from man Tha EMA and then it’s quite a way back to Marcel
Zura who’s jump behind the wheel of the silver class Valmont racing AI R8 that’s done such a good job today Luke yon and Brad Shields sharing that car with Marcel and his mate Sergio Perez IRC GT Jeff emry behind the wheel of car 702 with a Lamborghini just in behind with
Adrian de behind the wheel and that is a car in the wall on the run down into the rep Cod Dipper off of Brock Skyline it’s the Superglass racing IRC uh GT from mat Stone racing and John Hollinger behind the wheel of what was the class leading
Car 19th outright leading the class and instantly the timing screens go yellow 15 seconds to slow down and Chan gven again when he has built up a wee bit of a buffer he’s going to be hauled P back so what if we had since the last
Safety car well 10 12 laps 12 laps in this stint for these drivers so I mean we’ve seen them pit with less before and we are getting some reports of rain in the lane as well as Valentino Rossi blazes through pit entry what tide he
Put on get the car down to 40 km an hour Chad what’s it doing not feeling a heap of it in the lane at the moment but I just wonder we’ve seen so many teams elect to pit at the end of a safety car window which is typically very strange
Are you better to just wait right now wait for the weather wait to see if you better to be pitting in two laps strictly for the sake of tires and switching to a wet side cuz if you got in a slick right now you might find yourself back here in about 5
Minutes that’s a good point Chad like I would have waited there was a late call Val didn’t even get the belts loosened when he unlipped them so wasn’t fully prepared by the time he pulled up at the pit box and with the threat of weather
As soon as that safety car came I was like right do you pit now or do you just just wait because the weather is coming we expect it is going to run you can see it it is actually dropped coming from and that’s a Skyline so it’s
Starting how much how intense is that rain going to be so here’s Hollinger oh down to number two KFC he was right there it was the smoke that’s usually fire says the racing driver and race control takes a very dim view of pro drivers making contact with am drivers
They’ called an audible wow absolutely called and AUD because they they had brand new slicks on the car and now they are going to a wet it doesn’t matter though does it because it’s 85 seconds and B you’re under so you’re going to get a back if you’re in the Lan now it’s
Well now have we gone too early yeah it’s a it’s a great game they are right in the real tricky point do you do it now but there’s more range there’s certainly more rain coming down so that’s the bottom of the mountain it’s still not wet enough for wets but
They’re banking that by the time we go green it will be wet enough for wets so they’re ahead of the curve if it does rain hard but everyone else has stayed out and look at the size of those drops like this is proper BST thunderstorm type rain that’s big ploppy drops is the
Technical term for thaty yeah what was it oh what was it big drop yeah got to write that down Scott Taylor Motorsport in the lane driver change so Craig LS jumps out wrt looking at their Radars busily what are this team going to do try and shut
The door for one so there obviously been a bit side to side contact with that car what tire do they put on it slick I wonder if that’s a warm slick it is a warm slick is it yeah so here we go that’s what we’re right in that tricky
Period where probably too wet for slicks and not wet enough for wets part of the new rco B 12h hour merchandise range there the very nice new umbrella will be put to good use we think so the fields at 80 km an hour they’ll catch up to the BMW safety
Car while pit stops unfold for some the W racing Lamborghini is in the lane as well what a shame for the IRC GT team and the rain falls the M it’s wets that’s all you needed to see generally work on the ratio of wet versus dry on the ground and uh when
It’s more wet than dry that’s good enough for wet yeah that is that is going to get very wet very quickly and we’ve had a a decent bit of time where the the sun has been covered by the clouds so there’s not that much heat in the tarmac either so it’s not
Going to evaporate so easily five and 3/4 hours to go and we’ve got more drama and this time it’s been provided by Mother Nature the field is under the control of the BMW XM safety car the race is under the control of the rain at the moment
Because it is raining at Mount Panorama we’ve talked it and talked it and it’s happened as the recovery is underway on the entry to the Repco Dipper at the top of the hill for the Superglass racing IRC GT Invitational class entry with John Hollinger behind the wheel has had
An incident there we understand there may have been contact with a GT3 car that was trying to place them another lap down we’ll confirm that as we watch on B well this might give us the answer was squeezed against the wall on the entry at Brock Skyline down through the
S’s it was certainly contact was 100% contact but the run to Skyline wow that had ER attention so Hollinger potentially didn’t see that Ricardo fellow had a run on him and then ultimately there was contact in the sers going down to the deer we’re under safety car once the safety car boards
Came out the sky opened and Rain began to fall and yes it is certainly going to be wet enough now for Easy Choice now G isn’t it really it’s wet so 46 pitted first and they rolled the dice mid Pit Stop to put wet tires on the BMW and a
Raphaeli martiello in the Wheelhouse so it’s a pretty good combination between the two of them so they’ve already done their Pit Stop they were first in they might get a little bit of track position game out of that as well Matt Campbell’s aboard the race leading 912 Porsche gets the belts nice and tight wet weather paries on this car so 912 pitted Joel Erikson pitted car number 13 that’s the Phantom Global racing Porsche Daniel yadel for craft bamboo racing in the calex car now car number 22 stayed out Chris haza has not
Pitted the wash it Audi from Audi Sport team NPC and remember that Audi it looks like an R8 cuz it is an R8 but it’s not Quattro the road car is Quattro you’re not allowed all-wheel drive in GT3 racing but also staying out brocken Jon
On Ricardo F in the two car and Jordan love in the Jor motor racing8 from Triple Eight Race Engineering so the five leading cars yet to stop as well they will you think unless they think it’s a passing shower G Tander has been out and he’s he’s he’s a little Dum no
Well I we we’ve got the r radar up here on the computer screen and we all have it on our phones but still the best way to hear B this is absolutely to step outside and check check it out and whilst it does look quite bad there it
Doesn’t actually look like a big front looks like it’ll pass quite quickly so I’m tipping teams are hanging out to the last possible moment to see what the weather’s going to do here so the rain is falling at ba and rain at buffest is just I often say for
Excitement Just Add Water we don’t really even need to do that here at Mount Panorama but it is very very wet it’s big drops Chad nland is down in the pit Lane have you got your Broly Chad uh I don’t need it thankfully in the prelli
Pit bunker John but what I was keeping an eye on in the chaos then was the pit stop times most of which have been around the 85 second Mark now unless I’m seeing numbers that were incorrect I had car 912 in the pits for 64 seconds and
They did a driver change so just keep that in the back of your mind at the moment right thank you it did it did get my attention when Matt Campbell left the pit box that it looked scrambled like mdy was looking into the pit bunker he wasn’t control wasn’t looking at the car
Controller probably was getting a lot of chat on the radio looked like there was a lot of confusion going on there so do does correlate with what you said Chad that potentially there was some confusion around the pit stop time there so we think then at the front of the field Chris
Haer is on slick tires in the 22 out Triple Eight Brock FY still on slicks Shi goodon in the 75 selenity one EMG still on six Ric Ricky F yeah Jordan love as well I think the first car on a wet so and this car when we saw it in
The lane last had left with a warm slip I’d agree with that I don’t know whether they’ve come back back and grab the wet or not McLaren arer going on to wet tires and a new set of tires going on the Hallmark Audi as well and that was a slick pelli coming
Off course the longer you wait the better chance you have of of working out what whether you actually need to change while you behind the XM safety car oh have a go at this so har is going to get stuck behind the Tilt tray that’s bringing in the car that’s brought out
The safety car let’s hear from Shay and pit Lane a little bit of extra Intel guys on that mat Campbell kerfuffle when they went to do the driver change Matt’s radio didn’t get plugged in and Anon actually had to go back in the car again John opening the door and trying to get
To the radio to plug it in as soon as he closed the door was when the pit board went up which officially releases the car but it hasn’t always been the indicator of when the driver then leaves so that could have been a little bit more confusion and a little bit more
Stress and just to let you guys know we are now seeing rooster tales in full force down the front straight and a storm warning has just been issued on all the local TVs so if you’re a fan around the track you might want to see shelter at this point both of the Audi
Have just come in from the pro class both the 2 and the 22 it will will be tire changes for both cars no driver no fuel and they are going to fall wet for Ellies if that radial wasn’t plugged in then they couldn’t tell him to wait
Either for the 85 seconds so that could be a problem Repco BS 12 hour highlights we’re into the second half of the race now wow there’s some stuff that’s played out already and so much more to come this start feels like a long time ago
All of a sudden with the this race has changed and evolved as the weather now Falls at Mount Panorama this was the vortex car 701 in the gravel at the top of the hill that was the first safety card this was the second count number 91
Into the fence hard at the entry to visit New South Wales Corner controversial moment yes as you again turned around Glen wood the GT driver with the contact at mcil Park racing has been properly intense as you’d expect some of the world’s best drivers going at it very very good cars hugest moment
Of the race so far around the outside of the laped Janetta and the race leading BMW of Charles VZ behind the wheel LED early was right in the mix at that point crunched into the fence hard on the entry to The Cutting and then out of the
Race and then not that long later the jetta’s tough old day continued with damage on the run down the hill this is Brock VY putting a move up the inside turn two nice pass and then a little error from Valentino Rossy the first of the
Weekend not the only one to do it today though and that caused him to drop some track position and then this is the reason we’re currently under the control of the BMW safety car was contact between the KFC Audi and John Hollinger in the IRC GT car and just as the field
Needed to get to pit Lane when the safety car was called the heavens opened and a really busy moment with some of our leading cars caught up behind a recovery vehicle entering pit Lane this is how things stand with 5 hours and 30 minutes to go under safety
Car the ply leaderboard shows car 912 still leading the race with Matt Campbell now behind the wheel Bastion boost that car up to Second Place the Phantom Global racing Porsche so they one and two and craft bamboo racing up to third place with Danny yilla behind the
Wheel over the page so can number two’s Dro back to 11th after that pit stop they were last to stop as people throw wet weather tires at their cars and then you can see the class leaders a little bit further down um we’re down three cars at least at the moment class
Leaders thanks to boy cell Campbell and James leading the proam battle Sergio Perez still leads the way in Sila John Hollinger was leading the Invitational class and I think they had a couple of laps up their sleeve actually prior to that accident and then Marcus black doing a nice job in car
25 so that’s the scene that’s the famous Mount Panorama sign and GTH you stuck your head out the back of the commentary box just moments ago I did the same what you didn’t mention was that the atmosphere is as electric as the skies at the moment and you could cut the
Tension out there with a cricket stump the air so thick it is properly dramatic out the back of the paddock everyone scrambling to work out what’s going on Spectators taking shelter corporates not so much they’re pretty happy everyone in the suits up above the garages on pit Lane having a
Very very nice day those new shelters on pit straight they’re a welcome addition for the sun and the rain so that’s worked out nicely good point yeah so now the whole complexion changes GTH uh what what are you going to be changing on the car as a driver what are the T
Put wet tires on that’s going to raise the car up a little bit as well they have a little higher little bit probably 2 mm of ride height the car comes up uh the first thing you’ll do is you’ll change the ABS setting on the car you’ll change the traction control setting on
The car so um most cars have got between 9 and 12 settings for depending on the manufacturer depend for abs and traction control and some of those settings are dedicated solely for the wet so probably three settings in the ABS for wet three or four settings in the traction control
For the wet as well and um the engineers will be on the radio letting the drivers know based on the amount of water on the track what sort of settings to start with and then it comes down to driver field and car balance so we’ve had absolutely zero wet weather running some
Of the boys on the top of the mountain pretty happy with it probably enjoying a a cool change with the weather Blowing in we’ve had zero dry weather run a wet weather running in practice and qualifying leading up into this one and for memory I think 22 was the last time
We had some wet weather running and that was early in the morning so not these sort of TR more tropical conditions that we have here today it felt like half an hour ago those that had umbrellas up were shading themselves from the Sun and give it 30
Minutes at Mount Panorama and it is a tropical thunderstorm coming at you this is under safety car Daniel bilsky behind the wheel of The Prestige IO GT4 car run by Mark Griffith’s team a little moment the IRC GT just in behind that’s the car that Paul Tracy is
Part of we had him in the commentary box earlier today former champ car World Series champion that’s the scene right now at Mount Panorama in less than 7 Days time what will happen at the Thrifty bath list 500 it’s part of Superfest which rolls all the way through the week grab
Your tickets at superc cars.com now and if you are watching overseas as part of the massive car dve people all around the world checking out this race superc cars.com superview we’ll have live coverage for you for international viewers someone who will be part of the Thrifty Bist 500 next week for walking
Shore and Freddy United at part of his own race team this weekend method Motorsports Chaz moard hello Chazzy how are you good day guys how you going extremely well thank you uh I’d like to talk to you first about how you’re negotiating these restarts when you are
Getting being attacked by GT3 cars at every point of this circuit well yeah first of all it wouldn’t be B without throwing a midra raining so um yeah thanks ba Gods um but yeah look it’s uh it’s pretty fun to be honest I feel like
I try to make it a bit harder for the gd3 guys this year I feel like I’m just trying to mix it in maybe a little underpowered and a little bit under gripped but um it doesn’t last very long and then they disappear from me and then
I generally see them in about eight or nine laps time ch ch new race team method Motorsport you’re part of this for those that might not be aware of it just tell us about the team and how your involvement came about yeah um kind of last year I thought about challenging
Myself quite hard in um in some off weekends of racing with the supercars and I’ve always loved GT cars I’ve loved the always the the Blue Ribbon events the 12h hour you know SP 24 um and an opportunity came to to possibly buy a couple of gd4 cars um you know McLaren
Customer racing were’re really awesome to work with and and suppli a couple of GT4 rur to come here in Australia um we’ve had to work pretty hard in the in the offseason we had our cars delayed we had the the Motorsport retailer down here in Australia with zagami Automotive
Zagami Auto Sport look after us and do a car swap so uh not a lot of sleep over the Christmas New Year break but we made it here we’ve got um you know other than uh not myself but five other very talented drivers and uh We’ve made the
Race it’s a whole new learning curve and um I now I know what a stress level of Team principles and and uh Team bosses and team owners it’s um it’s a new one but I’m really am enjoying I’m enjoying the new challenge we got an amazing crew
Um crew here with the team as well I’ve C in a lot of favors from a lot of EX Supercar teams so um we’re very sport for for talent in this team Chaz tell us how are you balancing that how are you balancing the team owner team principal
Hat with your race car driver hat is it 50/50 you’re splitting your time or do you feel like you’re more team owner than race car driver this weekend yeah it’s um it’s it’s funny I think the TU like the Tuesday we got here we did Tuesday Wednesday did all the team setup
It’s the the first time we’ve ever set up a pick garage um so it was um you know more Hands-On I feel like going back to my early years when I was in um development series and stuff like that just getting hands on again so must say
I’m a lot more knacked these this weekend than what I on a normal Supercar weekend um but yeah managing it’s not too bad it’s um when I’m out of the G out of the car I’m obviously trying to see where I can help and and try and use
That experience that I’ve had in working with other teams but when the helmet goes on I’m just a typical racer I just want to go out there try and race door to door with every one even try and make it a bit harder for the gd3 car so um I
Think there’s a few Euros that are probably pretty disappointed with me out there in those first couple of STS and Chaz is this new experience that you’re getting uh from the team management side is that good news for teams that you’re going to be working with and the TM for
That is that going to change your attitude well I definitely have a whole new level of respect or I mean not that I felt like I was too um painful for for teams hopefully not I’m sure they probably got a different story but it’s
It’s um look it when you kind of run it yourself and you got um you know lesser hands and you’re trying to piece together a team there’s a lot of work that goes in the background I mean some drivers probably do need a reality check out there when they turn up and
Something’s not right or wrong because um all the guys and girls we having in this team you know the last three or four nights it’s been so amazing to stay back with them with the team and you see how many hours go in I mean the drivers
Are generally the first ones to duck off the track rest their body for the big race but physically I actually don’t know the the guys behind the camera and the girls you know they’re the real heroes of the day well Chaz we’re back here in 5 days time and you’ll be have
Your Supercar driver hat on so I’ll hold you to that to make sure that you are the last driver here doing all the work and all the rest of it with your race team how have you dealt with being the slower car in the field not the car
Doing the lapping the car being lapped how have you dealt with that it’s quite funny I mean we’re doing I think what 25s 26s in the gd4 around here in the dry but to be honest they feel like they’re 202 203 laps like a gd3 so even
Though you’re lapping a lot slower you think you you would get quite bored out there the car is still um you know very rewarding and pushing quite hard and um you know the probably the difference to the GT4 to gd3 for me is the GT4 is probably a more mechanical car so when
You do you can still slide it a little bit the car’s not going to quite bite you I think it’s you know a really good Young Junior car or or an AM car to get involved in um gd3 you’ve got us you know you know it’s like G where around
Here you just got to hold your get your other foot on top of the other foot and keep that Throttle Down even though you you actually want to lift off to the grip with the arrow so um yeah it’s definitely a different beast but but saying that there still absolute hoot to
Drive uh you’ve got a couple of really impressive young guys with you this weekend behind the wheel Chaz is the the plan to keep hold of some of them and run them through this program for the year I I would I would like to for sure
Try and run a you know a young Junior program in gd4 um and then you know obviously have some some Ms as well and try and help with that type of driver coaching and and throughout the year um yeah I I challenged myself pretty hard
To get here to the biggest race of the year for for GT cars but i’ still working on some stuff for the series um yeah don’t have anything locked their way there but I’d love to be running these two cars in the gd4 Series this year uh and last one mate next week
We’ve got to look forward to it a little bit uh the Thrifty BS 500 you’re back with W where are you at how’s testing going and and what’s your thoughts and feelings going into next weekend yeah testing was um really great obviously got a new engineer this year um that’s a
Real different mindset for me so um it’s been a long time since I’ve had a a person being married to as an engineer and Driver relationship so um it it seemed pretty good on the testday a lot of positive vibes but saying that guys I’m on that bugget I can’t actually even
Think that far ahead I think me and C Waters have a a golf um duel on Monday Tuesday we’ve decided to do so a few guys are kicking around and don’t have anything done to do maybe we could have an Ambrose or something nice work well
Done it’s great to see this team here it’s a great addition to the sport well done for your role in getting involved and best wishes for the rest of this race and indeed the year thank you very much I just want to say hi to Reese Andy
And the doggos back home I wish you girls were here with us um experienced this but thanks for all the hard work in the offseason and Al obviously my parents back home too thank you nice work Chaz moit well done method Motorsport keep an eye on that you can
Guarantee that they’ll be doing some cool things throughout the year as GT4 evolves here in Australia 16th on down have cleared off and have done their Wave by and oh no no that’ll be next eligible excuse yeah that’ll be an adventurous lap uh that’s actually the first real
Opportunity to push in the rain and you’ve got to make hey while the sun sh well the sun’s not shining anymore but get up the road a little bit because that’s your lucky dog opportunity so talk about Pioneer yeah talk about Adventure into the unknown a finders
Yeah and the first one of those David so good guys behind the wheel though David wall is the first of the cars of full lap down two times Aussie GT champ career Cup champion Lee Holdsworth won the great race a couple of years ago David Russell who with Mark cinii have
Got the most starts in the GT3 era of the baist 12 hour he’s been very good in these cars Paul Tracy he goes okay pretty good so they’ll be the ones safety car maintain 80 kph lights out at normal position Wave by in total from turn 18 this lap please
Return to pit Lane this lap which will be the Splat around so the lights will go out halfway down Conrad straight and then we go racing in the rain for the first time today when this safety car started it was right it wasn’t raining well the first car into pit Lane when
The safety car came out was the number 46 of Valentino rosi they put slicks on and then changed their mind mid pit stop and it was a smart move because they would have come straight back in to grab a set of pelli wets so that car will now
Restart fifth when you go back and reflect on your life choices that’s probably a good one you’ve made there I think to make that decision it did cost them a little bit of track position pitting as early as they did in car 46 so rafaeli martiello fiercely quick Swiss Bas driver is in
Fifth position at the moment behind Maro Engle so they’ve got themselves back into the game as well have Mercedes a& GR M racing at 130 and Danny yella behind the wheel craft bamboo racing they have another team that’s played themselves in as the race has gone on and crept up that
Leaderboard much like the car in front Phantom glob will now find themselves second with the Porsche one two Bastion boost behind the wheel just seeing one or two little bits of water running down across the different crowns and uh nuances of the road guard you’re looking for a
Different racing line there aren’t you there are we’ll see some what look to be odd lines there are some some OPP option racing lines if if you like in the rain here at mat and one of them is at The Cutting you run not all the way around
The outside or at the go-kart line that we we sort of call growing up we all used to drive around the outside of the racetrack you drive about mid track at the cutting in the same at Forest elbow depends on the car balance depends on
The type of Tire depends on how wet the racetrack is but I would expect based on what we saw there on that lap the drivers will go exploring early once we go green and that green flag is coming so I’ve dived into the 44 garage to have
A chat with the guys who are doing a really nice job leading the way right now the boys proam class this team’s been together for a little bit of time but it’s going really nicely at the moment but just changes so quickly today so how are you guys staying on top of
That well firstly they got me out of the car so I’m really really pleased with that so Serge has to do with the own but we’re just going about doing our business um we’re here to have a good time but at the same time we’re we’re
Here to compete we can’t seem to shake the the wall racing guys just yet it seems like uh we’re going to be racing down to the wild when you got a guy like Le G or Brad Shields here in the garages it puts a lot of pressure on surge in
The rain you didn’t think about plugging one of the pros in oh we got a lot of faith in Surge um he’ll do a good job anyone named Sergio pz has to be pretty good in any conditions uh best luck for the Finish from here mate because this
Team was really great in Highlands last year and it’s cool to see you guys continuing on and having some good fun thank you cheers so we’re completely resetting the race now as we’re into the second half G because everything we knew about the relative performance of the cars that we
We’re just seemingly getting our heads round over the first 5 and 1 half 6 hours um that’s all throw that out the window for a little while because we’ve got proper full wet conditions now um I think it’s either it’s EAS or it’s stopping that R it hasn’t stopped completely and then
We’ll get a drive potentially get a driving out drying out F all of which could fear the different cars y that’s correct So the lucky dog cars making their way past BMW XM safety car but you’re right John all the performance indicators that we’ve had so far are
Gone we have absolutely no idea what these cars will do in the wet conditions this weekend because this is the first time they’ve driven the cars in wet conditions this weekend so it’ll be Matt Campbell who has done a lap or two around here in the rain that will lead
Them back to the line and he goes very early this time Bastian buuse goes with him so two portion one two as we go green these guys sorry both massively experienced in the wet in these cars as well through Junior one make racing the one make championships
In Carrera cup and all the way through super Cup in Europe so sailing off into the unknown at the moment with wet conditions and wet weather pelli tires for the first time today well into the second half of the Repco Bas call control attention all teams stewards
Have imposed a pit L penalty with a two-minute stop to Car 2 pit Lane penalty with a 2-minute stop to Car 2 driver conduct so that is Ricardo Feller versus John Hollinger two has a stop go penalty two minute hold at the top of Mount Panorama that’s what brought that
Safety car out that was the contact 2minute stop and hole penalty that is a big one and that’s an Sr uh penalty Pro on arm driver Rich mentioned it earlier on it is very much frowned upon and it might seem Draconian but you have to understand it when there’s paint will
Out there check out check out what’s going on right of screen out of the Audi Sport cutting it was like peak hour in the middle of baist on a rainy wet day in the middle of winter they were just tippy toeing trying to get up the hill
And negotiate the lap cars as well and Matt Campbell just disappeared up the road here he’s going to get to the back oftion stewards have imposed a pit Lane penalty to 912 for a pit stop breach WoW race leader peny car 912 race leader with a pit lanane drive through
Penalty so that was a driver change that they did and they didn’t respect the 85 second pit plan mandatory minimum our pit Lane crew were right onto that one they saw that happen and we picked up the vision of Matt Campbell looking somewhat confused and leaving in a hurry
And it turned out that it was too much of a hurry so our race leader who have dominated this race near on 120 laps will have to serve a drive through penalty so that puts it’s the number 13 pH cobal car lead the in the lead of the race yeah yeah
Absolutely that’s the that’s another 992 car as well of course the newer version of the the Porsche and remind you that that particular team in its first race here’s the KFC car coming into the pit Lane might as well get your Kindle out and start reading a couple of chapters
This 2 minutes going to seem much longer than that as it heads towards the Penalty Box Ricardo fella here’s the driver who has been penalized and he’s going to take the pain now Chad yes he will so if you are the man EMA team there was a little bit of discrepancy on
The the Reg if you had to pit on the first lap that you get told about a penalty but we already seen was it the uh the 130 got the drive-thru and they went a couple laps before coming in my question here to G would be would you
Leave them out for the maximum amount of time to try and build as much of a gap to negate just how many spots you’ll lose in the traffic here given that he’s got the Clean Air and no Miss well traditionally yes that’s what you would do you go to the maximum allowable
Window as we’ve got one around at the Audi cutting one of the IRC cars is around Tracy PA Tracy that contact that damage on the left front guard really hard to get it done here because it is blind literally blind you’re relying on the marshals to let
You know when it’s safe to turn because you obviously cannot see around the corner here this is a very wide angle lens camera nice job Paul he oh hang on hang on oh we praised him too early but that’s an old school Indie cast been turn that one lock up the front wheels
So he as well though yeah so hopefully he can refire that and get going again race control can manage this because they will have the the tracking map of where all the cars are and they’re at the BMW elbow at the moment so they’ve got plenty of time for Paul to get this
Recovered that’s timing by iPhone talking about time the penalty here to for Ricardo fell who can just sit there and there’s nothing he can do and the point of that rich that you know there’s no there is nothing you can do they cannot touch the car SC correct
Safety car has been called so that’s trapped this car out on the racetrack so we never got to the answer for Chad naon do you stay out the risk is if you do stay out and a safety car comes you can’t come to the Lane and you can’t
Serve your penalty they’re coming to the Lane now but this you can’t serve your penalty under safety car no so I’m not sure what’s going on why would you be coming to the Lane now you wouldn’t otherwise from a competition perspective well no cuz they’ve just done everything
They needed to do unless they’re going to put some fuel in It lots of questions to be answered we’ll try and come up with some answers and figure them out but this one’s they fuel the car last when when they did the driver change they didn’t just put m in yeah well that’s a bizarre one he’s going to trunkle through pit L he’s
Going to have to do it again so this is this is drama here that’s dominated he hasn’t stopped it box he’s driven through more to come Here well that’s that’s a head scratcher but remember what we were told by I think it was Shar down in the lane that they struggled to get Matt’s radio plugged in and Chan had to go back and help him to do that do we have some kind of communications issue cuz they had
Plenty of time to see St out there well it would have had to been intermittent because he wouldn’t have otherwise known about the penalty because good the radio so very strange like Matt Campbell knows you can’t serve penalties under safety car and he knew they would have been
Under safety car cuz he had the the full course yellow limiter engaged so still curious to know what’s going on with that one the net result of all of it is that we have a new race leader and it’s Bastion boo in car 13 which is the
Phantom Global racing portion which is a brand new race team they have never raced before in this iteration run out of Porsche China Teo bernhard’s team 75 helping out behind the scenes they started well outside the top 10 they have chipped away and chipped away all day and they now find themselves leading
The Repco B 12 hour with a little over 5 hours to go in second place is craft bamboo racing with Daniel yadel behind the wheel Maro Engle in third for Mercedes AMG gper M racing uh so that’s another team that has recovered from a drive-thru penalty early on today was grouper
M and this is just how Paul Tracy had his moment at the a sport cutting Shay man they thought that was penalty served and they are currently discussing it with the officials but no that was not and race control came over and said you guys still owe us a drivethru that’s not
What we consider serving the drivethru because it was yellow yeah and it was yellow well before it’s not as if they committed you you you might have a case GTH if you if you’re in the lane and you’ve committed to the Lane as the safety car is called because that at
That point you have to drive across the grass not to come in that’s right and the safety car was out well saf card been called when MD was on the breaking Zone in the chase yeah so um may have just Tred to Swift one there m EMA But they’ll have to come back through when we go back green and give up another bunch of real estate real drama for the car that’s been dominating so Far it’s a genuine head scratcher from mine that’s all got fur brows series of unfortunate events that entirely convinced should have happened but I genuinely second guess myself there same you’re positive no you cannot do serve a penalty under safety C defeats the purpose of having a penalty doesn’t it
So logic dictates that it serves under green yeah that’s the strange one so right now that little two or three pit Lane’s Dro them to six on the road but they’ll have to serve that underg green when we go back to green flare conditions the other news is it’s not
Raining anymore by the way so that shower has passed at least at this point and you would expect the TRU now to dry so unfortunately the flick spin has not been effective in getting the 702 IRC GT back underway there was a bit more of contact
Than I’d realized with that car to be honest Jens the front clip sort of had a funny angle see the top of the front tire I I just wonder if there’s maybe a little more damage P the sertin belt off or something like did the spin turn and got
Going and then it stalled and if you remember yesterday in the practice session that car had an alternator issue so I do wonder whether maybe it won’t fire cuz there’s not enough voltage in the car here’s Porsche going to plead there case I don’t like their chances as
Paul Martin who long been the supercars operations manager in pit Lane the point of contact for the teams so there’s nothing that he hasn’t heard before teams trying to get out of penalties no no no what what they’re saying is we have to come we were told we have to come at
The at the first time uh at the first possible opportunity that’s what he said right now I’ll guarantee it Chad just through some of the regulations which I Know Rich would have access to up there so maybe he can have a little flick through and see if I’m missing anything but I
Reckon the argument that they could be making down there at the moment is that uh as far as I can see there’s nothing actually in the regulations under 3.4 penalties that says you can’t serve it under a safety car just says you got to do it in three
Laps have a flick through rich and tell me if I’m missing something I’m in there now thank you Chad page 14 if you’re wondering yeah but I I also wonder whether it’s a more global in the more Global FIA rule book that’s rather than just the sporting Rigs of this event um
The the r book is out in hand there as well y hey look if there’s a way to get out of it you you’ll do everything you can to find a way out for sure and that’s what m EMA are trying to do right now it’s in the Motorsport Australia
Standing regulations not necessar I think they’ve read the event supplementary regulations and uh the standing RS from Motorsport Australia are that it must be served under grain flag conditions it’s a it’s a global R it’s not like it’s just an Aussie rule only 7.1 they can check it if they
Lo and that’s exactly what Paul Martin will be telling them now he’s heard all of them before so interesting time at Mount pan but just for something completely different as the Repco B 12h hour continues Bastion boost the race leader well Ronald McDonald House Charities are the official charity
Partner for the Repco BS 12h hour this year and they’ve got a wonderful setup outside the track to come and check out if you’re here this weekend I’ve actually come down I found Grant Dena down here as well he’s done a lot of great work with McDonald’s over the
Years first let’s chat about the charity and the great work that they do well first of all $5 from every coffee goes straight to the charity ronal McDonald and you think about the wonderful work they do for for kids who need critical care you know in a moment of desperation
In their life when times are tough it’s a place where them and their families can go and receive the care they need but also remain as a family unit because that’s the most important thing you know when child’s going through the trauma of receiving some potentially life- saving
Care or indeed some treatment you know they they need to have their families around so it’s an environment where they can all live together and receive the care they have and out here in the Central West it’s it’s it’s so important because we also take care of all of our
Brothers and sisters that work in all the farming communities far out west so they they absolutely depend on this resource and and they’re the farming families that put food on our table breakfast lunch and dinner so we got to look after the our country our country
Brethren I like that we’re going to be looking after the commentary team with some coffees as well this weekend which is great news for us so five bucks for a coffee down here at the M Cafe proceeds are going to go to that wonderful charity as well and there’s something
For the kids both little and big over here as well guilty guilty with a special guest on the swing right now as well talk about the ba locals gr down here we got Brad Sho Mar who looks right at home tell you what mate why didn’t
You go on that one yes please I’m going to come around the back here I’m going to give gr a little push here we go nearly got taken out by Brad so there you go come down and grab a $5 coffee and that could be the smile on your face
Down here five bus camera grab by he looks like TW brilliant absolutely brilliant and all of a sudden it’s clearing up here uh I thought the rain was easing it’s still wet on the track I tell you what a couple of laps that we these pelli L wet tires clear water and
With a bit of heat it’s still overcast at the moment um you might have people scrambling back for the pit Lane it’s it’s not there right now uh and Manti EMA taking a little flyer with Matt Campbell in the pit Lane and did his drive through you’d be braving
Bal to put slicks on now but you can see already at the that there is of a I’m not going to call it dry less moist line evolving there at the Kink so it will drive very rapidly and these paries move an enormous amount of water out of the way a few moments
Ago there was a a conversation going on the gentleman with the glasses who was doing putting porous cases Thomas lowenbach uh and he is the head of Porsche Motorsport and he was fairly forcefully putting his case with realbook in hand there G so with this is
Not team manager this is head of Porsche Motorsport yeah but that doesn’t make any difference if it’s a rule well no no no so that’s how seriously POR in EM yeah well that’s I mean that’s great to see how serious Porsche taking this race and clearly they’ve been the form
Dominant car so far in this one so still plenty to play out the weather’s hanging around it wouldn’t be BST without a few curve balls Cur balls are Top Spin googly I’m not sure sliders thoughts going on at the moment it’s all happening real shame to
See that car out Paul Tracy it was great to come and spend some time in the box with you guys early this morning after the first in and they’d worked their way up to the lead of that class by not having any incidents so that that will be really disappointing for them well
The Invitational class is going to be whoever gets on the podium is whoever finishes at the moment get to the endre if you get to the end you probably going to get a trophy it’s been quite a war of attrition there so far just it’s easy to get bogged down in
Regulations but to simplify it for you there are two sets of regulations one the Motorsport Australia regulations that govern all of Motorsport in Australia so they apply for this event and then there’s the event specific ones sort of tack on above that as well but the F approved Motorsport Australia
Standing regulations that every race meeting in this country is covered by uh what I reckon there arguing about cuz they would have had the ones for the event on hand no problems but the domestic rules for Australia are slightly different elsewhere slightly different elsewhere and that’s what they would have been
Arguing that’s a inventive solution to get the TV going up on the scaff up the top of the hill I’m I’m not aware kill Z even in Sr we haven’t mentioned it this is the opening round of the international inter competition InterContinental GT challenge for Sr but
I’m not aware of any differences in the SRO regulations we mentioned the contact rule which is an SRO Stephan Mattel who’s here by the way looking Devon and Dapper as ever but that rule is in the BST 12-hour specific regulations as well as the SRO reg so yeah you’re right but
There’s nowhere in the world where you can serve a drive-through penalty under a safety car it’s it’s not a thing because it defeats the purpose of being penalized or that minimizes it at the very least so the net result is that this guy is going to have to serve a
Drive-thru penalty and lose 32 seconds plus pit in and pit out under green flag conditions once this race restarts and then he’s just going to have to do Matt Campbell things to try and make it all back up again there’s still 5 hours to go in this one and you made the point
Earlier John that it looks to be drying a little bit and there is a dry line for forming and I would think that if we were under green conditions now we would have a dry line on the RAC trck so it’s not going to take long at all so there’s
Going to be another round of pit stops there’s going to be all sorts of things that potentially go sideways there so they are opportunities to get yourself back in the game when things go sideways if you play it right you can get yourself back in the game so there not
It’s not the end of the world for the 912 it’s annoying but it’s not the end of the world and you know what they’ve taken a flyer on it if it had come off then they would have minimized the loss of time they’re not going to lose that
Much more The Field’s going to be packed up they’ll be able to get back around uh pick off some of the other cars and work their way back through I I I’ll guarantee that car will be back in in with a shout uh be before too long they’ll be calculating that just
Remember they can’t do anything else to the car when they come through so they can’t change back to slick tires or anything like that hour to go supercars season 2024 a lot has been learned a lot has changed and we’ve got a lot to look forward to it starts with the batist Superfest
Following the baist 12 hour it’s time to kick off the new season at the Thrifty batist 500 Gra for another great race Australia it is show this year a new Champion will be crowned take your pick it could be anyone’s who gets the job done today ticket information can be found at
Superc cars.com supercars Unforgettable it’s a new Supercar season it starts next week here at Mount Panorama the Thrifty BST 5002 250 km races plus two top 10 shootouts as well to set the grid for nothing like a BST top 10 shootout in a Supercar looking forward to that uh it looks like
We’re going to have a new champion this year Ford Mustang versus Chevy Camaro the Racing’s going to be great and if it continues on the way it ended last year where we had some surprise winners Gander in those closing couple of rounds it could be a really exciting way to
Start this year’s Reco Supercar Championship certainly can’t wait for that one picking up hostilities here at Mount Panorama for round of the championship it’s time to have a roll in the hay rich just as just a bit of a reset busy at the moment the let’s hear from Jack Perkins
In pit Lane yeah thanks G I thought I’d just update you on the track temperature so before the rain we had 38° and now it’s at 26 that’s still relatively warm for these conditions so we need to start thinking about the the crossover lap time when you go from wets back to to
Slicks and in Supercar land it’s around about 2 minutes 18 so you might like to expand on that go uh 2 minutes 1 for a super car is the transition time what do you reckon here lap time here probably yeah probably 16 15 16 would be the the crossover um but
Jack’s point is is valid that it’s very very warm and even you can see visually how much drier how one how wet it got during this safety car but now how much it’s drying out under that same safety car and the track will dry even more
Quickly once the cars get back up to racing speed the other good news just for all of this so there was one question mark over the penalty which was car 912 Car 2 however had that two-minute stop and hold they’re okay cuz they did that under green and then
This safety car has been perfectly timed to get them back to the back of the queue and they’re still on the lead lap of the race so they’re going to be all right the other news is is that from mattstone racing just heard from Slade paren is the team media boss down there
There and they’re working to get that car back on the road supergas racing IRC GT which is great news for them Shay I’ve just done a little bit of investigating guys because we do have a proam category and yes they can win the race overall as we’ve seen happen in the
Past but they have their own set of rules that they are trying to abide to right now I.E a bronze driver that must get 60 Minutes worth of drive time in the second half of the race well we have just had 60 Minutes uh elapse in the
Second half of the race and one of our bronze drivers is very near meeting that time Ian James has about 15 more minutes to do in the 27 Mercedes the heart of racing with SPS performance then he’s done whereas the other two cars in category namely the 88 where Prince
Ibrahim has to get back behind the wheel and the number 911 Yasser Shaheen has to get back behind the wheel of that car neither of them have fulfilled that 1H hour minimum so we are going to see the 27 with two pro drivers Alex reris and
Ross gun for the remainder of this race after about another 15 minutes has elapsed that’s a really good point Shay that you make in the boyel Pro Am class battle the bronze drivers do need to do an hour of drive time after the second or in the second half of the race so
That sets them up really nicely and remember if a pro am car stays on the lead lap put a Pro driver in at the end they become as outright a contender as anybody else so alesio pick aello behind the wheel of 911 at the moment they’re fifth outright but yasa shahin still to
Drive and the same for K 88 who sits ninth outright so potentially hard of racing him with a really good shout put their fast drivers in their properly fast drivers in at the end and they’ll be an outright Contender for this one as we confirm the pelli leaderboard all the
Way down to the bottom end of the top 20 so you can see cracking in to the top 20 for the first time today Marcus Flack behind the wheel of the method Motorsport McLaren leading the GT4 class invitation to who wins Invitational today is absolutely anyone’s guess
Because at the moment it’s still showing 702 as the leader because they had so many laps up their sleeve from everyone else and it’s an endurance race if the race stopped now they’d still have the most laps whether they be classified or not would then be a massive argument but
This until they get P by another car in terms of laps completed they stay where they are on the leaderboard and as we thought there was some damage the front because there was fluid that had come out that car and there’s a bit of dry compound being put down there BMW XM in
The pit Lane and for the first time it’s Bastian boo who has to decide when to go and he goes about halfway down the hash mark before muray Corner stays away from the inside line finding the grip from the wet weather pelli ties that’s a smart restart that means he won’t be
Bothered into turn one G think can pick his line oh and he’s picked a slightly wetter line than he wanted and he’s gone sideways and that’s going to cost him time up Mountain straight has it cost him the lead already at had no not yet but he’s defending hard from Danny jadel
For the run up Mountain straight I was about to say that boo had done his home workk because he put the car exactly where you needed to put it at the final corner you need to run it up the middle of the grid boxes and as soon as you
Leave the last Corner comes straight back to the middle of the track so he has done his wet weather research prior to coming to B he is a properly talented young man just 20 years of age but already the reigning Porsche super Cup champion one M Porsche Racing’s Pinnacle
Last year he knows how to will one of these 911s that was the moment at turn one his uh Porsche family teammate not direct teammate pic aell a little bit wide the question now is was when does Matt Campbell peel off so he’ll have a couple of LPS to serve that penalty but
He’s currently up in fifth position it’s a big wag of the tail have imposed a pit Lane penalty to car 44 for a pit stop breach and a pit stop breach for our silver class leaders so Sergio Perez behind the wheel we just heard from Marcel Z in the lane about
How trouble free their day had been all of a sudden the uh iron hand of motorport Australia race control comes down on them for a pit stop regulation breach to car nine for a pit stop brid and car nine Lee hsw will visit the lane both those breaches
A safety car two safety cars ago because we didn’t have time to get all the penalties out and that was for going through the red light at the end of pit Lane so they’ve been caught out with that one it’s just taken that long to process at all because we went straight
Back under safety car here’s Matt Campbell he’s got a run on rafhael matiello so do we reset the three laps that he’s going to the end of the safety I don’t think so I don’t think really it’s just so if he had one lap on the green before
He’s he’s then got if I’m if now I’m coming now straight away so you don’t get caught out again here we go he’s coming to the Lane so cuz that’s what caught him out last time they did that extra lap so into the lane massive commitment on entry for Manny Campbell
As you’d expect cuzz when the number two car came in to serve their penalty it was as the safety car peeled off they jammed straight into pit Lane and got it out of the way early so there was that lap one more and then this was the lap
That Matt Campbell had to pit so Transit down pit Lane at 40 km an hour it’s a 33 second Transit so he’s going to tle down the leaderboard to the bottom end of the lead lap that releases March yellow in the 46 car angle third Jella first boost continuing to late 1.7
Seconds he gains over that first lap under green FL conditions there’s Campell out of pit exit so the lead is going up the hill into the cutting Campbell exiting turn one and he has tumbled all the way down to 15th position Adam on the intercom channel in the background posed a very good
Question to me that this is potentially the first time that Raphael at marello has driven this car in the wet at all because remember he’s made the switch from AMG Mercedes to BMW probably would not have tested in the wet at all in the leadup to this one so he’ll be learning
On The Run what ABS setting to run what traction control setting to run what is the turbocharged engine’s characteristic in the wet the other guy that’s going to be fun to watch is this guy Cameron Waters they haven’t been particularly happy with the raw car speed of triple 2
In the dry but in the wet it could be a very different story so let’s keep an eye on cam they’re up to six out run at the Moment that got my attention as well Rich his Waters now looking up the inside of Ferell doesn’t get the job done at Forest elbow so that’s hampered his run down Conrad bre for Waters who now has comes under the attention of Lucas stals ranges up side by side and
Does he get by yes he does so Waters goes from the attack to the defend and loses a spot watch for haa behind experience here St is really wide just on that outside line past the Kink viory ell going along nicely in 911 that’s the red and white shell Porsche and peeling off
Into the lane rapael marello so he abandons out of this and 46 pit Lane drive through penalty crossing crossing the blend line at the exit of pit Lane man the unforced errors in this race today they are throwing curveballs he’s going to end up exactly where he was
Before this on the restart diing with Matt Campbell who just served his drive through penalty so and also we got a pit land drive through for the number 25 car as well method mport McLaren for safety car procedure as well nice debris flying around up there
At turn two as well as the GT former jumps out the way Tim bilsky will he’ll assume the lead in class when Flack takes his driveth through that’s the first little faux par for that team today as well they’ve been otherwise really nice and smoo and control alesio picarella first time at
Mount Panorama he has been super impressive this weekend getting up to speed and especially in these conditions you expect people like Maro Engel to be really good cuz he’s got so many miles here Luca stalls as well in all kinds of conditions and Luca in 2022 and these
Cars in the wet was really good but picarello doing well and they’re keeping car 911 in the mix in the knowledge that y shim will jump into that car at some point between now and the checked flag FL and then it will be up to Harry King actually Pilla hasn’t done that
Many laps in that car today so may well be him at the end we’re not far away from that point of starting to work backwards from our 12 so now starting to see the effect of what tire presses teams decided to run the wet tire at because remember when the
Teams put the wets on it was hosing down with rain so you would have the tire pumped up now it’s dried out in a rapid rate so so you don’t want as much pressure in the tire so teams having to adjust on the Hop they didn’t have a lot
Of time to adjust they literally had to throw the wets at the car for the conditions at the time but the cars you can now see starting to really move around on the blocks on the wet weather tread pattern and you’ll be starting to think about starting to have the
Discussion about when do you put the Slick tire back on Maro is under some pressure here in that group of M car in third place gella looking quite aggressive trying to work his way past an angle defending driving down the inside he’ll claim it’s trying to find
Water keeping tires cool but we all know that’s not the truth Chad the awkward thing about the tires going off that you need the car to get in the fuel window because you could just come in and change tires only not have to do the full 85
Seconds that would be one way of handling it but then similarly you’d rather just get the fuel into it as well and get the full 85c stop out of the way as the 911 goes to the outside it’s an extra complexity to think about you
Wouldn’t just come in and get rid of the tires if you could and the other thing to remember is yes we put wet weather tires on but we haven’t put wet weather settings on these cars oh close angle again covering his line picarella trying to find every which way past and that’s
Got Lucas stalls in this has got some serious energy about it at the moment angle struggling relative to the Porsche and the other AMG behind but it’s single Lane stuff at the top of the mountain that’s a really good question Chad posed so 14 laps since they last had a pit
Stop in these cars but really four green laps correct exactly right so they’ve theoretically got a lot of fuel range still to go in these cars so do you take the risk of diving in to put a slick Tire on without and you can just do the
Tires no driver change no fuel but you don’t have to do the 85 seconds mandatory Pit Stop time who rolls the dice that’s the question going to literally be a roll of the dice because you can say oh well you leave the wets on because it might rain
Again but if you torture the wet here in these drying conditions the wet’s no good to you anyway so you might as well come have got the slick so you can see the dry line it’s coming and just the way the cars are moving they’re really slimy they’re moving around on the tread
Block so there’s no real water to go looking for offline because it’s all gone because of the warm conditions here oh viella took a little step back at that moment if you’re outside the 10 if you’re the silver Class Car of David wall jack Brock’s got the talent to do
It you’re them you probably think about rolling the dice and be a bit of a Pioneer because the net result is that you you could have a massive gain out of it Holdsworth I think that’s for the penalty sorry apologies they’re taking their drive through penalty you just see
There holdworth leaving the lane stalk trying to go around the outs side at one is a great battle third fourth and fifth four track position change of position here Triple Two dicing on and that’s jamy windup getting up the inside of Cam Waters super car race all of a
Sudden couple of old stages going at it there C appreciate that as pic to the outside at Griffins sails around the outside and they’ll be wheel tohe on the run up to the king and the Porsche this time will have track position nice move here comes
St does he get in there there not there that that had disaster written all over it in capital letters repeat of the BMW just for two quicker cars doing it big move pello nice job to hang on the outside at two which gave him the inside for the Run to The
Cutting just see how much they’re off the throttle rolling the car through the corner rather than loading the tire looks to me like angle he got the higher tire pressure that car is really struggling with comparison to Luca staltz if you compare Mercedes V Mercedes boo meanwhile out in front for
Phantom Global 1.9 seconds cleared away junella trying to chase him getting a bit of a lap time comparison from pierella now is in some clean air and has been able to dispatch Maro Engle see what that car can can do the Porsches have been really good over a race run so
Far today and now Lucas stalls is looking racing sun energy One racing defending champions of this event last year and the year prior looking for a threee Lucas dos has won those races with this team he’s behind the wheel of the car we’re watching we’re on Bard with Maro
Engel looking backwards couple of Mercedes AMG Stars Jing it out one little Milestone we have missed in this one is that were’re 167 laps into this race so 1,000 K has been and gone that 161 Milestone we’re well into the 2,000 K of this race now stalls continues to find a way past
Bon leads by 1.3 seconds Daniel Yella from CR bamboo racing second alisso picarello for Manti EMA that’s the Pro Am car and class leader next these two go side by side can stall still a repeat that’s contact almost trading paint at the top of the rise on Mountain straight
Engle with a driving line return serve under the breaking Zone before Griffin’s B and holds on where’s the head of Mercedes Motorsport right now have his hands his head in his hands those two banging wheels up Mountain straight into the breaking Zone into turn two I just
Had a quick look at the lap times for the previous completed lap cuz we were starting to wonder what’s the crossover time wets to slick and our race leader Bastian boo a 165 Danny yadel a 160 so he thought it was going to be around the
16s so they’re there now so it becomes a strategy play the track’s probably ready but does it fit the strategy at hand right now one driver way belong below that crossover I’ll come back to that cuz this is pretty wild marrow angle left Lucas under sell it rich well right there some
Expectations yeah it’s the one at the H that gets me he on board with Maro luuka just got such good drive out of that corner a little bit of side draft Yeah right there at the rear quarter your car just gets sucked along but then it works for Maro when Luca
Gets the run right there that’s why Maro was fighting to stay there cuz it works for him just came out into the middle of the road just enough to so he didn’t have to pinch that corner too much it’s got keep fighting written on the dash of Maro I
Think he’s just looking at that every 20 seconds going okay okay cuz he’s B moment for both both moment they were both sideways and it hasn’t cost either of them it is costing both of them half time wise but not position so M Engle defends into the final Corner stals
Trying the crossover move but that’s not going to work this time and look what that’s doing to that gap between them and the chasing cars that is is extraordinary that they’re fighting and losing so much time it’s exacerbated by the fact they can’t get the power down
The rear tire I’m Lucas St is gone and we know that Maro engle’s probably gone more so he didn’t even turn in to Hell corner there the rear just danced its way around the corner stalks just held the steering wheel straight so the reason they’re hanging on folks is
Because they’re trying to get as far into this Pit Stop sequence as they possibly can the other driver I just wanted to talk about had a drive through penalty was 35 seconds from the lead he’s now ninth 21 seconds from the lead Matt Campbell on last time round was 3
And 1/2 seconds a laot quicker than the cars in front of him so Matt Campbell flying in the for of rice lading Porsche fortune favors the brave and there are brave people in the pit Lane right now feeling that the crossover point is this moment we have slick plli tires going on
To the number two MPC Audi that car still receiving service and actually getting a little bit of uh ice dry ice getting put in the side of the car so Ricardo fell should get extra cool on this stin the 48 M Motorsport Mercedes they are going on to shiny sticker new
Corelli tires that’s relevant stick with me now if we go further up the pit Lane directly across from me are both the Triple 8 and the 27 Mercedes both of those cars have scrub for Ellies to go on the car that should be a little bit
Less harsh going out on what is still a very damp circuit thanks sh great point if I’m a race car driver I want scrub tires not brand new shiny green tire so that is a relevant point that Shay makes the tire that you put on the car is relevant
Whether there’s two types of slicks the brand new ones are very lightly used ones and you would want the scrubbed one it just comes up to temperature that little bit nicer less slippery in these changeable conditions I’m reminded by uh Daniel priest that nobody races harder against each other as the factory AMG
Drivers doing he’s right actually he’s just reminded me of rafhael martiello when he was still with the mg versus Maro Engel at the nerber ring last year that was incredible goonan versus Maro angle here almost for the win I don’t think it’s exclusive to Mercedes AMG I’ve been in
The middle of a few Audi Factory driver fights and and I don’t think it’s exclusive to one brand let’s put it that way way they’ve all got the same toys they just want to win so we’ll keep an eye out on the cars that have just
Stopped so Ricardo fella a bit of a pine here car number two here goes Lucas stalls again looking to the outside the Triple Eight of Brock feny is in the lane so another of our Front Runners rolling the dice and come into the lane for slick tires let’s hear from
Jack yeah it’s all happening down here in the sun energy1 garage but I’m here with the May of baos Jess Jennings you’ve got an exciting announcement of about Kenny joining ba city council absolutely uh We’ve accepted and asked Kenny to be an ambassador of baist and we’re absolutely delighted to have him
It’s really cool that when Kenny comes to Australia the only place he calls home is on Conrad straight so he’s actually a resident he he is a resident and he’s a local just like all of us here Le 365 days a years there’s a lot
Of uh drivers and fans who have Bist as their spiritual home and Kenny’s gone that step extra to make it his physical home so we are delighted to have him and have him as an ambassador for B and mount Panama very good let’s watch on
And see if he can get three in a row yeah fingers crossed thanks mate I saw the B city council stickers actually on the car yeah I saw that that’s cool there it is it’s on the in car so that’s cool of Kenny to do that didn’t realize
That the city was giving him the keys to the city uh by the way credit to GT here 216 he said was the crossover time guess what times we’re doing now so they are in the 16s the the question will be what will the cars that have
Just gone out on slicks do on their first couple laps while they’re trying to generate some Tire temperature and it will be a case for a while that if you go half a car with offline you might be in some Peril this ble continue speaking of peril and Maro angle peels off and
Jamie winup follows so wink Up’s been a big oh angle wing cup they’re both in the grass I was so close to saying you got to be so careful when it’s dry on the racetrack and wet on pit Lane because you can get caught out two of
The best there you go you’re nailing the call today so much they Premed did you on that one and in comes Matt Campbell as well out of seventh position so he dragged that car from more than 35 seconds off the lead to 21 have a look
There you go have a got the spray in the breaking Zone spray still coming out of the guards Mar angle uhoh Jam wink UPS thinking I’m just going to break what Maro does follows him in and they both go through the grass won’t get it wrong
He’ll be fine he knows what he’s doing and ironically they pit basically adj into each other at the Merk end of pit Lane so angle wink up Campbell Waters in as well for Scott Taylor Motorsport so they’re going to go to slicks on that car as
Well Manti EMA going to work so the first car in to put the slick on was Ricardo fella in the number two Audi so that’s the one we need to keep an eye on like he had to make up some track position as well from that penalty but
As a outright competitor that was the first car to come get slicks so when these cars leave the lane how close will that be to that car just look at the middle sector last time around 363 for Feller across the top of the mountain
Versus Marell was a 36 and a bit as well so basically borderline now well there you go car for car half it a 392 in the other Audi so 3 seconds across the top of the mountain for a slick Tire the AMG Fleet leave pit Lane
Equipped heart ring GS in the pit Lane as well this is for the race Le Daniel yadel has got to the back of Bastion Boo and Porsche versus Mercedes not for the first time in this race at this place for the last time today I don’t think either guarantee you that for a
Fact fish Mar point two look boo that thing’s moving around yeah they they’re not using those tires anymore now do they fall for the same that we saw Maro angle no the radio call went out I think careful on pit entry that’s smart play they’re both into the lane so how
Does that play out for the cars that have just come to the Lane taken on their slick tires and left versus these two one lap later the overcut worked this morning slick Tire versus slick Tire how does it work wet Tire versus slick Tire 212 for Ricardo F last time
Around so that’s a good couple of seconds advantage on that lap alone 46 in as well picella stayed out in the 911 Porsche K sharing with Yas shikin and Harry king and a driver change going on here at Phantom Global so this rejoin we’re going to get almost
Cleansed the running order with everyone on a slick tire and get an idea of who stands where as we continue to charge the Finish so this is the driver change down at Sun Energy 1 racing the team name is 75 Express can he set up his own race team
To run the program now and that is a slick pelli P0 Tire great news that pelli back on board with this event for 2028 Global partner of GT3 racing and this is the interesting one so oh and a that’s a Superglass racing Matt Stone car they just got this car back on the
Road I just saw it in the background leaving pit Lane oh there’s angle all happening again just went to sleeks so there’s going to be another safety car here so Hollinger finds himself well it’s cam Hill I think at the wheel of that car at the end of mountain straight
This is going to work for 911 yes from a safety car they got a free pit stop well he’s still got to he’s still got to be in there for 85 second 85 seconds so you’re right the rest of the trains on the skar eletric set doing the
Same speed whereas if you did it under green everyone’s at full race speed so there it is the 911 double yellow’s being waved at the incident as the safety car being called see the XM everybody’s on the 80k limits now 911s on Conrad if not a
Little bit further around so they can PE off very quickly so let’s just have a look what’s happened here I can’t stop it no no this been issue there with that car wonder if that’s a hangover I think so CU cam Hill’s experienced enough to
Know not go out of pit Lane and not take it easy at turn two so that car hasn’t turned after his steering input so real shame for that team did a great job to get it rebuilt and back out there there is picarello so this is a
Car that into the Chase isn’t he com into the chase yet yet to stop to put slick tires on out of that whole leading group they were the only one that stayed out one extra lap how far ahead is he break pad break pad change for the Audi
Interesting so it’s not mandatory this year no he’s been they been in the lane for a long time it’s counting up over two minutes now so can Pell get in and out without losing the lead here don’t uh85 seconds no sh I pull back to you on
That one if you don’t mind please hold call up y thank you Jackson Evans is the next car through Jackson Evans is coming through medal great now yeah wow well the timing the Gap is 2 minutes at this speed at this speed is fine yes he’s in
And out no problem with with change with change this isn’t a free pit stop they they’re getting some bonus as well this is yes it’s the roll of the DI today pit one get one free so man EMA we’ve praised them for their strategy with the
912 car Y and this car remember was backwards in the gravel trapy a lap down and through this phase of the race it’s going to come out out of pit Lane in this one with an advantage outright in the lead extraordinary XM is back on the track and this car could still be
Leading when it comes back out full service for the Pro Am Porsche 991 version of the venerable 911 oh that’s s a good shot shot oh love it probably left actually pretty casually just to make sure they don’t breach 85 second there’s no need to have it right up shotgun under the throat
Because you’ve got room to spare where’s Jackson Evans on the GPS tracker somewhere on conrod at the moment miles stuck in the dead spot in conrod so he at 80k an hour that’s half a lap the you know the better the are that you are the
And the more you prepare the luier you get the better you are yeah I mean that that is absolute quality Jackson Evans not even down to the right hander what it does do is put Yasin behind the wheel he has to do 60 Minutes of the race in
The second half of the race as a bronze driver in the proam class car so remember it can race outright it can win outright and it would win both trophies and he’d go home with two boyel Watchers however however he has to deal with Jackson Evans Max a million goats zonan
Mick Grenier Ricardo Feller I could go on and on and on because the talent’s stacked up behind them that’s an important point you make rich is that if this was a full course yellow yellow he would maintain that Gap but this is a safety car yellow so they will Bunch the
Field so there’s the BMW XM safety car hard of racing car just double double checking triple checking yes you’re okay for me to go by thank you very much I’ll that was R good here is our race leader Yas Shaheen so he has to fall in behind
That was rosun being very very careful because they’re in with a shout of this Pro um category what we need to look for in the next one hour now while Yas shaheim is behind the wheel of that number 911 is what the other proam cars
Are doing now we know that the 27 of Ross gun that we just saw there almost a lap behind and that’s really important that he didn’t drop off a l lap he’s going to come back around they’ve got no more time for Ian James to do so it’s Al
Alex reros and Ross gun to the end in that car I’ll answer your question for you right now Prince Jeffrey Ibraham is aboard the number 88 AMG Mercedes so he’s getting his time he was the other driver it was yday and Prince Jeffrey Ibraham to do their hour
So they’re now aboard both those cars so there he is Prince Jeffrey Ibraham so the field will condense under the safety car once everyone closes up at the 80 km an hour speed do you remember how the restarts have been completely sedate nothing’s happened all day today I have a feeling
And and that was when the the racetrack was fully dry and there were no wet edges so yeah that’s I’m I’m forecasting a very casual restart to this one yeah aha yeah and everybody on slick tires on a TI cold slick tires on a greasy track what could Poss go wrong here gentlemen
I think we going to have to pull our belts down a bit tighter when we go back to green 4 and a half hours still to go and we’ve still got plenty to talk about so make sure you stay with us 172 laps into the red cope a 12 hour
For 2024 it’s turning into another Beauty just over 7 and 1/2 hours ago the field burst into life in perfect conditions cool crisp and bright morning on the mountain this was a huge moment ironically a car deposited into the sand trap at 200 kilm an hour currently leads
The race this car unfortunately taking no further part the shell wrt BMW in the fence hard at The Cutting well and truly out of the race our P sitting car no chance of winning today it’s been a yo-yo kind of day for the Janetta a real challenge for these guys in the GT4
Class and busy has been the by word especially at the top of Mount Panorama that cops the number two car 2minute penalty standing in pit Lane for turning the match Stone car into pit Lane ironically that car’s just bought out the next safety car and then the rain
Came to the mountain and everyone scrambled to put wet witha the tires on there was a pit Lane misc for Manti EMA they served a driveth through penalty when they weren’t allowed to they had to repeat that under green flag conditions this was a big bold pass around the
Outside alio picarello fighting his way past Maro angle in a really entertaining battle between Porsche and Mercedes AMG and then Lucas stalls decided he wanted to get into the mix they boxed on on Mountain straight they traded pain once and they traded paint again the next
Time around and through all of that the track started to dry and we’ve gone back to slick tires and that brings us up to speed with the safety car out for a car stuck in the tires up there at turn two this car leads the race with y shahin
Two time fitech GT World Challenge Australia Champion behind the wheel under the control of the BMW XM safety car there’s the Pearly leaderboard so Porsche leading Porsche and then it’s Mercedes amgs in third fourth and fifth place the first Audi is car number two there Ricardo fellerer
Behind the wheel and then you go back and find phip frager Maxim Martin David wall the Lamborghini is kned outright they have crept up on this great great job for our silver class leading car today and Matt Campbell safety car helps car 912 gets them right back in the
Mix all those times are going to close up is the bazelle watches class Leaders with Jackson Evans for Phantom Global racing the best of the pro cars but not the best position because the proam car is leading with Theo at the wheale damid wall for wall racing is in the top 10 as
We mentioned and that is the silver leader GT4 chassis moed for bethod Motorsports McLaren and M motor sports are in the W the in the lead of the Invitational class with uh Darren Curry behind the wheel of the triple one mark two from 2023 and our chat is down in the pit L
Thank you John I’m just pondering fuel at the moment and particularly for the Porsches so historically here in CRS will back this up the Porsches just seem to get great mileage around the mountain here they can go a lap or two more but they’ve been able uh to do that in the
Past but this year there’s a rule that says you’re not allowed to do more than 32 laps in a stint in normal racing conditions now guys would you call these normal racing conditions from this green flag no I reckon if I was in the Porsche
Camp I’d be seeing just how long we can make these stints and you’d have a pretty good argument on your hands to say these are not normal racing conditions and now that everyone’s back on slick I think it’ be nice time to tell you it’s just started sprinkling in pit
L not normal racing conditions will Ian James never been been to the mountain before so he doesn’t know what normal racing conditions are you got both the race start and the Darkness and then they put you back in the car to get your 60 Minutes drive time in the second half
Out of the way and then the skies opened up so Mount Panorama has given you about everything you can handle but now you’ve earned the cup of coffee what do you think about your experience here I mean it’s just been off the charts you know no matter what the result is this is
Like a dream come true for me to be here and racing um the track has lived up to it hype and uh I just excited every lap maybe not so much in the wet uh that was a little bit nerve-wracking but uh brought it back in one piece got Ross
And Alex to finish it off talk a little bit about uh coming to this track none of you have ever raced here before so when the conditions are wet and they’re asking you do you think it’s the crossover time you have to delve back into so much of your experience to try
And say yes or no yeah exactly and it’s a lot easier when I say Ross is getting in the car so it’s time for slicks that’s for sure but uh no I mean we don’t really have the experience of the track the local knowledge you can really
See the guys that know the track well in the wet they you know try to follow them a little bit but uh ah we’ve learned a lot this year job well done so far good luck the rest of the way thank you he and James what a great character
Uh brick now living in the states and rised over 30 times of 30 different events uh last year we’ve got a moment or two before we go back to green flag racing uh it’s been a bit of a tradition here at the repor BS 12 hours that we
Send our P reporters out to uh sample some of the traditions here we’re not letting Jack Perkins off with this at all and he’s up at the top of the mountain well I found myself at mcfam Park and let me tell you these cars over 200 km an hour are very impressive but
As are the fans I found myself here Danga Derby and this is Chris I want to ask you what’s Danga Derby all about danger Derby is a um as a um local charity group that’s um from the Fraser Coast so we have a um uh local charity
Group that does an annual run um pretty much like the usual um the big Charities um we do take roughly 250 people out um out on a tour for a 4-day tour once a year and um raise a lot of money for our our our community in Fraser Co it’s a
Great cause now see a lot of the guys here that you’ve got with you’ve got the the years on the shirts so how many years You’ been coming along and who are we supporting um we’re we’re actually at um supporting uh car 77 um and a few and a few other other teams
But um yeah we’re good enough to uh to come and be organized by Paul and um yeah our group get a shirt every year so it’s great I can see why sit up here this is a great spot and great great calls guys all the best up here all
Right thank you very much Jack cheers Jack at the top of the mountain and the Vues of BST it’s sprinkling again down here on pit Lane when everyone’s just got back to slick pelli tires Yash yasa Shaheen at the moment loving the fact that he’s behind the XM safety car he’s
Got to do a full one hour in this second half of the race he’d be happier that he’s eating up some of that time under safety car correct so exactly that’s a win it’s a massive win for them but he’s still got a job to do in the pram as the
Broly all back up again I was about to say what would you guys say if I told you it was raining at The Cutting now that we’ve brought all the cars in the tracks dried out we’ve brought all the cars in we put slick tires on and now it’s Runing get you I
Look at you with a blank slightly exasperated look on my face I think because it’s just the story of that day that’s just ba no that’s that’s what happens here the mountain design to it’s there is on the radar at least weather all the way around baist at the moment
Uh except for sort of northeast side which is the weather’s coming across sort of west southwest at the moment pushing up across ba however hard it rains even if it’s only a little bit it is going to make the Surface greasy again because we’ve not had proper sunshine on the surface
Of the circuit and and that UV en we’ve not had that for hours now so the actual 1980 kph please lights out return to pit Lane this lap Wave by to be undertaken from turn 18 we’ve not had a UV energy on the track so the track is going to be bu
Whatever certainly cooler than the initial shower when it came absolutely so that’s a very good point that you make so if I’m a driver out there right now I am working double time to get as much Tire temperature into the car as I can now cuz the long the the more
Temperature you can get in the tire the deeper into the rain you can go on a slick give the team more time to make a better informed decision whether to go to a wet Tire or to stay on a warm SLE so we feel like there there was a period
Half an hour ago that was critical for decision making and I feel like that’s coming again in the next 5 minutes and this is where the communication between driver and pit wall is crucial because they have to work together the pit wall can look at the data and the radar the
Driver is the only one that can tell them what it’s actually like all the way around the circuit and remember no intermediate you have a slick you have a wet no cut so see the enormous bolt of lightning in that shot as the cars were coming over I deliberately ignored talking about that
Mr gri spooky very very yes if you’re any one of these cars on the RAC track right now absolutely here’s the wave bite the BMW XM safety car now this is M for from heaven for these guys cuz they get to charge around and will get to put a bit of we’re
Seeing actually starting to see some significant rain on conrod straight so someone dive here we go to replay this is Richard’s lightning watch was way bigger than I thought that was uh electrifying oh very good very good as will this restart be yasa shikin finds himself in position
Leading this field the safety car pulls away it’s up to the South Australian to lead the field back to green with Jackson Evans and Maxi goats right behind him and somebody’s going to pit here is come to the Lane do you roll the dice yeah who’s he going to Be coming back to green flag everybody back on slick pelli rubber as the rain starts to fall again is anyone he going to hit the lane yasa Shaheen gets his foot down comes down to the final quarter searching for grip from those front perellis actually
Did a pretty good job there kept the car on the black stuff but it is looking filthy over to the West talk about pressure for Yasha Shaheen bronze driver leading outright he was in the car when it was turned around at the top of the mountain and sat in the gravel trap contemplating
Life wondering whether they were going to continue now he’s in the lead of the race fighting off Jackson Evans as they make their way up Mountain straight to make it a bit more difficult for him it’s raining and they’re on a slick Tire Jackson Evans sends it up the inside I
Think that’s smart from yasa follow someone else across the top of the mountain so you can get a gauge on the grip level but it is raining significantly for the Run to The Cutting this is as tricky as tricky gets J Gan trying to work his way through as well
On the outside is MC grineer the National Storage car still side by side with G still side by side with goonan heading up the hill still side by side with they come out the other side and goonan manages to straight past behind the Ricardo fella in the KFC
Audi really dicey conditions Yas shahin the cork in the bottle at the moment he’s thir Evans disappearing up the road in front and Maxi goat’s going with them yes a spun up the rear TI and he was coming out of Griffin B and that cost him up that incline it’s much steeper
Than it looks but also these cars are not right now they are not his fight he’s got to get his 60 Minutes in in the second half of the race and then he can stand down he’s he’s Gooding for the pro arm Victory so he’s got to keep it
Pointing in the right direction me time at the front of the field yes is doing an awesome job right now the fulltime professionals are trying to crash into each other cuz MC granny had just got into goonan on the run into the elbow there they’re all boxing on as they head
Down conrod straight so certainly wetter on the west side of the circuit over at the cut in and the run out of turn two that’s where the weather comes from and it makes it way across the racetrack here come the Mercedes they’re through yaser I think let them
Go Ricardo fell up the inside as well oh Campbell off Campbell very wide on the entry and the breaking and a couple of wheels off on the white line trying to get the G porser stop chain for the lead craft bamboo now assume the race lead for the first time today
Oh hug going to BST Max Mart oh no no no do not put it in the gravel trap he will get away with this well will he will he if the splitter digs in no he gets out wow wow oh Brock graphically showing what we’re all
Doing d wall got past M Campell there as Mar went Yas Shah staying out of the way he’s did a really good job there to keep that 911 number car in one piece yes he’s dropp it back down towards the other Pro but that’s not important right
Now now he’s done the right thing there by getting out of it on Mountain straight as well and letting all of these Pros go by Kelvin V in the 22 out he’s gone past cam Waters and Matt Campbell in front you’re right Campbell lost a spot to David Ball he had two
Wheels off the road on the breaking Zone up heill into the chase there and it really slowed him on the exit wow Martin the national Motor Racing museum is a great place to visit but I don’t think with 4 hours and 11 minutes to go in the race is
Not oh it is boring down at the top now so remember last lap it was dry this is the challenge of Baur the weather moves across the circuit so quickly Darren Curry he shortcuts he doesn’t want to have anything to do with the yeses oh and you’ve got to slow down so
Much mty Campbell he went around the outside of David wall there so David wall doing the right thing into full conservation mode look at him you can drive your rental car down the hill quicker than that so now driver surviving as the weather makes its way across the circuit teams ready and
Waiting I was going to say you you’re going to come in you’re not going to risk another one off the top you got to wait see how thick and strong the front is because it can blow in and out so quickly saw it here in the 1000 W man
That serious you can hear it they’re P wow yeah they’re pitting yeah oh man now you got to be seriously careful of Aqua planing on a slick tire and seriously becoming a passenger l g Dr look drer into the chase it’s so localized it’s ridiculous L golden who was one of the
Cars Wave by pits Holdsworth pits web pits all three of them B 1,000 winners Matt Campbell gobbling up black cars in G he’s up to sixth place already have a got P coming out of the chase now they’re all try to race to pit entry they don’t want to get stuck behind the
Lap cars coming into pit Lane who’s do that’s the that’s the Scott Taylor Motorsport car Triple Two cam Waters he’s rolling the dice look that’s going to be adventurous lap across the to of the mountain This Time by clear RAC trck for Cameron Waters he is going to lead
The Repco B 12 hour on sling tires and what at the top of the mountain is a very wet Racetrack and at the bottom is a very busy pit Lane I was going to say how long is it since an AMG has led the race and then we’ve had two different
Amgs leading in consecutive La for two different amgs as everybody is in the lane 85 second stop new tires uh actually no because they don’t have to right if they don’t fuel let’s remind ourselves fuel it’s a tire only stop so it is a race of the pit group
I can’t see a single team putting fuel in guys they’re all taking tires only cuz they’re all conscious of the 85 seconds they want to get in get out so while all that was taking place I jumped out of the comage Brocks and did the old sticky head out the window trick
The front doesn’t look that Big W really could so this could be a Blinder from cab so that’s what we’re saying if you can survive the next couple of laps and the front doesn’t develop into something serious it’s wet there at re par for cam Waters last year in this race Manti EMA
Without a timed Pit Stop had the fastest stops Matt Campbell has Dred everybody to get to second place oh the top cam Waters drops it yeah look at the rain at M Skyline that’s the rolling the dice has not worked the only thing that he’s looking about that straight ahead
Straight ahead don’t even bother with the SES he might not stop it it’s he Aqua planing down the hill this is the problem the only thing he was looking about there is that the gravel trap was so wetly got out of the other side but he he’s literally tiptoeing this is the
Leader of the race and he’s going to get caught up very very quickly indeed sh Adam in the pit leg guys what defines a stint does a tire only stop toine a stint because if it does then we have several teams who have breached the two stint maximum per driver Matt Campbell
Being one of them in the 9912 Mani Porsche uh is it is it how how long you’re in the it’s in how long you’re in the car though isn’t it rather than a stin to the r here’s camers trying his best to stay alive in the triple 2 AMG Mercedes honest slick
Tire at mcil comes out the other side and scarily enough the slowest corner on the track was probably the most dangerous for him coming down the hill let’s hear from Chad and pit Lane my understanding of the rule is it’s 150 minutes which for a driver equals two stints
That’s why they’ve designed that Ru so it would be like two stints of ding in completely green conditions but I can see where a few teams will get confused with that because they’ve designed the 150 to meet the two stints there’s nothing that says you could just stop as
Many times as you want in the 150 minutes yeah bang on Chad the the RS backed that up it it is a timed situation rather than a set number of periods behind the wheel between pit stops but it’s just the way they’re playing the race out so with Cam Waters pitting
Matthew Campbell now finds himself back in the lead of the race having served two drive through penalties one of them he wasn’t allowed to well what he was just a drive through what he just drove through the P for love nothing at all I love this car this is incredible
Two oh Yen’s pulled up under his b well was he no what happened there was he yes because they they were waiting for the 85 seconds and they didn’t need to cuz it was presumably that was Tires Only Chad was down there watching oh have a
Go the r of The Cutting it’s not nice as it I said it’s only a short front but there’s plenty of it in this front so you’re not going to survive if you’re tricky about ba making a call on the weather because it blows across so
Quickly that often you can come in jump at Shadows put a wet on it and then you’re back two laps later but this one has played out you definitely need a wet Tire this is Porsche 911 weather as well rear engine car predictable handling full tank of
Fuel and the field tank is in the front so that helps the balance ironically as the car Burns off the fuel the balance of the car in the wet will go away yeah it gets worse more and more really really aw oh here maty there spin the tire up
Fourth gear leaving mcphilamy Park and this is where it’s really tricky coming down the hill cuz obviously the water runs down the hill and that corner right there before the dippers the slipperiest corner on the circuit you can feel like you’re walking down there and the car
Will get away from you right now M cell wish is in he was in a Porsche cayen and not in his 9/11 have a listen to the flat six engine as he comes off the elbow hear what he did there he was first gear before he even got anywhere
Near Full Throttle he short shifted the second the punt used first gear to stop the car and rotate it and then straight back to second to minimize the wheel spin that was really nicely done so it’s probably the driest part of the track is here as we make our way down conrod and
Into the chase B lift up yeah in the wet definitely a left oh under steer through the chase really nice and patient there yeah it’s so easy to overdrive the car in these conditions isn’t it God where you get on the throttle a tiny bit too
Early and you’re just going to get that under steer scrub of the front tires and that is it’s going to cost you time side by side at the bmwm elbow 4 hours to Go amount of water they’re moving at the elbow there it’s like a wake in front of a boat those Mercedes amgs as they negotiate the bmwm elbow celebrated cam W’s bravery spending that extra lap on the circuit on a slick tire but it’s cost him 49 seconds to the race lead so basically
Surviving the moment at mcphilamy and then going full survival mode to get back to pit Lane has cost him a lot of time I I agreed with you at the time rich I love I love the bravery and I loved rolling the dice but it wasn’t the time conditions didn’t work in their
Favor it’s it’s heavy now on the front straight as well uh it doesn’t lie so much down here the wetest part is still up on the top of the mountain and that is also treacherous because of how many times car goes light oh my goodness me this is where the guys earn their
Money go certainly Is so as it starts to normalize we’ll start to get a bit of an indication of what the wet weather pace is like for each of the cars because yeah although we’ve had wets on the cars a little bit over the course of the day so far we
Haven’t actually really done any proper wet running so Maxi goats big under steer for the run down as you can see there the water like teaming down the hill at the exit of the depo and that’s what catches you out when it really downpours here does the same out of
Forest elbow come out of forest elbow here and just before the little Kink there’s another river that runs across the track you can hear more spray than you can Mercedes AMG V8 it’s extraordinary this is why you put your pink fluffy slippers on on the throttle because the best track action control in
The world they’ll have clicked it up G you were mentioning earlier on about having a r setting for the traction control probably two or three different re settings but the best tracing control in the world can’t deal with running water like that so there you go that’s
The Dipper and there you can see water definitely runs downhill so and when it really really pours that becomes a big big issue so they’re the little tricks at BST you need to learn takes years of experience oh no the Motorsport car’s gone around Jack Le is aboard that one that’s at
Skyline this car still on the lead lap still a contender in the boyel Pro Am class and he’ll be a to hopefully drive on if he can get that car ref fired and he does he’s just clipped the left front part of the front splitter safety car really yeah the front splitter is
Definitely bent up looks like I think there’s a bit more damage than just that as well so the Brock gets the car going again so that’s the only reason we’re under safety car it’ll be a quick one so here’s the Brock here oh big and then the tank slapper and he actually
Went around before Skyline wow that’s a reverse entry to Skyline whoow and he has wall hard much bigger hit than I thought yeah there’ll be radiator damage to that car for sure totally wow so under 4 hours to go by the time we go back to grade well in these wet weather
Conditions the national Motor Racing Museum might be the place to be at the moment just past M’s corner there’s a pedestrian bridge to it and everything it is a great display there’s everything from a champ car in there to some of the greats of Mount Panorama history on four
And two wheels as well tributes to all of the greats of this place and Australian Motorsport it’s a wonderful place to visit there’s a special chryler exhibition on at the moment with some really cool chryler products from the gag era there’s a valiant Pacer in there
Literally with your name on it so I’m not sure how you’ve conjured that up John Hof but it’s happening I’m heading there in the morning to see Brad and the team as we tick over 3 hours and 59 minutes to go we’re in the final third
Of this one and a pit stop for Scott Taylor Motorsport Thomas Randall jumping behind the wheel of car triple two taking over from his tickit racing teammate Cameron Waters and in the meantime we’ve had some excitement this is Jack Le top of Mount Panorama unpick
This one for us GT well it started right back at the exit curb of mcphilamy and it looked to me like the water had puddled against the racetrack in the curb and then he Aqua planed out of there car got away from him then tank slap it around the wrong direction and
Rear entry into Skyline and then big heavy contact with the wall you can see the front splitter sitting up on the left front of the number 48 M Motorsport AMG Mercedes so fair bit of damage to that one it was Heavy contact into the wall so also wonder whether there’s
Radiator damage to that car they’re going straight into the garage with a smart move they’ve been having a decent deer yeah knocking about just outside the top 10 they went a lap down they got that back with the lucky dog Rich was talking about the wind at the top of the
Mountain and there you go it’s become quite unpleasant for those of you that are here at the circuit it’s uh very very wet very very windy there you go hang on to Easy Ups ladies and gentlemen for those of you getting plenty of Thumbs Up from the crowd on the top of
The mountain so they’re pretty hardcore fans up there aren’t they Jack yeah I’m down in Triple A garage and to be honest it’s getting quite cool here Brock F’s got the jumper on I might steal that off him in a second hey we saw your reaction
When the rain came down and looked like you were pretty pleased to be in the garage yeah look it’s much warmer in the car but um probably a bit nicer in here at the moment but yeah I got a bit of the rain certainly not lot like what it
Is here now but it was super challenging this track in the wet it was daunting in the dry let alone the wet so um Mick’s doing a great job out there we got a fast car so let’s see what we can do for the rest of the day hey unlike the
Supercars you can change a few things like the ABS and traction control what do you do in the wet in this particular car yeah you dial it down a bit so um you know you’re probably in the traction control a little bit more and you try
Not to get in the ABS though but look there just a couple little AIDs that can help you along the way there’s a lot of painted lines and that on this track which make it super challenging and when you got a concrete wall to manage uh you
Got to be pretty careful so yeah they’re good cars uh let’s let’s see what we can do so we see will Brown’s got shorts and t-shirts on here he’s done for the day when do you get back in this car Brock uh not too sure yet uh what is that 4
Hours to go I probably got another hour or two to chill out for a bit I’m hoping this weather just disappears and we have a we have a dry race to the finish and yeah we’re super fast in the dry so I hope we we can be there at the end of
The race and do you hope that it’s dry or you just play the conditions to what it is yeah it’s going to be what it’s going to be mate if I say one thing it’ll probably be the opposite so um we’ll wait and see I think we can be
Fast in both conditions so yeah bring it on it should be good fun oh go well I just point out there’s a couple of uh familiar faces here we’ve got Marty Short who’s Brock’s engineer uh normally in supercars and Over Here Andrew Edwards who was Shane Van gur’s engineer
He’s going to be engineering will Brown this year in Supercar he’s a data guy down here this weekend so all hands on deck in Triple H Garage pretty overqualified data engine here Vis Andrew Edwards so here’s Maxim Martin up the Escape Road and then the brave decision
To turn across the gravel trap and come out the other side whe took a sigh of relief when it came out the other side and so did brocki and he might have to race that car later today as well so now he he’s going to claim he’d seen that
Earlier in the weekend now man Mar isn’t he’s going to say I saw that a little just in case that happens I thought I I might need a bit of purchase somewhere on the outside of that you claar it you drivers have always got an excuse for everything I know you
Have well gentlemen uh an exciting a period of time that we’ve just had we’re into the last third of the race we’ve had uh continuing problems for the Janetta but um that is back out no it’s not it got trailered back didn’t it so that did
That can’t have got back out so that one’s disappeared uh we lost the Mark car number 91 uh we lost the BMW number 32 Charles ver hitting the wall really hard the The Vortex uh has dropped a lot of laps but it’s still showing on my screen it’s
Running uh most recently we’ve had problems for Jaz M mustard in the McLaren artura and speaking of CH and that’s why that car is in the pits right now thank you very much for paying that one off for me our talent in the truck Talent always in the truck
Mind ourselves of that and uh let’s pay tribute to our camera operators as well who’ve had all sorts to deal with this week it’s uh we talked about how it takes an army to run the race uh there’s a fair few people involved with the TV production as well who’ve had an awful
Lot of work to do for this week particularly as we started a day earlier with the world stream and thank you for all the nice comments that we’ve had from the for those of you around the world who have been tuned in and are still with us at what 3:00 in the
Morning near enough in the UK 4:00 in the morning on Sunday morning in Europe we’ve already had plenty to talk about that’s fair that’s that’s fish up in ridges good night fish element yeah completely mhm yay take it bow ladies and gentlemen loving your work loving your
Work well this is our camera that took some time out a little bit early on when the wrt BMW made the fence there and actually took out the camera cabling the the run up to the exit of the aex sport cutting great new camera angle looking down onto that really shows the
Elevation and how tight that corner is and thanks to the riggers who got it back up again you know these things who would have thought that we would have had a BMW take out uh some of the infrastructure at that point these are the things that you can’t always plan
For much like a motor racing team you have to the key word is Pivot react and pivot good good work by everybody so the re is back you know I’ve said that and it’s nearly stopped again on the have you not learned yet John 13 years been coming here I know fantastic just
Fantastic so still behind the XM safety car with once again a Porsche at the head of the race car field it’s the SAA Mount Panorama did just see the fantastic men and women of the Australian Army walking through Harris Park adjacent to our commentary position and I feel like these are
Conditions appropriate for their support let’s jump down to the line sh as you can tell by my hair the conditions are very windy at the moment and especially blowing through the garages but it has gotten quite cold as well and Maro angle this is not what we expect from a third
Of the race to go normally this is where stuff’s heating up do you think this is going to help keep cooler heads prevail I don’t know if the heads are cool out there for for the guys that are driving at the moment it’s pretty crazy conditions but um yeah in bis we know
That you know the weather can play a role uh many years ago I think there was a finish uh or close to a finish with with with a big thunderstorm as well so yeah I mean uh it’s kind of cool because it it obviously mixes the race up a
Little bit and uh with the change in regulations that that have been made to this year and even during the race uh otherwise I think it would have been a bit boring I’ve seen a lot of Mercedes in particular every time that there’s a pit
Stop they come in they they spray out to try and help with overheating these conditions are definitely predominant to help Co cars cool is that going to help all of the Mercedes in the field yeah for sure I think that’s the it helps keep everything cool um be the same for
Every every car out there at the moment but um yeah right now I mean it’s uh it’s it’s on one side survival but the fight is on because we all know that once once it dries out it’s extremely difficult to pass on track and as as mentioned with the regulations the way
They are strategy wise you almost have you have your heads tied you have no chance to do anything really you guys are in a very strong position though and with this amount of time to go time behind the safety car are you minding that or you okay that things are staying
Calm it’s good it’s uh it’s up and down I mean uh it’s it’s a challenge we’re we’re we’re probably not the quickest out there we you know for sure it’s a it’s a challenge we’re not you know fully fully happy with the pace but um you know we’re hanging in there trying
To do a good job and uh let’s see where we are at the end good luck the rest of the way thank you so uh let’s just BAS basically Shuffle the park again and playing a few more variables but what we have got after all the trials and tribulations
For the Manti EMA number 912 the G Porsche and then the 992 type the new shaped car back at the head of the field with Matt Campbell behind the wheel make a point that what this lengthy safety car is doing is helping car 911 and 88 with Jeffrey Ibraham behind the
Wheel so they they’ve got to do that 1 hour of bronze driver time so they got into those cars with 4 hours and 25 minutes to go there’s 3 hours and 49 now to go so there’s a big chunk of time that’s been used up behind the safety
Car and look who’s in third position Ross gun in the heart of racing uh AMG by SPS and that car has got only Pro time to go to the end of the race and they will be spitting feathers that they haven’t been able to re lose guys in and put a gap on
Them before that time elaps but that’s I’m afraid that is the way the cookie gr played a smart move um in the 27 AMG Mercedes getting that time done as early as possible with Ian Jes with Ian James and um we saw the pressure that Yas Shaheen was under in that safety car
Restart about 25 minutes ago where the entire field came on by but he survived that and more safety car time here is using up that one hour that they need to get done in the second half of this race uh we’ve just had a bunch of cars go
Past the XM which should be a lovely place to be in with its all-wheel drive and we as that car is still out that means they went before being being told by race control so that is that is punitive penalty when you do the wave by uh and it’s uninitiated we’ll wait to
See what race control makes of that while Chad reports from the pit Lane yeah I thank you John furthermore it was actually um it was Shay who was straight onto the the the strategy that they were trying with Ian James and I just wanted to really sing his Praises because at
The very beginning of the day he was the only bronze ranked driver in the entire GT3 field who started the race what a huge amount of pressure so it’s almost disappointing that they’re not being rewarded for that right now with the other competitors getting a bit of a
Free kick here with the rain for them I’m saying it’s disappointing because they did all that hard work and he did a really good stint in the pitch black conditions this morning to get his first part of the driving done today and then he was completely done by about hour
Seven of the race so they played their hand perfectly but the rain did not fall their way fans of craft bamboo might know that their mascot but lucky the dragon is at the track and he is back once again last year he was their secret to getting heat in the tires by Dragon’s
Breath by keeping a little bit of extra up the sleeve well he’s been here right here all weekend and then the rain started and the Mystery was well where did lucky go don’t worry I found lucky lucky is still here and he’s dry most importantly so for all the little kids
Around the circuit wondering where the giant red dragon is we put him in the cage but he’ll fly again don’t worry say I don’t think that’s going to into your carryon for the trip back to the United States I’m sorry I’m really sorry I don’t think you can I think darl
O young the team boss will know it’s gone missing that’s an extra seat try on the Delta flight home for for sh on Monday that’s good back to I’m telling you that now that that is that is the fluffy toy of all fluffy toys isn’t it just to
Revert back to the point that we just touched on before we jumped into the about the cars that went past the safety car so there is a note that’s put on the race Timing System around the circuit basically saying what cars are eligible for the wave by so I wonder if they’ve
Seen that note and go right we can go whereas the wave by itself takes place the moment before the lights on the safety car go out and the restart commences they did it in the right place on the circuit it’s just the safety car um wasn’t coming in I also think the
Race director says that it’s clear for the wave by cars to go so you effectively wait till you’re told and then you can go so may have jumped the gun so we’ll keep an eye out for that one for any potential ramifications the only other thought I had was that the
Safety car was on the side of the road so it peels across two drivers right to let them go by so unless it was a directive from race control and the cars that went by 4719 triple 1 and 20 it’s now saying on the time not eligible for wifi oh they’re could
To get ped well cuz they’ve just gone past us now on the front straight so they their advantage by going early while the rest of the field does an extra lap on the safety car is they’ll effectively get to the back of safety car is turn 18 all cars for w by proceed
Drivers left all cars not El to maintain drivers right that’s when they’re meant to do it yeah so put these down on your bad boy bingo card uh car 479 triple one and 20 20 are all going to get a big ping so here comes one of the method Motorsport GT4 McLarens who
Did listen to the what the rules were yeah I think they’re the only taker left to uh get a lucky dog on this one so Tom mlon behind the wheel of that car getting back one of the three laps he is in areas of the red Mercedes FG GT4
Which leads the GT4 class that up night name of Mark R behind the world actually heads up for a brand new race team to instruct their driver no no do not go with those others wait and go when we tell you oh yeah cuz one person goes
And we go we absolutely go I have message race control about that I’m not expecting an answer anytime soon they’ve got to be think they’re not busy well with this restart so the lights are out on the BMW XM safety car it will peel off the pit Lane and for about the 18th
Time today it will be pick the point where car 912 gets on the throttle and it’s as early as Matt Campbell possibly can to get the power down and go back to racing so we’re back to green flag conditions after another safety car in the Repco BS 12 Hour 3 hours and 43
Minutes to go with weather that could still go either way and this fik to the flag and it’s busy behind between these two once again sh goonan trying to put a moveing f looks at the inside looks on the outside no room there MC grenia behind trying to take
Advantage and frager sliding around it it opens the door and sun energy one goes by frager got up on the curb at the exit the one it broke into wheel spin and that was the only invitation that juul gunan needed to get by on the exit
Of one gunan did like the double fake he went inside outside inside again on the front straight so I wonder if Fraga just got a little bit L potentional teams stewards and prosed a pit Lane penalty with a two-minute stop to the following cars 47 19 triple one and 20 that is a
Pit Lane penalty of a 2minute stop to those following cars 47 19 and 20 James can ignore that WhatsApp message I’ve sent him because that answers the question meanwhile these CS are just struggling to hang on and MC grer has had a series of very small moments and a
Bigger one for frager at re Park the car’s dancing around as they try and get Tire temperature up Jackson Evans watching on for Phantom Global Kelvin Vander Linda’s in this as well in 22 Matt Campbell’s pulling away out in front in the lead in the Porsche Maxi
Goats trying to go with him all of these cars still in the mix There are 16 cars still on the lead lap of this race Campbell’s been impressive on this one he skipped away 2 and 1/2 seconds up the road while the rest of the field battle it out for the Scraps leads Jackson Evans through Forest Elbo Jill gunan has set off after Maxi goats so Campbell goats Gan Fraga Grenier Jackson Evans Kelvin vandelinda Maxim Martin that’s your top eight David wall has done a mega job in that car when it all goes sideways you need a real Steady
Hand in the race car and it doesn’t get much steadier than David wall so while all the superstars are trying to beat each other to death David wall is just let them do that and G for the last man standing strategy and it’s working well
So far inside the top 10 just a reminder why he’s such a highly regarded driver still runs a very successful race team wall racing TCR Champions a couple of years ago running cars in GT Racing in Carrera cup as well but still Gets behind the wheel an absolute abolutely
Delivers as he is now following Maxi Martin have a look at the moment all of these cars were having frager both ways fast hands there from frager martan is very good in the wet very good in the [Applause] W yes thank you one you got young Tom McLean’s behind the wheel of that car this will be be a massive baptism of five for him he’s pretty fresh after a year or two in Porsche Sprint Challenge and he’s going to step up into Carrera Cup this year but wow what an
Experience this will be for a young guy and his first BST in Juro I’ve just realized by the way one of those cars that called for the two the penal was the leader in GT4 and that is going yes correct that is going to help Tom M he got one of his
Laps back on the we by he’s going to get at least one more back because standing in the pit L for two minutes effectively another lap plus the transit time so exactly right closer to 2 and a half minutes that’s going to really close up the GT4 battle uh we
Should have had 17 cars of the lead LA but uh the number 47 is another one of those cars that’s the um superar Supermarket car with uh Jon web driving that’s another car who’s going to lose another the laugh here this has come up on our timing screen that K 44 has a
Mechanical Black Flag for a non-operational rainlight so that car that’s the that’s second place in the silver class the Luke Yen velmont Motorsport Audi they’ll have to come back to the Lane and get that rain light working before they can go again meantime in Pro arm uh we have now
Got a new leader in that class as we thought we might Ros good uh using his experience to power past the two cars that were ahead of him Prince Jeffy ibraim and it was yasa Shaheen who was leading that class and Ross gun now on the outskirts of the top 10 in that
Number 27 AMG by SPS that’s the heart of racing car and side by side AMG actually straight again and this the sun energy one car comes off the worst again from the outside angle these AMG guys have seriously got to sort it out because Matt Campbell was 2 and2 seconds faster
Than them on the previous lap so while they’re arguing over bragging R who’s the fastest AMD driver the guy in the Porsche is disappearing up the road so Maxi goats and jul Gan arguing over real estate at turn one while Matt Campbell’s enjoying the view at the top of the
Mountain and they’re going to end up with a big fright train stuck up behind them so Fraga graner behind for National Storage Triple Eight and then Evans in the Phantom Global car there they are Evans just showing the nose there’s the first of the well the only remaining BMW
Maxi Martin in 46 behind the wheel still very much a factor at this point any one of the top nine I think are genuine contenders for a race win today so further to my point about how far Matt Campbell’s going up the road the AMG guys fighting over who’s going
To be second they lost 1.4 seconds in the first sector while they arguing down at turn one trying to have each other off so best they sought that out and get their head down because if it stays wet and they keep fighting like this maty Campbell’s going to lap them and then it
Won’t matter no no amount of track Position will change that they all need the lucky though yeah yeah and knowing this race it it then go green all the way to the end wouldn’t it Evans so Evans in the Porsche is looking racy as well so made the point earlier
When it was fully wet that this is Porsche 9/11 weather and it continues to be Jackson Evans who’s done a lap or two around here in a Porsche and in the wet so he knows his way working over the back of Mel grer the Triple Eight National Storage Mercedes it’s Evan
Sended he’s having a look Grenier opens the door and does doesn’t quite let him go contact Evan so close to going around thought that gr a had opened the door and let him go and I think Jackson Evans was the same and that door was slammed promptly in Jackson Evans face
Gran might have had had a little more grip actually on the outside there as he punched through between the two parts of the chase there so he’s defended defending then to the right I’ve let you throw me on your go and oh I’ve changed your minds now I
Have ah fooled you they leave a window open and the wind picks up and it’s slams the door in your house and it catches you una awar that’s what happened right there another 2 seconds on that lap 224 plays a 2242 for Maxi goats and everyone else in
The 24s and 25s behind them Maxi Martin’s got good car at the moment in the 2236 last time round so they’re the two quickest cars on the track is the car leading and then the one in seventh position Max is a red ma really is got
Such none of these guys are bad in the way let’s let’s just make that it’s a relative term yes but I’ve seen Max martan do some stuff in cars down through the years you you would not believe this like ning norer among them and he’s this is his element and he’s in it Now Repco B’s 12h hour continues 3 and 1/2 hours to go here’s how we’ve got to this point what of the last lot of highlights going to tell us at the end of this still so much more to play out hard to believe these were the conditions bright and early this morning
And that that car ended up stuck in the gravel trap and brought out the safety car massive impacts such a shame for the pole sitting BMW poll winner hasn’t gone on to win the race since 2017 now in this race it’s been a long time here we
Claimed the Allen Simonson polar W to convert big penalty went the way of the Audi for feeding the Superglass racing IRC GT into the fence on the run into the Dipper ftiness occurred on the outside of turn two Pier Alo was looking really good in the Porsche and then the two Mercedes amgs
Were punching on for a couple of laps and that has basically been the theme of the day between the AMG products in this race Martin had a huge moment he wanted to go and visit the main street of baist he went so far down and then managed to
Drive himself out of the gravel trap then the rain returned so to the lightning cam Waters was a passenger at the top everyone peeled off into pit Lane and Jack Le Brock incredible moment with the full 360 over Brock Skyline and pretty remarkable that it didn’t end up
Worse than it already was it’s been in a pitch half an hour getting that car fixed up and cycling back to the lead KY Matt Campbell he’s having a great time of it at the moment MGS side by side for second and third seem have said that before and
Goonan gets there this time finally clears the CeX craft bamboo car so the Superglass car back on the racetrack for the third third time today having twice been deposited into a concrete fence or a tie bundle full props to the mstone racing team to getting that car back out I did get a
Message from techworks as well the their IRC ggt has had a significant front repair and has also returned to the second so Paul Tracy currently scored in 24th position so there’s been some heroics going on in the many pit garages here at Mount Panorama might be a few more of those
Stories over the day let’s see what zun’s got now he’s got a little bit of clear racetrack in front can the sun energy 1 AMG match the Porsche for wet weather performance because over the last seven or eight laps nothing has got close to the young queenslander in that Grillo
912 the gap’s got out to 10.9 seconds and that’s not safety car affected or drama affected that’s fewer Pace from our race leader Matt Campbell Porche and Mercedes AMG lead the way on the mountain there is matest the FIA World Endurance Championship this year for Porche pensy
Motorsport plus the endurance race is in the in series in the United States pretty cool that he’s worked his way up through the Porsche pyramid to become a factory driver driving not just for Porsche Motorsport but Roger Pensky as well just for good measure and performed incredibly with that team at
Daytona a couple of weeks ago I think a big season ahead it wouldn’t surprise me if they end up somewhere near the front in the 24 hours in France a little bit later on this year as lauron vanor watching on so Lawrence is going to have
Some work to do at the end of this race that c completed 70 laps of the 189 so he’s had a fair chunk of drive time so far but I think what they’ proved in this car especially is that all three of their drivers very evenly matched cuz aan Ken’s been pretty
Spectacular Mega job early on deut what Lauren VOR can do around here so this next lap is a telling lap for J Gan it’s the first clear lap that he’s had after he got around the 77 craft bamboo OMG of Mercedes that now Felipe Fraga is queuing up behind along with
Mel ginier Jackson Evans continues to run in sixth the moment gonon released instantly into the 22s and was 1.6 quicker than goat’s Last Time by so it’s paying off the car 75 Matt Campbell’s doing 21 and a halfs that’s the problem he’s absolutely just knocking them out
Metronomically in the G 912 Porche the cross over time accurately predicted by joh TKA some time ago is about the 16 16 so they’re still four five six seconds away from that there’s a frager wow this car’s not happy is it it’s super loose it’s hard to enough to
Driver for the car true but it’s working because he’s got speed certainly has speed over Maxi goats who really looks to be the Cor the bottle to use one of your terms from earlier rich in this AMG train problem is you got the same engine same gearbox same diff Rao same gear
Ratio so when you put your foot on the gas they accelerate at the same speed so it’s hard to get on by so that’s why they’ve been boxing on so hard theg guys the that is the blue and gold por Jackson Evans in sixth position I think
If if Jackson had clear air he’d be faster I was just about to say that yeah totally agree see he dragged up to those guys pretty easily seriously great still drizzling of rain but it’s a testament of how good rain tires are from pelli that there is a a lighter
Colored line on the racing line and they’re starting to use a more conventional racing line again now but it hasn’t quite stopped raining all the way around the circuit okay lap time check J go on First Clear lap not in behind traffic 224 for Matt Campbell 224
J gonon so he’s matched him problem is there’s 11 and 1/2 seconds between the two cars still lots to Do great duel for the lead in the Repco BS 12 hour this is the pelli leaderboard 11.4 seconds Matt Campbell and J gunon Last Time by set identical lap time to the 100th of a second thousandth of a second correct yes which is incredible so they’re pushing on out in front this
Is just so you can see where your favorite driver or team or brand May well be in the running order and for some of them you might have to look a little bit further down CU there’s been some really challenging days and you can see by how many laps down some of these
Cars are how tough It’s been but some of them still circulating like the car in 26th Place for Superglass racing continues on the leader in the Invitational class through all that drama Grant Donaldson for MRA and triple one remember that car was pinballed up at the elbow hours and
Hours ago in this race and had quite a lot of damage so they ended up in pit Lane for some time Mark Griffith leads the way in the GT4 category silver class being led by David wall in the Lamborghini and doing a really good job still well inside the top 10 Chad noan
This one still incredibly hard to pick yeah hard to take your eyes off the screens with what’s going on on track right now they’re slipping and sliding I’ll try and keep one eye on that I’m going to try and keep one eye on the prly pit bunker to give you a little bit
Of a form guide for how this is tracking along so they’re ripping their way down Conrad straight and inside the pit bunker I want to bring up a few points down here at the moment because if I go diving into the world of strategy I’m
Just going to keep a little bit of an eye on these two jeweling down Conrad okay good I’m going to pick it up now so if we go into the live driving stins which we were talking about earlier in the day this part here that is the very
Moment I get up I was like no more this is impossible to track from this point onwards the strategy right now it’s easy if wet go on wets if dry go on dries what does matter though guys at this point of the race is let’s start
Projecting when the Finish is I can tell it’s obviously 3 hours and 26 minutes away what does that mean in laps we are on for a very slow race this year but boy is less more this year last year was a Flatout Sprint this one’s more of a
Crawl somewhere around what we saw in 2018 when the race ended early and then Audi back in 2012 which won it with 270 laps we’re on for the moment guys at about 272 laps for a final race distance which means if you go back from 272 32
Laps gets to 240 go back another one that gets you to 208 can you get to lap 208 and make that next pit stop from there you should be able to get home with just two as these two rub doors on the way up towards turn two now the
Reason why that’s important is because it’s been a bit of a group effort down here so Shay’s realized that Matt Campbell’s got 15 minutes left in this stint and Jack Perkins told me but he’s probably not going to be able to finish the race so that car is sort of half a
In out right now I’m not sure that they can get to lap 208 with Matt Campbell still in that car they might have to sort of do that weird half stint somewhere in the race that might come to them somewhere in a safety car but it’s a very unusual situation and plus
They’re not going to have their big Hired Gun in M Campbell to finish the race so it’s looking good for them at the moment but just keep that in the back of your head that 12se second lead they may have to make one extra stop
Than the rest of them if you can get to lap 28 for that next stop you should be able to do it in two and Chad that’s where that 12 13 now seconds of track position May well help them a little bit later on if they do have to roll the
Dice with an additional pit stop or a a short sort of half a stint somewhere nicely summarized while all of this was going on and there was I think a little bit more contact between it Jackson Evans had a really big look up at The Cutting trying to get through in
The Phantom Global Porsche so it’s hard to Pi what we call critical lap in a timed race because you’ve got to work to a time to get to 12 hours but when you can sort of guesstimate where the race is going to go from a duration point of view if it
Goes green all the way an idea of what it will take to get to the end of the race on one stop and then two and you work your way backwards from there which is how we’ve played the last couple of years out but it looks like while
They’re in a good position at the moment Manti are going to have to work pretty hard to get themselves in the mix so this this did for Matt Campbell 41 laps he’s been behind the wheel but remember a lot of that’s been safety car so they haven’t been able to maximize Matt’s dri
Time by using all of that roll speed he’s got because he’s been running behind the safety car at 80 km an hour but that does mean they can do more than the 32 laps because theyve been behind the safety car so it’s it’s Ma’s driver time that’s the
Problem rather than cor the Laps on the car they may have fuel in the car but it’s that are 50 minutes that we were talking about and with these rules with the 85 seconds mandatory pit stock time that’s the difference is that you’re you’re racing to driver time in the car
Rather than your pit stop window Chad yeah sorry you were asking me a question I went back to my Excel earlier you that figure that I gave you for the Porsche that’s sort of assuming that we’re going off 32 laps s now they’ve been able to
Go much longer than 32 laps legally if they’re able to do that the race that would be will be question good point I sitting here I’ve been sitting here listening to your theorize about strategy and things and that all is if everything Remains the Same correct which and if we have not
Learned anything over the last 8 and 1/ half hours it’s it’s not going to remain the same there something’s going to happen based on the what we’re seeing on screen for the last three or four laps between these guys there something will go down I can’t tell you what that will
Be and then it’ll all go sideways again again and to use one of your words from earlier John they’ll all need to Pivot how well they pivot with the time that they have left is who comes out on top BA has taught us anything over the years
Whether it be this race or the 1,000 there’s always a Twist in the tail that’s what makes this place so special is he can have all the XL spreadsheets in the world but that doesn’t take into account the human element you can’t take away anything from manai they’re in the
Best place as possible they’re leading and ultimately that 14 odd seconds that they’ve got at the moment as KY said you that gives them a little bit of wiggle room and yeah the longer it stays green then it looks like they’re able to hold on to that sh on
Matching is Matt Campell traffic dependent it’s a it’s a tenth here a couple of T there but those two guys are pretty much the same Pace with everyone else around about maybe what a second or 3/4 of a second slower down the line so they are gradually easing away from the
Back but relatively staying about the same distance between each other the drive time that Chad alluded to is the you can do no more than 150 minutes continuously in the car at any one point so that’s the little criteria that they need to look to for that to make sure
That they don’t get penalized cuz penalties are quite significant if you extend that and then he has to be out of the car for an hour minimum before he can get back in this is for position by the way it’s Kelvin vandelinda in the Audi chasing
Maximr 10 and got some other people in the mix as well namely the number two car of Marcus Winkle HW the other point is is that so at that point Matt had about 15 minutes of driver time left let’s say it’s 10 that’s four laps in a
Bit probably at the moment the rate they’re pulling away from everyone that isn’t junan or Maxi goats he could build 25 30 seconds so it it just gives them a nice little buffer that they can play around with things a bit later on in the race track Position will still play a
Role in this this and the more of it you’ve got the better it’s going to be at the end of the day at the end of the day the best strategy is to drive fast it’s very simplistic just that what was that that Chad had the car Pace that was P Carlos par
Apparently for those with long memories yes Pace that’ll do it every sh yeah certainly the 912 has plenty of pace whether it be wet or dry they’ve shown that all day they feels like other than the first and that little period where they had to serve their drivethru
They’ve LED nearly every lap so what have we done 193 laps I feel like they’ve probably L 140 of those so that car in these conditions has done a beautiful job so far but still a few strategy issues that they may have to overcome just paying off a a couple of
Stories uh Chaz mustards McLaren back out yes yes good excellent so the only car that we still have in the pit Lane is the jaet BR as you spoke it left hit line there it is yeah see you’re good John i’ turn your mic off you’re not
Going to do better than that today never mind a mic drop it’s a headset drop isn’t it just throw it all that was okay so we got them all running again just under 3 hours and 20 minutes to go Matt Campbell leads the way the margin 15.1 seconds which is about alltime high
Of the race under green play conditions so far wet weather Pace on a drawing racetrack this car is clearly the quickest at the moment on Mount Panorama and he has built a considerable margin over junan who gets within almost the final three hours of the race having won
The last three and he is second he is irrepressible here as into pit line comes the 88 88 jeor Motorsport car so this is now a key stop for this team because they’ve ticked the box for Prince Jeffrey Ibraham from driver time in the second half of the race so it
Will be either Jordan love or Jamie wink up now to the end so that car becomes an allpro car to the checkered flag and they will try and Chase down Ros gun in the 27 car yasa Shaheen has yet to vate for number 911 the shell Porche which is a 911 as
Well just thinking about that and that strategy that we were were’re talking about yet to see really goon pull the plug on that car but he’s still there or thereabouts and at this stage they’ll go pro pro all to the end of the race Matt Campbell as he gets out
Shortly will have to take an hour off so he’s going to have let’s say he gets out before it’s uh 3 hours to go he he could still do two hours to finish that car off if somebody does one stint that would be within the 15 so he could
Potentially still do that so long as he hasn’t done too much time in the race and he’s teammates have done enough and that’s the calculation I need to do on the back of a piece of paper Shay how close are we to that crossover point in
Lap time because we are getting both of the Manti EMA Porsches into the pit Lane both cars will be getting sticker wet weather tires but I have the feeling that we’re not too far away from the point where we could use the plli slick tires once again and as I see that there
Are raining on my head never fails I think sh we’re still a little ways off it it it it looked like it was drying and it’s just still drizzling in certain parts drizzle yeah they’re still doing 21 a half so that’s previously we saw the last crossover was around the
16th I think Matt Campbell got down to a 49 on a uh on a wet tire on a dry track it was around the 16s was the crossover point you can certainly see the track’s not drying like it dried earlier there’s no drying line yet there is that
Persistent drizzle here comes the 911 so Yas Shaheen this is that same pit stop that we saw for the trip for the D 88 car come in with Prince Jeffrey Ibraham climbing out so now y Shaheen has fulfilled his 60 Minutes in the second half of this race he’ll climb
Out dry enough for a little squee of tires and the pit apron onto the Jacks and that car will stay on the Jacks until the fuel horse comes back out front fill on the Porsche struggling I think he has to stop pretty short cuz it really looks like they’re
Struggling to get the fuel connected and you can see how tight one of the fuel hoses is and that’ll be the feed hose to the car the second hose that hangs down will be the vent hose so here comes our race leader Matt cble he didn’t get to lap
208 as Chad was theorizing so Campbell in gonan goes round and this this is to time rather than fuel from antia for Matt Campbell so the interesting one now is how much further does this car go for Jill gunan big big stint he not a lot of laps but in time for
Campbell he’s already out of that car he’s rocked the same helmet for most of his career and there’s a cool list of names on the back of that of people that supported him in the early days young Turkish driver a jumps behind the wheel talked a lot to Nick tandi
About young Chan and he has nothing but praise for him also really fun to be with as well and that is so important you spend a lot of time with your teammates for some of the teams of course this is a a oneof set of drivers but they’ll know each other and
Race together and we talked earlier guys about drivers who like the car set up roughly the same way if they’re like a loose car or a pushy car St at oversteer but being able to have some kind of relationship friendly relationship with you guys if you are on the tour as it
Were if you’re doing IM or if you’re doing the world inurance championship you spend as much time with those guys as you do with your family well sometimes probably more time with your teammates than you do with your family given the jet setting lifestyle that is GT Racing that takes place all around
The globe and if you are one of those Factory drivers you’re in the same pool and uh you do end up spending a lot of time together so it is important it is important to fit in it is important to get along you do need to work together
For the Improvement or the betterment of the team for the manufacturer that you represent and ultimately so you can get results and win races that’s what it all about yeah results driven gear absolutely the other thing that that forced stopping away from anti-ema is is that if the track continues to dry we
Might get closer to that window the Delta between crossing over to wet to dry so it just gives a bit more flexibility for sun energy 1 for craft bamboo who are second um for grouper M who are third so the Mercedes amgs Now 1 2 3 and four they’ve just found
Themselves back in front but there is still still light rain falling so I don’t think that’s going to play a role and the brand new wet weather pilis on goin’s car I think are definitely the choice of this point in time oh got a spinner at the coming down the mountain at the
Shikes coming out of the Dipa the run down to Forest elbow that car is pointing in the wrong direction threw me out for a moment I’m thinking that’s not right I don’t remember the wrong with this picture yes the lesson today is don’t lead the Invitational class because that is the
Invitational class leader pointing the wrong direction again Donaldson trying to do the right thing one get out of the way two figure out how he’s going to turn this car around I wouldn’t go too much further down the hill here because you’ll find yourself on the Apex yeah there goes
Another Invitational car you don’t need those running into each other do you think he’s dead stick I I’m not sure the engine’s running on that oh this is don’t like this so we’ve gone G Yellow g yellow and Donaldson doing a nice job I have to
Say of reversing it down the hill but online around the blind corner and does it nicely now as he got fire in this is this a full course yellow this is our first full course yellow I can’t say a martial supposed to see what boards they but safety got does
Have fire in the motor and he’s pushing it that would have been a good opportunity for a full course yellow yes it is yeah they G so that’s a great call by race control great call and that’s what it’s used for and so the whole field has to reduce to 80 km an
Hour within 15 seconds of it being called so we are under full course yellow at Mount Panorama it should be a brief Interruption to proceedings uh he hasn’t got away from from that unscathed has he but I don’t remember the sort of nose up look on the
Uh on that Mar this will tell us he’s had some contact oh has he had a help oh he has had help had a help from the 47 car oh man J we at the Helm of the 47 super supermarkets and there a full course green flag display green flag
That’s why fcy is so good we haven’t had to pack people up we haven’t had to do around who gets quick who gets on the throttle quick yeah and that’s what we’re seeing here and it’s who isin vand of course it is oh and there’s a couple off down here
Gren is going to go around does he keep it off the track oh big moment in the race this is a contending car fourth outright Canadian driver in his second 12-hour start on the rejoin down there the hairy part of the road to do that how about Kelvin
Felinda having to go to the dirt to get round the recovering car we’ already had Jackson Evans had made up a position and got in amongst those emgs because he was quicker on the green flag team I’m sure counting him down and then carage in front of him well vandelinda was in
Front of both of these cards he zigged and he should have zagged when Grenier came back on the racetrack so Brock feny sitting and waiting he’s going to climb aboard that car so here we can see vandelinda has got in front of Evans and Martin and up the road the two AMG
Mercedes just for something different run into each other and then mik grener comes on the grass then vandelinda goes to the grass to go around the back the other two go around the front stay on the TAC oh we’ve seen that video before vandelinda will spins it up on the grass
And there goes Evans and Martin oh man what a video game well 50/50 chance and it didn’t quite work the toss of the coin that time for vandalinda he survived it the key no shock among anyone that he was the one making the moves when we went back to full green play
Conditions after a very brief full course yell so that’s the new system that’s why it’s great because that could have been a full course safety car procedure which would have taken several laps got to re to the field you’ve got to do wave BU as a result we get a very
Brief pause in proceedings and we go back to racing flat out for minor instances like that that the drivers are allowed to recover from on their own without needing any outside help like Grant Donaldson did who has gone to pit Lane by the way in car one he still
Leading the Invitational class though the the key of that is making sure that your team is right across when it goes back great cuz you can find yourself a part of the circuit where you you’ve just passed a great a flag post or you can’t see quite see where the
Next one is you’ve got to have the team help you out there because two cars back the guy might get a jump on you as soon as it goes GRE the countdown to Green is critical to get right and vandelinda who’s used this system plenty of times
In the past r on it that’s how he got around them but ultimately there was an obstacle in his way when he was leaving the chase that time so plenty of excitement oh Evans wide plenty going on here race control attentional team stewards every a pit Lane penalty with a
1 minute stop to car 47 for a driving infringement and that was the contact with car triple one that P out a very brief safety car infringement so it’s the second time we’ve seen a penalty like that applied today a faster car turning around a slow one big wrap on
The knuckles this is a really fast intense battle between Jackson Evans and uh Kelvin vandelinda for fifth and sixth position and the BMW of Maxi Marte now up into fourth Place through all the drama down at the chase Chad guys I love the opportunity to dive in
And grab some bits of cars that we see not in the garage but certainly not underneath these cars either so Patrick from Mante EMA has been nice enough to pull out some kwp suspension to show me exactly what it’s all about he’s been with the team for a very long time one
The 12 hour here with Matt Campbell back in 2019 Patrick can you tell me a little bit about the suspension that you’re holding here yeah we’re having the KW V6 uh racing damper it’s the latest product we used since the 992 gt3r Generations since last year uh luckily we had uh a
First version of it already on the uh 2022 race of nework in 24 hours where demos are still a bit free so we could already gain experience there and yeah it’s a very very unique product and we’re very happy to to have it with us how is it performed for the team
Particularly tracks like the Ning and Spar all the famous circuits here at baist uh very good actually the nice thing about it that’s uh very easy to use having a very nice cartridge system to be able to exchange uh the um D Ving so yeah change in between multiple
Options and also um the adjustability in terms of range is very very high so it gives us a lot of flexibility to adjust the demer to the uh different uh scenarios we face on different RAC trcks which you just covered soace we eras this product from yeah more or less
Everywhere from new ring to here uh Street circuits uh very tight circuits it’s yeah the whole range and it’s covered very well perfect have a little look at the amount of bump and rebounds settings on this car it’s amazing just how much technology goes into these KW suspension coilovers and these dampers
They’re getting more and more technology placed into them I just want one of those up on my shelf at home they are absolutely brilliant Patrick thank you good luck for the rest of the race thank you very much to watch now the KW suspension stewards have imposed a pit Lan penalty
For car 130 for a driving infringement that’s the third place go phip moger well that might be news to a guy that joins us from pit Lane now and that is the driver of the 912 Porsche Matt Campbell who has had a fairly adventurous time of things Matt I’m not
Quite sure where to start with your most recent exploits let’s start with the weather what were those conditions like and how were they to manage yeah I mean certainly towards uh the second safety car period when it was wet uh very sketchy up top of the m and a lot of
Aqua planing so very hard to to keep it on track but you know luckily we had the track position uh and we had clean air you know we didn’t have any spray we didn’t didn’t have any you know slow cars or anything after the restart so uh
This really really helped us your car looked like a jet in those wet conditions and that track position you were out to build over going on really valuable for you guys yeah absolutely I mean especially after what happened you know about an hour and a half ago with the drive-throughs and everything like
That so uh really really happy with the car performance uh especially in the the wet but you know also the dry we’re very very strong so uh can’t be happier uh we’re still working for our run plan for the end of the race but uh you know it’s
Looking good and and we’re really happy with the w the car at and and most importantly and now we have track position and hopefully we don’t make any more mistakes M signed off in the booth um what did happen with that drive through miscommunication or a misunderstanding of the regulations I
Think it’s a bit of a combination of both to be honest um I was told one thing and then we checked and obviously we were in the wrong so we served the drive-through penalty the first time when we thought we could um but unfortunately we had to go through again
After the safety car came in so luckily we didn’t lose too much track position uh and then it worked in our favor in the end as well with the boys doing a fantastic pit stop going back to the wet tire so hats off to them because they
Got to stand in front what caused that D the original call was you you blew the 85 seconds what was going on there because it it looked like Chan had to come back and and replug your radio in what that what was the cause of that it
All seemed a bit unman likee to be honest yeah a little bit of a mistake I mean uh yeah Chan didn’t plug my radio in and then I was told to go as we were only doing tires U but in the end I think we actually did Fuel and with the
Regulations and everything like that we should have stayed in a full Pit Stop stop so uh bit of a mistake on the on the you know us but nevertheless we’re able to get it back and you know now about an hour and a half later after that initial mistakes we’re back in the
Lead so that’s the most important thing Maddie you mentioned earlier that you’re working through the Run plan for the rest of this race do we expect to see you back inside the 912 Porsche I’ll definitely be back at some point don’t want to give too much away to our comp
Come mate you can tell us we won’t tell anyone you Larry will be jumping in uh let’s see what the weather does as well obviously now looking as outside it’s starting to come down with rain again so uh hopefully we we’ prefer to have one driver in for the transition phase and
Not a new driver jumping into wet weather again so we’ll have to play it by Buddy hour at the moment uh Chain’s doing a great job and and let’s see how to end of the race goes from here was the timing of that pit stop a challenge
For you cuz it had to be on your driver time rather than fuel uh wasn’t too bad in the end I mean we were pretty quick in the pit stop uh and we got a job done so uh yeah it was close for sure but we didn’t lose too much uh happy birthday
For yesterday too by the way yeah keep that one on the radar didn’t you yeah thank you he’s pretty happy about you bringing that up rich by the sound he’s going to mention the Richard K fan club any second to get your back Matty thanks
Mate it’s been a great few weeks for you we’ve had some great entertainment from you U Drive well for the wrestler is go well yeah really appreciate Guys yeah and that car with that pit stop by the way has dropped down to 12th position uh just under 90 seconds away from the lead with ch Ian gin behind the wheel of that cut who is rapidly getting towards the top of my list for driver of
The race actually I think he’s done an absolutely spellbinding job that’s a big discuss big it’s a big list and there’s a lot of names on it yeah I’m not worried about that margin the 90 seconds you talk about because they they are out of sequence from a pit stop point of
View so they’ve come early for this next round of stops that we’re expecting reasonably soon for junan Maxi goats the race leader 130 yet to serve that getting to that because penalty’s been given for a while now so you’d expect that that car will have to come to the Lane somewhat
Shortly here it is so there you go Richard CL asks Philipe frager delivers L penalty for this car and I think that was for what we saw with Mikel gineer down at the chase is that how it works you ask for something and the race delivers it seems to be what I’ve
Learned over the last couple of years really love him at Cafe flat your race I reckon we can make that happen to you do you have to click your heels three times for that or something is that he just puts his hand up don’t have that much dexterity either uh Triple
Eight into pit Lane MC grer with a fairly eventful stin in the National Storage car peels off as well so this is the start of the next round of stops we’re going to see a big group of cars in very very shortly it’s still not dry enough for slick tires so they’re going
To have to put wet so that slightly mitigates the a potential uh not disaster but certainly a little bit of a disadvantage for the 912 who had to come in earlier it’s raining again um Chan given is not quite up to the speed of everybody else he’s losing
About a second and a half or two seconds a lap to the cars ahead of him but don’t forget he’s just got in that car and he he’s finding out about the pace and the grip out there so I I’m going to keep an eye on that but I I’m I’m concerned but
Not worried if I’m a portion FR what did you call the really big rain drops earlier big ploppy drops yeah that’s what’s happening right now this so Brock feny climbing aboard the National Storage AMG Mercedes little steering column adjustment there shows you the adjustability in these cars his cool
Suit in as well you’re right the steering column fully adjustable just like your road car you can adjust the pedal box as well so you can move the pedals backwards and forwards on a hydraulic or air ram depending on the manufacturer so that can all be fully
Customized we saw when M Grenier got out he took his little seed insert with him and rocki inserted his own so go to the days of having to make compromises in the cockpit make it your own every time you jump aboard at a GT3 car think six LS into that for go is
That flapping on that car have a look underneath that car I heard it when it left pit Lane and you can definitely see it you can hear if we get a rear shot of this car leading turn two is it one of the Jacks that’s not going back no it’s
A flaw or something but it’s significant at speed like the first thing that got my attention was the noise then you can see it under the car so it’s only in speed so got it up Mountain straight for sure so is that being forced down by the air pressure
One of the under triers the car that’s exactly what it is sort of front I I thought front splitter but then maybe the rear the floor or the diffuser but certainly something not as it should be on the Arrow underneath this triaa National Storage am Mercedes remember
This car took a run across the infield and it went backwards across the infield across the curb so potentially more than meets the eye damage wise for this car in the rain it’s not such a big issue as long as it doesn’t become dangerous and flap around because you don’t need the
Down for you’re not generating the corner speed Martin Short watching on from the Triple H Garage Roland Dane looming just behind got all their engineering Stars here this weekend from both their GT program that’s said success in Asia in the Asian lemon series recently in fact they just missed
Out by a handful of points on winning the GT class and getting an auto invite for the 24 hours of lar they did everything they needed to last weekend two wins the bizarre thing about that is if they had done that there wouldn’t have been a loed to in the AMG yes they
Would have found a solution in the background even thec car going past the mik at the same time there certainly oh there you go the in car as well so big damage to this one so that will certainly be hampering performance for this car as it builds speed that noise will get
Worse there it is about fourth gear it seems oh were so slippery in the breaking Zone down into the final corner pheny was nearly off to downtown ba there up the Escape road so plenty going on inside the Triple H car there’s also plenty going on in pit Lane yeah just tracking those
Fuel numbers at the moment for the leaders so the 75 of goon on the 77 of maxz and the 46 of Martin plus the 13 of Evans at the moment so the first four cars in the field all stopped on lap 177 now they should be able to get to
210 on fuel at the moment that’s 33 laps which they will be allow owed to run by the rules at the moment because these are not normal driving conditions and from there they’ll be able to get home guys with just the one more one more
Stop from there as the 46 comes in so they’re not going to get to lap 210 in the 46 car so that may leave them slightly short with a projected ending on 271 so the 75 comes in now they haven’t gone the full 32 that they could
Have gone then they did this last year remember where they they hitted to basically their own strategy rather than the full extent of their fuel calculations in that car so ju Gan brings 75 in Maxine Martin 46 for Jackson Evans this car for Phantom Global and the driver change going on
There I’ve got a question for you that’s coming in on the socials #b12 HR uh we’ got the 47 super bar entry into the pit Lane for a penalty for contact it was a stop and hold for one minute earlier we saw a similar effect been given a two-minute penalty why the
Difference I think it’s to do with the driver rating of the offending driver so Ricardo Feller in Factory driver he’s a platinum rated FIA driver so he got a two-minute penalty Jon o web was the offending driver in the 47 car he’s a silver ranking so a semi-professional
Driver if you like so my thinking without checking the S table is that he’s less professional therefore less of a penalty yeah got [Applause] you still um not encouraging contact dri any bad no doesn’t matter so car the pitted Le pit Lane there anen gven getting around the 46
And the 13 up Mountain straight so so they’re eight laps different on fuel and Pit Stop between those cars the Porsche stopped eight lap lap to go on lap 196 we’re working lap 205 at Mount Panorama but the Porsche has tires that are up to operating temperature and pressure and a driver comfortable with the conditions let’s see what it will take for rafaeli martiello to get up to speed he’s jumped AB board 46 Bastion booster did a super job earlier in the day in
The 13 car as well and Lucas stalls back behind the wheel of 75 to the number nine Audi the Hallmark Audi with de fiori at the wheel that’s for position so that car was lapsed down and through that safety car period where we had three or four safety cars back to
Back they’ve used the lucky dog admitted these cars have pitted and the 9 Audi hasn’t but there is no chance that 2 hours ago we would have been calling the number nine out of inside the top 10 so they’ve done a nice job a nice recovery job then fiori Lee Holdsworth and Mark
Ceni in that number nine Hallmark Audi we saw changman getting ahead of Leo Raphael marello in the BMW I’ve got to keep reminding myself 46 they did nothing wrong in the pits their Pit Stop was 85.3 seconds from line in to line out so WT fine fine margins there
So that that was a really good turn around for that team they have eaten into the Gap that mat Campbell had before that stop but even so that we’ve still got track position for the 912 and a chanen down the inside it was a thought he was definitely having a
Thought now he’s got the hmark car right up his reare spoiler car is on warm wets these two cars effectively on their Outlet coming to complete their out laap martiello defends the inside line basan bu now has to actually worry about what Dean Fior is getting up to behind him in that
Number nine Audi certainly much wetter on pit straight than it has been for the last 5 or seven minutes so rain continuing to fall here at BST the 27 AMG Mercedes part of racing comes to the Lane that car was in fifth spot before it came to the Lane so
Another one doing another F job flying under the radar this car in the proam class leading at the minute and remember that strategy right after the halfway point they got Ian James in to do his half an hour do 60 Minutes excuse me so Alex
Riveras and Ross G could go all the way through to the end of the race didn’t get quite the advantage that they were hoping for with all of the safety car in the middle of it but they got some good Advantage now Porsche versus BMW heading
Up to the top of the mountain in filthy conditions up on the top there and the BMW for a moment gets a little bit of breathing space as Raphael martiello has Bastian boo up and coming German driver right on his tail more pit stops he’s froger this will be for the penalty that
They have been assessed so expect this car to go straight past his bit third position car having to do a driveth through Richard CR he almost went they know he has got to come in because he’s got the the stand for a minute no it’s just a drive through
Penalty for this te have they actually served that already though I don’t think they have yeah they have yeah no they have they’ve that box so this is a schedule pit stop for this team so they had cyle back to the front of the leader board through the pit stop sequence so
This is scheduled to a lap later than 75 and spting again yeah another IRC GT this time man Invitational what a challenge it’s been I think this guy might be able to tell us a bit more about how challenge it’s been I came to Australia for the for the
Beautiful weather welcome back Paul Tracy uh who had that same challenge a little bit earlier on whilst leading the class ball you said you guys were just wanting to get the front you were out there as the rid first started to fall side by side action Porsche turn one and
Hell corner is very wide and it needed to be there and that’s not a position gained it’s going to be a position lost here Dean fiori in the red and black Audi on the left hand side of the track has got position at the moment but up
The inside it’ll be the blue Porsche of basian boost who has the shorter line to the ax of the corner neither of them want to give way here and basan boo holds on to it a little mistake as he was going for position and that’s let
The BMW get up the road a little bit rafaeli martiello with a bit of a cushion actually that’s a bit more of a cushion in the context that’s more like a three piece sweet to be honest Paul Tracy what happen well it’s just every corner out there is help corner right
Now the conditions are changing non-stop that was actually the first time that I’ve ever driven a GT car in the rain on wets on the one of the toughest tracks in the world so you know just car got away from me it slid out in the rear and
I just nosed into the wall and uh it pushed the splitter back into the front tires and I couldn’t it locked the front tires up I couldn’t go anywhere so that’s what it was we had to uh get the car back here uh get it up on the stands
Pull pull the front splitter down pull the front clip off and then put a new one on uh still going I did a full stint that time but I tell you what the conditions are just absolutely brutal because it’s it’s changing all the time it’s the rain stops it starts to get a
Little bit grippier and then it starts to rain somewhere and then it then it changes and it moves somewhere else so it’s it’s worst case scenario right now for these guys who’d be a t well I suppose you’ve only got the uh the choice of wets or dries as well that’s
The other thing no intermediates no sck yeah well I don’t think there was no no possibility you could go for an intermediate in this in these type of conditions so the track is uh it’s extremely treacherous and uh I’m amazed that there hasn’t been more yellows how
Hard these guys are running in the conditions that there hasn’t been any any more major crashes we’ve had less yellows since it’s rain than we did when it was dry know it was actually more slippery when it was just damp it was like it was greasy once it rained a
Little bit and the wet tires could work but when it’s just that wet wet uh damp Condition it’s it’s like it’s like grease on top of the pavement and it’s it’s actually more slippery like that interesting interesting I’m going to ask you this question now I shouldn’t really
Be Weir until I 4 6 minutes and 8 seconds have you enjoyed it well I mean it was it was fun that I I made it all the way through the stin but it’s it’s about as much fun in those conditions as sticking hot pokers in your eyes well you’ve had some challenging
Trou lives down through the years I remember uh an indie car race champ car race at Miami when w surfers surfers we had a giant wreck on the start that’s right where you couldn’t see 5T in front of you but I mean the conditions are good you can see but it’s just extremely
Slippery out there so I I mean are you feeling more like a rally driver than a circuit race are you feeling for grip all the time and having to react to it yeah I just I just tried to get through the whole stint without making a mistake
They you know just get through it guys are starting in our class oh here’s here’s another one in our class damage damage is starting to happen guys are making mistakes Amar behind the wheel and he’s done the front end of that little sport racing car from France with the big V8
Mid mounted engine and this is coming down the mountain as well now this is is this another portion might have been the STM car as well looks like he gave him a little push from behind and just turned him around that was like a Daytona bump
Drafting in the wrong spot on the bumper there yeah and that will not go down well at uh race control and it’s a very slippery part of the urit as Bastian Boo has just found out down through the shik hydro S’s and did well to hold on to that oh is that
Going to be wall not quite that was the car we saw sideways uh earlier on just before Paul came into it and Bastian boo not getting that car stopped down at Hell Corner either for the pass on the BMW with rapael Marell yeah once you see once you see
That the rear goes there’s no stopping it you can’t catch it it just it just slides out from underneath you underneath of you like you’re on like you’re on ice skates don’t forget you can join in the conversation with us here in the global broadcast Center us the # B12 HR
B12 HR just on two and 34 hour still to go pass for position no it’s a pass to put someone a LP down as the excuse me no that uh is the calex car so that was a pass for position it’s Matt Campbell’s car the 912 now in the hands of a chang
Go and now making back his way back up to third position third position for that carple Tracy in the booth with us and Richard CR as well at the repore ba 12 hours for 2024 well Richard Krill it is treacherous at listening to what Paul Tracy has been seen there it seems that it’s the lack of consistency really that’s causing the issues well not only that the guys are starting to push now too so you can see they’re getting more racy the positions are being fought
Harder so we’re coming down to the end of this thing with only a few couple hours to go so guys are you know they’re they’re starting to push a little bit harder and when you do it it just jumps the rear of the car jumps out on you
Very easily is there anything you can do to mitigate it other than I you’ve got no traction control in your car so we we have traction control in in the car so I mean I had it on full wet mode abs and traction it’s not as near not as nearly
As sophisticated as what as what the GT3 cars have they have a lot better systems in the car for the ABS and the traction control the cars are three times the price of the Mark car so it’s a lot more sophisticated but you can see these guys
Are hanging on for dear life out there you see the Lamborghini there running wide or there was Audi running wide in the corner there this is the this is the business end of the race now Paul let’s let’s imagine you’re at the sharp end of the race from
What you’ve seen while you’ve been out there is it a Porsche is it a BMW is it an Audi is it an AMG what what do you think who do you think’s got the advantage of anyone at the moment big slide there from the shell Porsche but I
I I think the Porsche the uh me me pors of the green one look really really consistent and fast and I I think he’s probably the guy to beat yeah we’ve got it we still trying to work out if they’ve got their driver times all sorted out and kill’s been
Scribbling away frantically um not sure we’ve got an answer on that crunch the numbers you you’re giving me that look that means that you’re not quite happy with what you found out we think they’re okay for driver time it’s they’re 20 minutes out of sync with their main
Rivals from a pit stop point of view which if you remember last year was exactly the same not an issue because they won the race it was the same situation that sun energy run themselves in last time by how did you find the the changing conditions Paul and adapting to
That as that rain came getting yellow with that big splitter laying out in the middle of the track cuz that’ll cut a tire down immediately if somebody runs over that so this could cause a full course yellow yeah that would be another perfect opportunity for a full course
Yellow that’s heading up uh the Mountain straight isn’t it yeah the changing conditions just make it yellow just come out 15 seconds to get on the limit and out the moment the moment you start to get some confidence as the as a dry line starts to appear and you see the the the
Rain tracks you follow the tracks and there’s there’s good grip it’ll just start to drizzle more and that’ll all fill in and then the next lap you come around it’s what you did the lap before next time you’re in a slide yeah so perfectly timed on pit stop for Tom
Randle in triple two oh he ran over that the Lamborghini ran right over that splitter so I think it’s a boot I think it’s a trunk Le P I think that’s velmont racing Audi I’m going to throw a dart and hope it lands um Triple Two was at
Pit entry when that full course yellow called so they’re bowled into pit Lane so this is a really well timed pit stop for them while the whole Field’s doing 880 km an hour they get this 85 second time Pit Stop essentially for free and we saw that that actually had had a big
Impact earlier on in the race at krzy because at the time the car that came in and went out didn’t lose the lead at the time that was the 911 correct and these guys have looked a lot better in the wet than they have been in the dry they were
Complaining that the triple 2 car wasn’t perhaps as effective of some of the other Mercedes products but in the wet conditions rain can be the great equalizer and a good stin from Tom Randall has got them in truck position they’ve got a quite a substantial margin over Goen who’s going to cycle back
Towards the front of the field so the 9912 that g Porsche that Paul Tracy was just mentioning as looking like a pretty racy car there it is heading down into Murray’s corner right now and the Triple Two is going to leave pit Lane having ticked off a free pit stop under a full
Course yellow in a really good position and will retain the net race lead out of that correct yeah I really feel having seen him go by me at the at the rate of speed that he did that car looks the most well balanced and the most grip of
Of all the other cars that I had a good bird’s eye view to watch how they go over the mountain got one of the VW amrock pickup trucks recovery trucks there to get that now as soon as that clears we’ll go back to graen we’ll take the opportunity uh to say thanks very
Much to Paul Tracy for coming to see us and we’ll head to Jack down in the lake yeah thanks John having seen the loose floor section on Brock FY Mercedes I thought it was a good opportunity to come into the team garages and have a look at the spares that these team
Carries for these long endurance races and they’re not just spares they’re ready to fit spares so here for the 912 Porsche of Manny Campbell they got a spare set of front guard so a left front guard and a right front guard headlights ready to go we’ve got a driver’s door
And a passenger door ready to go if we wander our way further back into the garage they got a whole rear bumper bar assembly with the tail lights ready to fit this is a front bumper bar and it gives you a great shot of the front under tray and then if you keep
Wandering out the back there’s more spares so we’ve got a full intake section here and over to my left we’ve got another front bumper bar section a bonnet and lots of spares so critical for endurance racing as they say you can’t go racing without your spares I just wanted to really Ram home
What an advantage that was for car 222 they were duud to L pit somewhere around 210 anyway so not only did they get that but that gets them to 243 on a 33 lap stint from there which will get them to 276 as well as we’ve just gone to a full
Safety car so it will mean Tom Randle leading on the restart there was a chance there guys for the G car to get in and essentially take a free pit stop so they must feel like surely they’re okay but by my numbers if we’re only doing these 33 lap stints which
Apparently is what their limit is right now that would only get them to lap 261 so that would need this race to really run short towards the end and the folks from supercars and their data is telling me that it’s likely to run dry in the
Last hour which would mean more lap at the end of this race so if anything it’s Advantage to the 222 obviously they’re leading the race but in every strategy box that have really ticked it and that was just an even bigger Advantage being able to do it for free yeah great Chad
And it’s a massive free kick but what they probably didn’t want was this to be elevated to a full BMW safety car 30 seconds track position margin has it because I’m still seeing fcy Boards out so so it is still a full course yellow still a full of course yellow uh let’s
Remind ourselves how we got underway all those hours ago 9 hours and 22 minutes and 12 seconds starting in the darkness the you one of the unique factors of the repc B is 12 hour Yash Shen dumped under ceremoniously out of the lead of the am
Class and then one of the big shuns of the day at the Audi cutting the BMW undoubtedly won of the the favorites for the race out and took no further part been a bit of impatience on the part of some of the GT drivers and these contacts with the other class cars have
Seen stop and Hall penalties being laid out the Mountain Gander has claimed one or two victims once the range came it certainly caught a few out Jack Le Brock on the top of the mountain got caught out with some aqua planing and then the amg’s Mercedes just went to war with
Each other another one where one of the faster car turns around the leader of the Invitational class that was Darren Curry at the time that brought out a full course yellow then more AMG on AMG contact down at the chase where Nel Grenier just came across the front of Kelvin vandelinda and hostilities
Return number 20 IRC car had a bit of a moment and again the vortex got caught up right in front of what is now our race leader Thomas Randall who this team have done a beautiful job from a strategy point of view they dived in under this full course yellow got one of
Their stops done and now enjoy a nearon 32nd lead and you might think hang on a second we we’ve we’ve neutralized it why H isn’t everybody packing up that’s the point of full course yellow it’s effectively a cowed 80 km an hour that’s how fast you can go there’s no
Overtaking and it free es the field it neutralizes the field the times will look a little bit odd in terms of the gaps but once we get back to green that’ll the the the idea is that we go back to where we were before we had to
Neutralize the race to get that piece of Audi Bodywork off the mountain straight so keep an eye open for your favorites and the bazelle class leader board SE Thomas Randall for Scot Taylor Motorsport leading the pro and overall Marini in the Mark NBC there we’ve just gone back green Grant Dena for wall
Racing in at the 15th position overall and leading Silva GT Ford and Christ Tulu for Prestige in there AMG and the invitation class which it seems to be a bit of a poison chalice at the moment when you’re leading it’s edric SPI in the IRC GT number 20
Sitting in 20th first 21st position I unfortunately don’t have in my record book a statistic for the long surname to lead a class in Ba’s 12-hour history right we got two of them now I think though that Invitational class wow want to be leading that thing last lap
Absolutely so this now is a big challenge for Thomas Randall because he has been handed a decent race lead in car triple 2 a full course yellow pit stop the whole field doing 80k an hour they timed it to Perfection potentially more Good Fortune than good management but you got to take
When he can get that here and he was able to peel into pit Lane complet an 85 second pit stop and return to the race lead and the margin at the moment showing 11 seconds will let them get around to the start finish line for timing to fully synchronize once
Everyone’s back up to racing speed but so it’s Triple Two leading 912 Ayan Kangen behind the wheel of that Porsche and Maxi got thir CRA bambo seemed to have spent a good chunk of the last three or four hours of this race just hovering around the top
Three just creeping up on it and that Audi of Kelvin vandelinda I’m not ruling those guys out they are looking in a really decent position and another car that’s just been floating around the top five for the last couple of hours Jack yeah really interesting I’ve just been
Down into the triple 2 garage to catch up with the engineers running that car and couple of old supercars guys in merad Rosa and Brendan Hogan and they’re claiming that they’re not actually sort of as lucky as we may feel they’ve been leaving hot wet tires on every stop
Because they’ve been noticing it takes four or five laps to get the pace up and at the start of each stint they’ve been gaining multiple seconds we’re talking 10 20 seconds on the field so they’re in a comfortable position they don’t think it’s a fluke they think they’re going
Really well certainly not a fluke you don’t you don’t float to the top of this field in a fluke with 2 and 1 half hours left to go in a 12-hour race and there are some very big brains in that in that garage and some very fast race car
Drivers driving this car and they’ve driven it beautifully they rolled the dice earlier with Cam Waters when he was driving when the big downpour came they hoped that it wasn’t going to be that downpour and cam we report at the time that that cost them 49 seconds and they
Went back to 10th or 12th and they’ve played themselves back in nicely here but you don’t get that for free yes you leave wet Ties on and you keep them nice and hot you can do that for two or three stins but eventually you will wear them out and they will lose
Performance a chenven is coming back now at Thomas Rand and the problem with that is if you look at how much St is being thrown up now for example down Conrad and also actually just to my left at down the start finish stke that’s a that is
Standing water again and we seeing far more sprad the rooster tailes are going higher and it’s a bigger cloud of spray behind all of the cars right across the top of the mountain some opportunities for fantastic for particularly with the car silhouetted on the skyline drop with that big cloud as
G CH is pushing on here he’s he’s got his confidence levels up he was remember we said he wasn’t gaining on those cars when he first went out there krsy but whatever he’s found in that car or whether he was bringing the wet tires in maybe carefully it’s ring really heavily on
Conrad and now he’s found he’s found some performance well in the I’m just check notes 108 L of fuel they’re allowed to put in that car they burnt half of it so the cars the weight’s coming off the car as well so performance increasing they need to go they’re still in a slightly
Uncomfortable position because they are out of sequence they the first of that leading group of cars to stop as we try and work out how many pit stops there are between well they stopped on L 196 and between wherever the end of the race
Is so their next St if they go all the way on should be somewhere around like 228 to 230 the next group of cars which includes 75 sun energy 1 46 the BMW will be about 236 237 STM can go all the way Beyond 240
Laps now in this race which takes them a long way towards the final 90 minutes and that starts opening Windows for getting to the end on one Pit Stop potentially yep the triple two car whilst it’s got track position and at the lead of the field it is going to
Suffer some pain in this because they’re full right now full of fuel and the team have admitted to us they’re on a wet tire that is not the newest wet Tire on the racet track and the last lap was a pretty graphic example of that Thomas Randle did a
249 a chinen a 229 Maxi goats a 239 Kelvin vindo 232 so of the top five the leader was the slowest I’m just getting my accordion out again here starting to close again it’s that Slinky that Craig had earlier on it’s all just tightening back up again that spring there was that
A little bit of contact as well let’s not forget between the stmg and the vortex to put the vortex in the wall not heard that uh of anything resulting from that yet I would say that uh Motorsport Australia race control have far more angles than we have on that they will
Have looked at it or they may still be looking at it they take all of the incidents in chronological order and in fact I’m now being told it was reviewed there was no contact they had a view that there was uh nothing on the Snicker and there was clear deight
Between the back of the vortex and the front of the STM so was looked at and reviewed so those of you watching those highlights those rep go highlights a little while if you’re seeing that it was reviewed and there was no contact so no further action required it’s this car
That people have to La especially if we get more restarts like we’ve seen where those slower cars have been so challenging to get by and it compresses everyone when they get them at the top of the mountain silver Class alling B’s fastest game show host correct Grant
Dena at the wheel of this car and hasn’t this car done a mega job through the day earlier felt like was 45 minutes ago or so David wall was beside the top 10 battling it out with rafhael martiello and Marcus wlew and this car continues to lead lead the silver class it seems
The car that is so PR but they’ve kind of flown under the radar and just gone quietly about their business and just made sure that they’ve stayed out of trouble and then turn their lap so you know that’s not the worst strategy is it David wall stins in that rain that ago a
Really really huge in the context of the race Grant Dana watching on sees himself on the big screen that’s up at the chase there but he’s driven very nicely this weekend this is a guy that started out a race car driver first and then decided
That he needed to find a way to pay for race car driving so went to become a TV presenter found a job doing TV exactly right that bit turned out all right for him absolutely it has of course Call’s baist home now Tony delberto has been in
This car and we really need to applaud people like Adrian Deets who has invested in a brand new Lamborghini Huracan Evo 2 they’re going to run a couple of rounds of GT World Challenge Australia this year Lamborghini dead serious about supporting Adrian as well they sent out their Chief GT3 engineer
And data engineer out from Italy to support that Squad this weekend to help get them up to speed couple of test days um this is the first major test for that brand new car first one in the southern hemisphere as well so beaten all of GT
Asia as well so really cool well done Adrien for that investment and bringing something unbelievably cool to GT Racing in Australia pretty handy data Gathering exercise for Lamborghini should they need that in the might Rock up the factory team at some point down the road potentially well just you never know
Time to stroke my chin thoughtfully hey how about how many people from other manufacturers have been wondering around some under the radar some not so much this weekend I had a blast around the the mountain in a Mustang Dark Horse and plenty of people with a blue oval here
All making noises about next year as well well we think it’s good now it’s not going to get any worse next year and I’m hearing as well from the event organizers there’s big news to come relatively shortly once we get this uh Superfest finished about the future of
This event really looking forward to hear what it is uh I did say you’ve made yourself a problem you know guys because how are you going to top this next year and there was annoying look at me and I thought okay I’m staying away from that
I’ll just I’ll go about my business Shan Rus the event director and PA Martin supercars head of Motorsport operations went to the total 24 hours of spa in June last year and the vibe in the padic there is that everyone wants to be here might still take a year or two to get
Them all back but they’re all Keen to be at Mount Panorama so as I said earlier we almost had garage 59 and there McLaren 720 gt3s which are awesome thing so we hope to get them back Hub Auto unfortunately with the shipping dramas cost them a a start this
Year but yeah the world is interested and you had your ride in your Mustang I had one in a Corvette so that’s GT3 next year yes exactly it’s pretty cool B TI versus uh B Tha versus blue oral oh my goodness added to the European Exotica that is already here American Muscle
Versus European style we’ve heard that somewhere else before we are in a truly golden age of endurance and sports car racing right from the world championship uh through to GT3 class racing well the fact as well that you can now run most of these cars in the 24
Hours of lam more is incredible that is such a carrot at the end of the stick and Triple Eight and jeor motor racing went and did the Asian Leon series and almost got themselves an entry to the 24hour this is a hairy little moment the Hallmark car just jumps out the way Mark
Seen behind the wheel Mark’s doing a great job 13th outright Melbourne businessman races career cup full-time Hallmark Property Group his business lisano and other partners they’ve been passionate motor support Motor Sport supporters for a long time and Mark and David Russell equal on 12 the most
Number of starts in the GT3 era of this race yeah Marken big supporter of this race and much like Adrien Deets funds that car for the rest of the drivers so plenty going on here the Gap first to second is starting to shrink can Randall hold On part of racing front and center being chased down by the race leader looking to put them a lap down that team touched on earlier raising money for prostate cancer research Australia and looming in the background will be that bright green and yellow gillo Porsche of an Kangen
He’s now 3 seconds behind Thomas Randall significantly heavier rainfall in the bottom part of the circuit here whil why that is critical is because the tire the wet tire that’s on the lead car they have admitted to us that it is a huge Tire they’ve been double and triple stinting that tire so
The more water that sits on the surface the more worn out your tire is the less that it cuts through the water so Randall his last lap was a 271 and and Goen a 243 so 3 seconds now the Gap first to second is under 3 seconds it’s
Down to 1.9 so that 912 gllo Porsche will be on the rear bumper of the triple 2 AMG Mercedes in a heartbeat you can see as we make our way to the top of the mountain it is much murkier up here oh our outside that Salman that have dropped down to re
Park two commentators one I’ve got my eyes closed and the other two got their hands in their head oh my goodness this could be our rated this is incredible stuff right on the Ragged Edge going past traffic trying to find some Gap trying to see through the spray and there’s there’s
Only one line at certain part of the circuit and where they are now coming down through the repal DI is one of them Bastion Bo would love to put a move on Lucas stalls he’s been in GT Racing for some time Bastion looking to make his Mark in Top Flight GT3
Racing to try and come back and get on the throttle a little bit earlier as the KFC Audi number two in the pit leg so Marcus mhawk was behind the wheel when they peeled in from 10th position that check make everything good and this is massive Bastion look one way
And then the other and they’re going to go side by side through the Kink and he gets it done big big big big move and the Porsche goes forward and just gets it stopped and just keeps it on the island so it took some hard in the mouth
Moments to do it did he get a bigger did he get a bigger toour than he was expecting there well he committed either way and we go back to the battle for the lead actually there’s two battles for the lead going on here because the outright leaders are right behind the
Two leaders in the boyel Pro Am class so Harry King in 911 and Alex reras in the 27 the heart of racing car they’re one and two in Pro am so they’re not going to be in a hurry to hop out of the way for the outright race leaders cuz
They’ve got their own battle to bat on with oh the number two Audi is in the garage big drums here Marcus Winkle Hawks out of the carot of head shaking going on there find out what’s happening with that one BR Shack’s dream of an outright B wind May well be slipping Away the battle for the lead is well and truly alive at Mount Panorama with just over 2 hours and 18 minutes to go in what’s turning into a b 12-hour Sprint race Thomas Randall a bright young rising star of our rep Coast Supercar Championship scene is holding on from
Aan Canin a bright young rising star of global GT Racing this was particularly huge casual 265 odd clicks through the Kink and Bastion boo manages to get his car pulled up and stopped and passes Lucas dos so this is busy stuff couple of Merks and a couple of Porsches all
Battling for their class lead and indeed the outright lead of the race unfortunately the issue with the number two Audi began this morning they discovered that two bolts within the rer toink were not secured they tried to tighten it during a pit stop and then sent as it was at the time brought
Shumacher back out on the racetrack the problem has gotten worse and worse throughout the day and it resulted Marcus vlock driving with the steering wheel at a very odd angle to try and hold the car straight the problem has just manifested itself to the point
Where now the crew has said the car is not safe they brought it into the garage they are going to try and fix it but at this point any chance of any decent day is gone for this car all hopes rely on the sister car the number 22 Yeah we saw
Them with one wheale off earlier on in a bit stop and they were under there and and I actually that’s just jogged my memory because someone came in on the socials #b1 12hr and said they could see that the Audi was a little bit uh wonky on
The steering a little bit cockeyed and something else happened and I forgot to mention it and that that is all falling into place now good eyes once again by our Collective knowledge out there across the globe fairly low risk maneuver for Goen getting past teammate Harry King to put them a lap
Down but more to the point to put a car between himself and Thomas Randle who he passed at the chase on the entry to GT4 McLaren just doing the right thing and jumping very very wide the Audi Sport cutting to let the leaders go through so river is the next person that go
Needs to pass and this is how it played out R up Mountain straight one old spec Porsche and the newer one driving by and old the car still has been hugely effective today and very much in contention for the boyel Pro Am class they’re not too worried about an
Outright result there unless that opportunity was given to it but there’s a class victory in endurance racing and still me to stand on the top step of the podium uh this could be big because this is the leader behind the pro leader in the heart of racing SPS EMG and then
Right behind there Harry King so Alex riverz will not want to be holding the leader up too much and chance his arm but then again he does not want to lose too much ground to the car behind himed into Alex met him for the first
Time early in race we a h Cafe down in kle Street in baist and uh he was telling me the story of how he was out in New Zealand during Co and actually got stuck there couldn’t get home corre lovely part of the world and decided just to set up part of racing
New Zealand office basically and ended up racing in the North and South Island heur the Championships over there but he did say that he’d sit there knowing that he was only 2 or 3 hours away from Mount Panorama and frustratingly couldn’t quite get here while we were all having
Fun at this place so he was thrilled to be a to get that opportunity in come and race he were talking about sbm all earlier on with the prostate cancer um you know our teams in this part of the sport great social responsibility heart of racing formed by the chat uh up in
Seattle called Gabe mule and they race and raise awareness for the specialist cardiac children’s cardiac part of Seattle children’s hospital and to date well over $12 million us do uh raised for that charity and they are absolutely 100% committed to that and to goal racing they’ve had a heck of a few years
Winning championships uh all over the place and of course heavily involved in the development of the Aston man hyper car the valky if new um has one has a road carut and and that car Adam Carter from Aston Martin uh performance was telling me on on Wednesday that the the
First mule has been running I was actually no it was Ian Ian wasn’t it Ian James was telling us that track to Town the the car has run in a mule for format on an Aston Martin Valkyrie Pro which is their track car so that’s another big prototype coming to the world
Championship at next year I said before we’re in a golden era of of sports and endurance racing uh more manufacturers realizing what they can get out of their road cars and have these fantastic races all around the world brilliant time to be in this part of the sports Ferrari
Doing sports car racing more successfully than Formula One at the moment but if if they stop doing their strategy by a magic a do they Farm their strategy out in sports car team yes of course turns out they’re very good Ferrari’s Lads are pretty good no relation I should it they they’re no
Better Sports gu we’ll give you a contender check when we get into the final two hours we generally like to run through who’s where and who’s got a realistic shot at this but look up and down that top 10 and there’s a whole heap of cars that
Can still win this car race that’s the point we want to make so nine cars still on the lead lap of the race and with the hard of racing car just being laed by the leader Goen and I think they’re all in pretty good shape so porir leading Mercedes AMG
Second and third at the moment vandelinder in the Audi next and then Bastion boost in that omnipresent Phantom Global Porsche and Luca stalls in 75 so sun energy 1 uh within sight of the final 2 hours of the race and they’re only 13 seconds away from the
Race lead so for the third year in succession G that team have Eng engineered themselves to be in at least a position to challenge for another BST Victory which is a huge accomplishment and then the BMW will be an interesting one for mine hasn’t set the world on fire in the wet conditions
Rafael martiello running 7th 27 seconds behind the leader and then with a couple of driveth through penalties if it goes green 90 seconds from the race lead David Reynolds in M racing that’s a big margin they might need a little bit of help to get themselves closer to the
Front and since aan Gman caught and passed Tom Randall he’s now pulled out 7 seconds and that there is that that you were talking about God that’s to that’s not Tom going oh I think Al’s off a little bit that’s him on warn tires against a chang Gman on tires that have done
Probably a maximum of half the work of the pelli w it’s on the Triple Two yeah and look it’s still a Net game the strategy for the Triple Two remember when cam Waters was in the gravel trap at meil and come in and got wet that
Turned into a 50-second deficit so to be only 9 seconds off the lead it’s still a massive Net game for this team and I mentioned earlier they will take some pain in this part of the race but you can take a little bit of pain now you
Still have over 2 hours left to go in the race so still we know about this there will be a Twist of the T will happen you Bol cam Waters in that thing somewhere near the front of the grid and he will have a crack he’s come up short in the 1,000 so
Many times by so little that he won’t let it happen in this car so yeah he’ll he’ll un pick the secret ey racing shortcut at some point to get himself to the front as maximilan gots peels the calex car off into pit Lane so 77 where were they in in their Pit Stop Shuffle so this is their 13th time in pit Lane so 2 hours to go this stop plus one more and they should be all right to go to the end car 911 getting a bad sportsmanship flag for disabling blue flags so Harry
King has been very much eyes forward in the Shell car trying to keep his position in that Pro and battle so drive a change down craft bamboo racing great stint from Maxi goats this car’s been flooding around the top three for a good chunk of the second half of
This race having worked their way forward see the team there blowing out the radiator had a couple of AMG Mercedes particularly in the dry part of the race suffering with overheating so the team leaving nothing to chance and blowing out the radiator while the driver change takes
Place he’s our race leader on it’s Merry way anent gven now that Gap first to second near on 10 seconds so marching on its merry way as it has for the majority of the race in the lead of the race this car had a few things thrown at it drive through penalties
Miscommunication an extra drive through yeah Matt cbell was very honest about that when he SP to us and you know it’s hard nowadays to be anything else because we’ve got eyes and ears every yes exactly and the lead changed in traffic in spray was a tremendous run down Conrad
Straight out to the outside oh well yeah well it sus it up doesn’t it and that was much less of a lift than it ought to have been going round the outside into the chase there following in behind the 911 that was when they were catching up with that battle remember they were
Catching up with Harry King who was ping down uh reras for the lead of the pran class was so much the going around the outside of Tom Randall it was the commitment to do it before the king with lap cars in front of you not knowing
What they were going to do this is Bastian boo S I had a look thought about it and then eventually K velinda turned down this is the battle third for fourth the man EMA Porsche has proven how good it is in wet conditions this Phoenix Global car has shown us as well
From time to time how good it is in the wet Bo got a good run off turn one to the run up Mountain straight and you get the job done under breaks into turn two using the toe vandelinda sticking to the inside he’s not going to give him an option just boo
Swing to the inside he thinks about it vandelinda saw him coming shut that door as quick as boost had a look so vandelinda not going to let basan boost through they continue this battle for third and they’re second not far up the road so that’s why Vander Linda’s boxing on
Because he knows he can get himself up into second Thomas Randall just Ahead I like where this car’s at car 22 the Audi they’ve just been creeping up on it this is the best in ‘s been late in a race for the last couple of years they probably outgunned last year but vandalinda has been so good in that whole combination Liam talber did a nice
Job early contact grou of M down the inside of Triple Eight it’s Fourth position Brock FY and David Reynolds they’ll be boxing on in a week’s time attention all teams PLP penalties to cars 130 and 77 for breach of Bop I wonder if that stin l
Yeah I wonder if that stink lengths say it is confirmation car 130 and 77 So Daniel wadel behind the wheel of that craft bamboo C we just saw them in pit Lane will have to do a driveth through penalty and this guy too David Reynolds it’s not been gr M’s day
Today this was fun though for us perhaps not so much for Brock FY with a couple of wheels off under the bridge I’ve got a button here for these kind of things AMG on AMG AMG on AMG all much like the Flasher button on the steering wheel that button would be
Worn out worn out by yeah every time we pick up a shot of two RG cars near each other on the racetrack they inevitably run into each other this time it’s a couple of superc car Superstars having a crack at each other Dave Reynolds and Brock feni they’ll pick up hostilities
In a week’s time when we come back for the first round of the Supercar Championship as it stands right now feny gets through and that’s the battle for but as we heard Reynolds will have to come to the Lane and serve a penalty for a breach of the balance of performance
Regulations so so that’s that 150 minutes that we were talking about early on I think it’s laps in aent the 32 lap number okay Got so I wonder whether the teams have interpret wet weather running is not usual wet weather or not usual race conditions and thought well we can stretch it here because we wouldn’t use as much fuel in the wet so Chad might have more yeah it’s for going too many
Laps between refueling and the reason why it was hard to see on the numbers was because originally they had been in as we got a car up in the hit the wall rear suspension damage to link damage on the 77 so they’ve got bigger issues than
A drive- through penalty now H has done something that he seldom does it looks like there’s been a mistake there and that car has played in the wall rare Axel or rear left I think it’s a tolling yeah there’s also some damage on the right front as well God yes I wonder he
Got got pinched on La cars somewhere and ended up against the wall so here we go so he’s by himself here junella this is to run down to the great oh yeah it’s gone you can I can see it it’s broken yeah it’s broken on him Something’s Happened so whether he’s
Made contact with the wall somewhere else but the inside rear the unsighted rear tire is already moving and that’s why the car got away from Danny yadel wow probably the scariest part of the racetrack to lose control of the race car down the great well in the dry
It’s 220 plus so thinking it’s probably around the 180 Mark yeah gone yeah there he goes again as soon as he gets on the gone as he jumped down so I think it’s a toll link or re suspension AR they had been side by side
A couple of laps ago and you think all right side by side how does that happen well the wheels and tires aren’t straight up and down they’re cambered out which means the bottom of the wheel and tire sticks further out uh from the Bodywork than the top he’s done a good
Job to get this back here we go oh this is there we go so there contact with the outside wall there we go once again our replay crew doing a smashing job of tracing that back yeah so heavy contact with the outside wall at Salman Park
Results in the 77 car though were having to come to pit Lane to serve a drive-through penalty but that does not matter now as Danny yadel slowly drags that car back to pit Lane I went digging GTH I have news of a penalty nature so we saw the drive-through penalty for this car
Which is now obviously redundant but also for the 130 which is a a key contender in our race and it was for uh failing to adhere to balance performance and one of the balance of performance regulations is the length of a stint which started out the day at 32 laps now
They were given Grace to run 33 because of the changeable conditions uh those two cars that were penalized did 36 and 37 laps respectively so quite a significant breach doesn’t include safety collapse as well so I wonder if that’s where they got a bit muddled because they did spend quite a lot of
Time under yellow during that period but 36 and 37 so it’s a clear breach of the balance of performance regulations that’s why they’re getting a drive-through penalty and that’s why it’s going to cost them big time and that’s why all the other teams will be paying very close attention to how many
Laps they’ve Done detective inspector Richard CR there coming up with the goods nice work CR coming down to two hours to go gentlemen uh Now dog tires looking well they’re the unused communication so you can tell so radio issues for one of the audies see which one that was see if we
Can work it out from the I want to see what he says on the other side of the board it was Marini the number nine so it say crew members saying I don’t know if he saw it so what does it say on the other side we hear
You the dog will be if there’s a safy car a lucky dog because they’re within shouting distance of their proam Rivals so they’ve actually played a really good race Hallmark Property Group and NPC as the calex car is sadly going to be pushed back into pit Lane truy this Pit
Stop won’t count as their Drive penalty fortunately not so should they fix this car and get going again to come back in again and do a dra through penalty that’s more cruel yeah but that’s it doesn’t matter the results gone now H as hard awful a couple of weeks didn’t even
Get to drive the car he was meant to be racing uh in the Asian Lon series finale uh didn’t get into that at all and here that’s a very uncharacteristic mistake from Danny that’s a hell of a Ser thought to be fair it is is re rear
Wheel steer not where you want it no but not the first car to meet the concrete on the outside wall at Suman park that’s happened many many times s in the past such a high commitment part of the racetrack with absolutely zero room for
It to go wrong the te going to work to try and fix it it’s not a not a long fix cuz hun is staying in the car but it’s going to take them out of contention does matter well the best news that I can give you guys is when they put the
Car up on the air jacks the wheel didn’t sag so the piece that is broken is a singular piece it’s not the entire uh conjuncture of the AR but rather one piece that has gone a little bit uh flimflamming it’s it’s hanging where it shouldn’t but it shouldn’t be that long
Of a fix assuming that they decide to fix it all together yeah I would have a good look at the rear of that car though was a pretty significant impact with the wall given that they’ll lose a lap or two here you don’t want to lose a whole
Car as a result of hurrying to get it back out on the racetrack so importantly ancient gven put the 130 gri A M AMG Mercedes a lap down there so after their drive-through penalty for Dave Reynold he loses a lap so that is an important little note to make as strategy starts
To play out and this goes on headlamp flash button firing up now up towards the leaden skies above Mount Panorama Just Add Water for excitement don’t really need to do much of that normally at the rep baths 12 hours but this has been a very different looking race for
2024 added a lot of variables in supercars season 2024 a lot has been learned a lot has changed and we’ve got a lot to look forward to it’s starts with the baist Superfest following the baist 12h hour it’s time to kick off the new season at the Thrifty baist 500 Grace yourself for
Another great race Australia it is show this year a new Champion will be Crown take your pick it could be anyone’s who gets the job done today ticket information can be found at superc cars.com supercars Unforgettable that’s next weekend here at the mountain to 250k races to
Shootouts as well think of it as two completely different race meetings and if you can’t be here you don’t got your tickets to superc cars.com and you want of the Internationals don’t forget the Supercar super pass do like Shay and I do we can follow it all around the world
And all the details are at superc cars.com superpass watch it live watch it when you like super is a great thing for yeah uh you’ll have that I can’t believe you’re not staying to see a superc car race at Mount Panorama it’s a it’s a bad piece of logistical planning
I know you’ve got to go to the World Endurance Championship in catch so hang on next weekend it’s super bikes at uh Philip Island it’s prolog at Qatar track I haven’t been to at Lil and here for supercars and I really wanted to do all
Three of those but Chad would me the jet all two of those are in Australia we can get Tad jet you can do Saturday at pH you can do Sunday here at B yeah super car for/ super few is uh what I was trying to get my uh mouth around there
It’s a fabulous service all the details are there for you watch it live or watch it when You here’s the top three in the proom class L of stone this is all for position so Alex reras Harry King Jordan love lus turn battling it out here oh Luke Yen felmont Ali just a little bit wide does keep it on the bitchman it’s a craft bamboo team
Continue to look at this car and the rate at which they were repairing it has slowed up somewhat so significant contact with the wall I think Alex rer is just staying in there cuz he doesn’t want to face the team so I I mean you’re looking at potential
Drive shaft issues straight into the gear box you know those cards very well they’re pretty sturdy but a big hit yeah and for somehow like all concrete balls are hard but that one seems excessively hard I don’t know how but any car that goes in there is serious serious damage
Yeah and this on the socials from kit thanks Kit hash B12 HR anyone who thinks that M pan is panar pan isn’t that hard uh Danny Huna is an example Numero Uno that it actually is such a lot of experience for Danny and again small margins big consequences
Yeah unfortunately was pointed out to me that’s two years in a row for him at this place as well so that’s going to sting that’s why he’s still in the cockpit yeah he doesn’t want to talk to anybody now the reason Manti EMA are looking reasonably active down in pit
Laners because they’re very close to a pit stop could well be this lap 31 laps in this stint so far for aanan gven now they will be good you would imagine to go to the end from here with one potential pit stop depending on the pace
Of this race and this is the problem if they’re handing out drive-through penalties for going longer than the stint distance you are going to have to be really confident that the last time new pit is 33 laps or less away from the checked flag the problem is this isn’t a
Lap count race it’s a timed race that’s when you have lap based strategy around a timed race correct so that’s where you be so so careful so another number you need to remember is you can’t do more than an hour and a half driving time continuous this pit Stop’s taking place
With an hour and 52 and 1/2 minutes left in the race so be a little bit careful of that one still a few regulations you need to jump around minutes so 150 minutes so that one’s fine one one less box to which will be a relief because they the way they’ve
Spread their drivers out so are you leaving Chan in here are you put vant in here are you Mattis hasn’t been out of that car for an hour yet has he so he can’t quite get back in I think it’s V and you’re making your final stop probably with
Well it’s going to be an hour isn’t it 32 laps you’re making your final stop with about 50 minutes to go and you’re throwing M Campbell at it it’s a nice luxury to have isn’t it yeah you got Lawrence van Thor and Matt Campbell available to you we’ll find out what
They’ve done when it triggers the timing loop at the end of pit Lane and it’s a little RFID chip in the driver’s helmet that will tick over and tell us who’s behind the wheel so gooing out I’m actually I tell a yeah I I tell a li
Because of the slower lap times that’s been well over an hour that that’s yeah I’m sort of thinking back to 2 minute is laps yeah and what would it be enough that was nearly an hour and 20 minutes for Chan that time around so I I think
They’ll be running this last one to time yeah on the basis as long as they know they can get to the end and it’s not 33 laps cuz they’re giving them a laps gra brace on that stin time because the’re they’re not normal conditions so so this is
Proam is it or is that that’s our leader around the gri M car so for a minute there the group of M car was unla because a chenven came to pit Lane but now the new leader Bastian boost has got around Dave Reynolds in the 130g Mercedes so if it’s not one
Porsche leading it’s the other Porsche leading and this car has been in the front five for the majority of the race after qualifying well out of position for that car they’ve got themselves back in the game The Vortex is back out as well after its trials and tribulations that’s another
Team who uh don’t know the meanings of the word give up or possibly go to P you say that in French so we don’t expect to see Bastion Boo in the lane for probably 236 so we’re 229 now if not a little bit further down so that last stopped on lap
24 of this race so where the EMA Man car is at a little disadvantage their windows in this last hour and 50 minutes are very tight correct so with the basan boo F Phantom Global car going deeper into the race it opens the windows in the last part of the race so strategy
For man they almost got one hand tied behind their back a little bit there’s only so much that they can do get in the boxes that they’re constrained to buy and driving time fuel economy time to go the car with the biggest operating box is triple 2 because their last stop was
On lap 210 so they’ve got another four laps up their sleeve pushing right into that final hour of the race and then they can dictate when they make their final stop and who they Tull up to drive that final little stink to the flag actually bizarrely for the car that
Has been in the the lead so the 912 a little bit of full course yellow or safety car even where the lap time is longer that actually helps them out yeah well that just changes the whole context of the race again so so many variables still to go just under an
Hour and 50 minutes left in this one and at no stage in this race would we have thought that the triple 2 Scott Taylor Motorsport AMG Mercedes was actually looking the strongest of the AMG Fleet correct so you said that they’ done a great job strategy-wise they played
Themselves in they floated to the top they’re taking a little bit of pain by Triple stinting A wet tire but ultimately it’s going to work for them should it play out as we think and they’ll be right in the game into the last round of stocks I still think if it
Runs green 912 is in the best position but they’ll have they’ll have the least amount of stuff underneath them at the end of the race if it comes down to a an all-in battle like it so often does here at Mount Panorama so they should still get track
Position they’ll be the first of all the cars to pit so they’ll Shuffle back to the front but then they’ll be chased down by cars that could be lighter on fuel that could have better rubber beneath them as well Chad yeah the biggest issue for car 912 that I’ve got
Is I’ve got them getting to lap 261 uh as their next pit stop and that would happen to be probably about about n laps before the finish so it’s cars like this one on screen that are somewhere in that window being able to get to that magic 270 marker which is
Likely where this race is going to finish we’ll know a little bit more sort of as the the lapstick by but obviously but um I still don’t see that 912 getting home uh without making another stop obviously but there are others that can make it home with just the one more
Stop so you guys remember way back when when we had that flurry of safety cars and teams were stopping half a tank and Topping off and running alternate strategies to each other and we were saying well it’s going to change the play of the race for someone somewhere
Later in the day and it’s played out for the 912 that one of those half stin somewhere in there has made it things much more challenging for them here yeah and that was what was that 7 hours ago when all that started so you you you constantly working backwards from the
End of the race you just don’t know the decisions you make then how they affect the race later in the day and terms of laps you don’t know where the end of the race still is yet which is Ming TG a querk of endurance racing uh while we’re
Unpicking race strategy and trying to decipher what’s going on Jack Perkins has been busy out and about and patrolling the top of Mount Panorama back up here on the top of the mountain and I got to say there’s a lot of fans around but I’m Keen to know who
Everyone is supporting now who are you kid supporting the green Porsche uh the sun energy Mercedes green Porche green Porsche green Porsche here now what about the adults at the back who are you supporting sir ly ly I can tell by the shirt what about you yeah
Lans in the m b and what about you Sir Richard CR well what do you know KY there’s supporters up here supporting you mate that’s bloody good how much did that cost you like last year GTH I tell you absolutely nothing so you’ve managed to do a
Commercial deal it’s cost you zero to get exposure for your fan club so that’s the fans do I can I get a discount on my merch no because all of the merchandise money goes to charity GTH the Childhood Cancer Association South Australia I’m glad you clarified that it’s not the rich Foundation it’s
Not no well done Rich we do have a bit of fun with you but you do work your backside off for this event we give you a hard time we know that it takes an army it took to Saturday last year I got 10 hours into the race this year for
That make you sweat for this one we wanted to make you sweat for this one there’s no point doing it in the first hour let you sweat for a little while I’m going to tell you now it was going to be worse cuz we were going to have
The full merch set up with the cap and the flags don’t give away what we’re doing next year we could we couldn’t do it grills got it sold out couldn’t get any they’re going to have to get organized earlier yeah absolutely that’s enough of this let’s even sh couldn’t
Get any could you no but I didn’t try guys in all honesty um last year I spoke to J Ganan before the final final s to the race R now we’re in a situation where again it’s getting close to the final s you and Luca and Kenny have all
Done a great job and you’re still in a position to fight for this win does it feel similar to the previous years no I don’t think so this is another crazy batters 12 hour this condition are really difficult uh bit ear when there was a lot of water there was a lot of
Aqua planning at the top of the mountain it was really hard to stay on track but now looks like the Porche are quite not on our range yet but we will can e all us it’s all in so we will we will definitely go for it we don’t know who’s
Going to finish because we are again really really close on drive on driving time I’ve already done more than 4 hours something so we can’t put you know it’s very complex for us so let’s see I see Luka is catching quite well the second place car so let’s see what we can do
Good luck thank you very much and there it is there’s that bit of mental arithmetic that has to go on whilst you also making sure the car is fueled it’s got the right parelli Ties on now pass for position AMG Ong there’s that putting again wonder if they can
Get this one done without contact watch the over and under on that gu very small odds on that one John so this is the oh luga stal lock the rears down into the final corner so not easy to drive that car it wasn’t a very overly positive Jon
On things were going to work out in their favor this time round that’s not going to stop Lucas stalks having a go to get around Thomas Randle for second Place it’s still not I mean it’s not drying up at all is it there’s a bit more showers that come through heavy downpours that blow across the track and then disappear again so and it’s funny I I entirely believe you going on when he says we don’t know
I don’t think they do often you get a bit of PR speak from race car drivers and teams at this point of the day where they keep the deck of cards fairly close to the chest but right now this is an incredibly difficult to read motor race and the complexities that have been
Added this year around stint length and that pit stop time as well have just added to the challenge of unpicking this race strategy what is the maximum amount of time a single driver could do KY you had in total for the entire race yeah 340 minutes right okay so he’s already
Done he said a little over 4 hours that’s 24 so he’s probably all right to get back in we got left got 100 minutes left so so 5.6 hours just over 5 and a half hours and and I happily admit I had to get the calculator out for that so a
Driver can do 5.6 hours that’s why this rule we’ve been talking about with Kenny habul in this car Liam talber in the 22 works because your two pro drivers can do 11 hours and 10 minutes uh they can do 11 hours and 20 minutes of a 12-hour
Race yeah so your third driver only has to do 40 minutes if they’re gr bre but what it does as Chad and I especially have talked about with the ply pit bunker is reduce your flexibility and that’s where they’re at now that’s the problem is that they don’t know
How much time they’ve got to play with before the end of the race with each driver and that is the massive Challenge and if you go over that you might get the checker flag first but you won’t win the race because the stewards will clamp down on that very very quickly coming
Around to pit stop time at the front of the field with exactly 100 minutes to go that if it is fairly easy to work out started all the way back in in the dark and a quarter to six this morning in front of a huge
Crowd as the sun came up over the Blue Mountains we had some fantastic racing y Shaheen tipped into the bunler at the top of the mountain in the battle for the Pro Am category the first big incident took out one of the real hopefuls for the race the wrt
BMW and down in their garage was they were inconsolable been a little bit of frw on arm action as well that’s been penalized at various times through the race with the GT3 drivers being less than patient and then Mother Nature took a holded and cleared her hand lightning and thunder
And well a bit of contact at the top of the mountain as well but in amongst that some phenomenal racing often times it’s been EMG on EMG but also that blue Porsche number 13 carving its way through the Phantom team beying the fact that this is their first
Race and then wondrous stuff at Australia’s fastest M sport Corner an uncharacteristic eror by Daniel hooka broke the left rer suspension on the triple two car and that wow guys were not happy about what was going on there on the 77 car excuse me and that left the Porsches back in again
At the moment it’s Bastian boo who leads from the triple two car in second and here is the tail of the tape with the pelli leaderboard just under 20 seconds the gap between first and second with Luca stals just menacingly sitting there this is the two time winners in the
75 and good results for some of the pro arms get getting well inside the top 10 uh for the leading cars now and that’s going to be a decent battle to the end of the race as well as they’ve now got all of their pro drivers to do the last
98 minutes or so and now bosel class leaderboard has basan boo leading overall Pro Jord Love at the moment for Triple Eight jmr but my goodness has he got some competition right behind him wall racing Tony delberto with the beautiful Lamborghini in the red and white colors leading there in
GT4 Daniel biski in the Mercedes number 19 that’s been out a long time and the invitation class uh well that one has as I said before been a a poison chalice so still Communications issue clearly there G from the guys with their makeshift boards um that is not a class
That I’m familiar with here two wheels and two stroke but that looks too much fun you know where that is that’s the inside of turn two there’s a motocross track on someone’s property up there it’s a gr looking right every track walk when you come back here you have a look at that
Track and it’s getting bigger clearly the the kids are getting older cuz the jumps are getting bigger and more Brave it’s something that’s very cool to check out every time you come to BOS so yes still radio issues down there at Audi still not exactly sure which car
That is but it’s a nervous sign that you hang out when box next cuz you’re never sure whether they actually see it so they’re trying real hard to get their attention it’s the sceny markc hallmar car there it is so you can only do that so many times
Before the car runs out of Fiel so you certainly hope that the driver has seeing what you need to see let’s hear from Jack in the lane thanks G just an update on Jules G On’s driving time we got confirmation from the officials he has an hour and 40 driving time left and
It’s just clicked over to 1 hour3 6 so he right to get back in and see through to the checkered flag and I also tapped Matt Campbell on the shoulders and said hey mate you’re getting back in this car he said absolutely I said can you tell
Me when he said uh sometime between now and then that’s good race car driver answer that’s kind of answer You’ give Jacko so an hour 40 to go that’s good proof so that’s unpicking one piece of the puzzle so Lucas dos will hand over the sun energy One cars he’s got two
Left in this stint right now so the triple two will run longer they’ve got more laps up their sleeve which gives them more flexibility so you can put J goon on in car 75 from now and he’ll get to the end on driver time you have to
Stop again yeah and then you got to make sure you don’t breach the 32 lap stint distance as well so that’s where the window on the triple 2 car comes in they can go a bit deeper in this one and it gives them much more flexibility for the
Last stop whenever that may fall cuz in you as you get closer to the end of the 12 hours you can project more accurately what length that last int is going to be by my Reckoning Lucas stz will be coming in this time or the next time around as he’s already on his
32nd lap since he was last in the line so there’s frantic calculations going on here in the booth um fortunately we have pieces of paper so we don’t have to take shes and socks off that’s uh would be pleasant front of the field now 20 and a half
Seconds the gap between Bastian Bo Porsche young driver won the shoot out at ponal on the alav southern Europe at the back end of last year three days of testing racing running PR and that has been a door open to a career for many drivers in the past
Traffic playing its part again here gentlemen and nicely driven by The Vortex 701 pH bonell who is Vortex but that has led to a closing up staltz was coming anywhere he’s going to come to the pcks shortly but he still wants to maximize where he is on the track both of these
Drivers need a little bit of race smarts here because they are in slightly different car races at this point of the afternoon so a pin stop from this car very very soon Tom Randle can keep lapping race Mar hopefully at the Kink will he get down the inside randle’s
Going to not let him through there does Randall pull it up yes he does nice job so Thomas Randall more than up to the task as our race leader Bastion boost comes to the Lane so this is an important stop relative to Randall who comes to the Lane so that’s got us by
Surprise we expected Rand to go much deeper into the this than Lucas stals so stals now now with clear air and will assume the lead as the two leaders come to the Lane well I I reckon this is stals on his 33rd lap now yeah he’ll be in this
Lap and in theory will hand over to junan who’ll be good to go to the end so another massive day of workmanlike stints from Lucas stalls who got to qualify the car yesterday their their previous two wins luk has done a lot of the grunt work in the middle of the day
And all the hero stuff was done by gonan so in just an incredible display of teamwork and makeship between them said no it’s your turn you go and qualify the car Luca he did a really solid job yesterday and uh he has been spectacular today and really challenging conditions
So STM go to work they were scheduled for somewhere around lap 242 243 so they’ve come in a little bit earlier than anticipated tire changing crew on that team haven’t done much work for the last three pit stops so they would have had to wake up CU they triple triple stinted
Those wets to get them in the position they are so B we put those bit of a refresher course for the ti changing crew here’s a battle for the lead Porsche on Porsche net race lead and Bastion boo will return in front of aanen that is critical big from boo
That’s massive so that stint has been huge for the blue Porsche the G one’s got hot tires and a hot Drive of Fire up ready to go and he gets it very and it won’t get off here it’ll spin up yeah through g go he’ll go no not yeto not
Yet on still not yet boost is not going to give him the inside line but eventually Goen around the outside but there’s a little window in to Bastian boost about what he is prepared to do when it comes down to it newest Porsche young driver against established Porter Works driver
With Thomas Lowden back head of Porsche Motorsport down there watching in pit Lane I think that was all right good hey they didn’t need the touch no so that was good hard racing not AMG L I’m really enjoying what Bastion boo is doing in that car and now Lucas
Stalls peels off from the race lead so one lap LED for 75 added to their tally and he should hand this car over now he 116 of the 237 laps in today’s race Lucas stalls very very busy boy said yesterday he does the grunt work all
There you go 116 laps of 237 may as well be half the race so far would he Chan kin done 110 yeah and he’s still in the car and going again stuff what we talk about racing room and it’s a a fairly broad concept racing room that’s racing room yep yep you want
To know what racing room is then clear that bit of tap see how much of the throttle Anin gven had to get out of it at two and wait for Bastian boo to collect his car on the cold Tire couldn’t clear him at the Kink had to
Hang on the outside couldn’t clear him at the cutting had to go all the way around the outside and the warm Tire worked for him and gave him track position good hard racing between the two Porsches there’s the Gap that’s warm Tire versus warming fire so whilst
Bastian fuse did lose the race lead as a net gain that’s been that’s worked well for the third in car 5 Seconds he’s pulled out in the space of that lap now here comes Shilo out of the pit lanane it’s not SHO [Applause] So luk stalt scored still in that car to finish the race so we talked about Lucas St GTH being given the honor of qualifying and it looks like he’s going to do at least we’re going to need to check his 150 minutes on that he’s I don’t think he’s
Going to go to the end he’s still got one more stop to go Lucas stalls yeah yes no that they will stop again yeah and I would imagine that’s when Jill G will climb aboard and the 75 sun energy W AMG Mercedes on that driver Point time
Jack Perkinson just pointed out that Tom Randle sto was to drive a time yeah okay not F yeah which we saw with the leading Porche early on when Matt Campbell was in the car he was getting close to that 15 minutes of consistent driving remember that once you get out
Of the car you’ve got to be out of the car for 16 minutes 1 hour before you can get back in again now for most three driver cars that doesn’t matter but for these guys who effectively have got the Am driver out of the way turn themselves
Into a two driver effectively becomes a two driver car from whenever that arm Drive is G the end of the day we said earlier the best strategy is to drive fast and this has been the fastest car doesn’t matter if it’s wet or dry they continue to find themselves at
The front of the field so still feel like they’ve got one more strategy curveball they’ve got to get themselves around just with where they fall being slightly off sequence with the majority of the field haven’t had any rain for a little while so just you know often we sit here and we
Wish wish rain to come C over there the weather doesn’t come from over there joh BL guys out our com window and that’s all that matter it’s just about juice out it’s not drying rapidly though they’re still doing 220s and if you’re with us early in the day we’re talking
About that crossover time being somewhere around the 2 minute 15 2 minute 16 range when you get off the wet with a tire and put a Sleek on busy behind BMW versus Mercedes am G raphaeli martiello fending off brocki for seventh and eighth position these two cars still
On the lead lap of the race they’ll need some help to get into contention to win it but every position counts at this stage of the day at Mount Panorama and Brock py gets a good run out of turn one and we’ll draw a longside with the help
Of zro assist but as you pointed out earlier G that BMW has got some engine in a straight line straight line handling in that BMW is pretty good isn’t it so climbs the mountain very very well and also we think this Triple Eight National Storage AMG Mercedes got
A bit of Bodywork damage so that won’t help it straight line efficiency through the air uh guys um I’m looking at the nuts off timing which you can get on the internet you can watch it just see this is for position that’s Christopher Hara getting past Cameron
Waters I see think that car’s got a card to play as well actually the 22 Audi uh Lucas Do’s Pit Stop time Line to Line was 3 tense of a second too quick last time Around it’s the scene at Mount Panorama overlooking Brock’s Skyline and delighted to confirm that the official attendance 47333 people over the three days it’s the second largest attend across 3 days in ba 12-hour history wow so well done and thank you to everyone that’s turned out it was a record number of camping
Sales for the event this year so the campgrounds have been absolutely pumping since Wednesday from one famous endurance race to another the nuring 24-hour will be part of the Intercontinental GT challenge later on this year so just over 47,000 people this year is now one of the Premier
Events on the calendar give yourselves a big run with outstanding speaking of Premier let’s go down and catch up in the triple 2 garage with a guy who’s done a huge amount of work today we’ve got the headset on Young Gun Thomas Randall hello my friend good afternoon
How’s your day been yeah good afternoon boys uh a baptism baptism of fire was probably the best way to explain it I was pretty happy when cam was out in the wet and then brandan our Brandon and M our engineers said uh you’re in next and
If it’s raining we’ll deal with it and I said well I’ve actually never driven a jd3 car on the wet before so uh yeah it was pretty tricky obviously never driven this wet tire and and just trying to get used to the ABS and just trying different settings um playing with the
TC the a um the uh the brake bias and you know the intensity of the rain just kept changing throughout the whole well uh double two and a half stin I mean we we triple sended the wet tire then and um yeah I guess that’s what it worked
For us I mean I think my fastest lap was like my last lap and pretty cool to be racing good on there at the end I think we had a pretty nice battle and to get the car well yeah to be up I think we
Were P two when I PE it on not quite sure but um yeah it’s been a bit of a struggle for our car this weekend our um strengths aren’t where we want them and our weaknesses aren’t where we want them but um the rain I think has sort of
Leveled the playing field a bit I mean the Porsches I think are probably not as strong over the top but they’re very strong in a straight line and that’s something you need here um and I think that’s where the wet weather has helped us using utilizing the car’s strengths I
Mean yeah just a phenomenal job from the whole team at Scotty Taylor Motorsport Ash seawood who runs the car car it’s been an amazing program with with Cam Waters Craig LS um I’ve had a blast we’ve had so many laughs and I guess the weather station the uh you know the
Spider the snakes and LS all have come in handy and what will you take away from this then you know whatever happens at this point let’s not talk about results CU I don’t want to jinx anything Camp’s in the car now the car’s sitting in fifth there’s some pit stops to to
Happen ahead of you um what will you take away from this Win Lose or Draw I think just the experience I mean I’ve never done a about this 12h hour before you know I’ve never properly raced a gd3 car before until today the boys let me
Start and this morning in the dark which was an amazing experience the visor was a bit loose kept kept coming down which you don’t want when it’s dark um but yeah just the experience of it all I mean like I said got to thank Scotty Taylor for for letting me drive his car
And uh everyone putting the trust in me to drive it um yeah as I said it’s been a blast and fingers crossed uh yeah I could do more GT Racing in the future Tom I don’t know if you’ve got a screen here but your car is in the middle of a
Pretty good battle with rafhael marello right now hey tell us about that triple stint on the wet tires especially when the rain was coming through and it was raining quite heavily you would have lost a lot of tread depth so was the car difficult to manage in those conditions
I mean I think well uh Brendan was saying that people were putting new tires on and actually going slower they couldn’t activate the the tire for I’m not sure why I mean but it seemed like the used tire was okay and I think because it kept raining it kept the
Tires cool and we had a couple full course yellow in there as well which kept them cool I mean that certainly wasn’t cool we got unfortunately the helmet there left us about an hour and a half into the race um and yeah so it’s been bloody hot in the car but um yeah
As you can see I’ve utilized a fair bit of physical strength um yeah I only had Co a couple weeks ago but um yeah look no excuses uh look as you said whatever happens from here on out um you know it’s been it’s been a blast uh we
Started 13th and yeah we got up to Second there cam knows how to drive in the wet he’s he’s a master around baist and he does a lot of dirt racing so if someone can handle the wet I reckon it’s him he see into the end
Now can’t tell that oh you can’t come on just us it’s only us and everybody you’re listening on RSL and around the world that’s all I’m going to leave you boys guessing oh your te Hey Thomas you’ve been raising money for Prostate Cancer Foundation as this team has done
So superbly for a long time I I know it’s affected your life not necessarily prostate cancer but just talk to being part of that program and this great initiative that Scotty and his family and Rebecca and um Craig and Lara have been behind so heavily over the last
Well 3 years now um yeah I think it’s fantastic I mean I I think our sport uh there’s so much opportunity to do stuff like that and you know this is something that sc’s been doing for a couple of years now I mean one in five men uh die
Um by the time they’re 85 from prostate cancer you know I went through a cancer battle myself it wasn’t prostate cancer but in that region um so yeah something close to my heart and look I got to thank everyone who’s donated across the weekend we’ve been going pretty hard
With the uh with the the coin bucket and and uh Lara L has been on the card machine so whenever someone says I don’t have coins we got the backup with the f plus machine um and you know we’ve been having a blast every time someone donates um I was playing the harmonica
And and Scotty was playing the the slide whistle so we’ve been having a blast um yeah that I think that’s the main thing and the awareness side of it you know get checked it’s on the rear wing um CU not enough men get checked early enough where’s the harmonica come from Aid do
You have one handy to play us a little uh uh sorry I didn’t actually carry it on me in the car but um it was actually from a shop I think it’s called the Petri Cafe and I I mean I just bought a whole chunk of stuff and I think Scotty
Was looking at me like you know I’m this six-year-old kid you know I’ve wandered to the other end of the supermarket um and but hey he was pretty encouraging and um you know like I said it’s been a lot of fun uh thank you Tom appreciate it we’re looking forward to seeing you
Next week in the Thrifty BS 500 for tickford racing in the castol car but congratulations on your Herculean effort today mate well done and hope the rest of the afternoon goes well I appreciate it boys thanks for the chat well done M he a great young character one of the
Future superstars of our sport I think and already some great results coming his way in the Repco supercars championship and he’ll be on the grid this year they produced a very cool promotional video tickford racing launching their liveries for the year and he’s alarmingly good at the acting thing as well Tom
Multi-talented he’s done a little bit of commentary with me in the past and he’s frighteningly good at that too put us all out of a gig one day next week 2325 of February head to superc cars.com to get your tickets and if you’re overseas you can sign up for superview as well to
Watch it online that’s next week this is now we’ve got an hour and 18 to go in this one and Shay is busy in the lane with one of the drivers who if you had started off at the beginning of the day saying to Kelvin vandelinda all right
We’ve got just over an hour to go your car is in the top five you got a shot at this win would you have taken that yeah I really would have to be honest I think um in the Dy it was very difficult to overtake early on so we were struggling
To make strides to the front um then the wet came it looked like we had a bit more options bit more ways to play and uh yeah got into the top three game but unfortunately yeah just missing that outright Pace at the end now it would be
Kind of poetic to have the two brothers one get pull and one get the race win uh Sheldon obviously his race coming to an end a lot earlier on has he been supporting you throughout all of this your race now so just had they lost bit again I has
Has Sheldon been supporting you in your race now since his is over I think he’s probably in the room somewhere in the hotel just drowning his Sorrows to be honest I’m really sorry for him and and the team obviously they didn’t deserve that um I was right behind following
Obviously saw it happen and was so unnecessary so early in the race but uh yeah that’s racing it’s happened to all of us at some point um we keep fighting I think we’ve got a sniff at the podium um really depends how the how the rain
Plays out you know um so many factors to it but uh it’s great to be back here at BS I think my brother would have said the same it’s every an honor to come back and despite him having a bit of bad luck he I’m sure he’s uh really happy
Could come back this has now become a race where there’s no wiggle room in the regulations so you just have to win it on the racetrack that puts a smile on your face I know to go out and make the driver make the difference doesn’t it
Yeah I think on you you can see it either way obviously we’ve lost a couple of our strategic options which we had in the past in BS we we had the fuel saving and a couple of things we could do in the past nowadays it’s outright speed
And if you can’t overtake then you kind of follow in the pack so I think today the rain is spice of the race but I think if it was dry it would have probably been a bit of a yeah just driving along in the train so I’m happy
The way things worked out I think the fans hopefully had a great time watching um and yeah still just over an hour to go so still Lots happen good luck at the trophy thanks a lot guys just over an hour to go and now 16 to go and the
Times are coming down particularly at the front of the fields under 220 now for a Chan gven in the leading Porsche the 912 G car we reckon about 16s is where you are the one thing I would say is a lot of times are coming down when you’re staying online G this
Is not like it was before where there was enough heat in the day and enough heat in the track to be able to dry out the whole track it’s just on the racing line it is a one Grove track if you would have go on to slicks right now ah
It certainly is I’ve been noticing and keeping an eye on the times that they’re starting to drop under the 220s an and Goen last time around 290 so the lap times continue to drop but you’re right John it is not drying out at the same rate which it dried out this
Morning where the tra is so much more radiant heating it from the Sun and the Heat of the day that heat of the day is gone it’s much much cooler now a cool breeze and the wind is actually blowing from the opposite direction that it was
This morning as well so a much different weather pattern across the circuit than what we had in the midpoint of the day but should it not rain again we will go to slicks at some stage before this race and that creates a whole other issue around when do you do that when’s the
Crossover how does that fit into your driving time how does that fit into your fuel strategy so lots of interesting options available from a strategy point of view Brock feni in the Triple Eight AMG Mercedes comes to the Lane that looked like Mel graner suited and booted
Ready to jump aboard that car and I would say he’s bringing that car home it’s grer so remember this car has got some Bodywork damage so I’m curious to see whether they dive underneath and have a bit of a look at that because when Brock feni left pit Lane we heard
It and it was pretty significant so they’ll do the normal service straight away drivers change gets underway Fuel reconnects and you can do remedial work whilst the car is up so long as you have the solid Safety Stand safety stands around the jacking points uh well
They’re not looking at the front not yet they haven’t offered tires to that car either so they’re learning as well they learned from the triple 2 Team whe stay with the warm Tire the team car the 88 that’s got some Sparks and has that got some issues
Underneath as well the mid part of the car That car was off earlier we’ prin Jeffrey behind the wheel as we Circle back to our race leader 10 seconds the margin but a reminder this Porsche slightly out of syn with the other key contenders for the race and the big question mark now is can they make it to
The end on one stop or two and they will be the first to roll into pit Lane that’s the big question mark with a can leading the race Jack yeah guys really cool to be down here with Valentino Rossi you didn’t drive the car in the wet but with just over an
Hour to go P5 potential for the podium yeah it’s a great shame for the for the for the rain uh also for all the fans because they take a lot of water and and also for us because uh I I I cannot do
My my third stint on on the on the wet H we prefer to let Lelo and Maxim continue to drive and also for our potential because on the drive we can fight for the victory so butth you know now H if uh the condition remain dry and
We can put the Sleek uh it’s not over is uh more than one hour and uh usually if we put the Sleek in this condition our car is very fast so we can try have you put your helmet a while or you might jump in at the end yourself no Maxim
Will go so for me I think that is is finished but anyway I enjoy a lot I make more than two hours uh on the on the car and I improve a lot my Pace compared to to last year and I can fight with the
With the top guys so I’m happy I have to ask you what do you tell your friends about BOS when you get back to Italy yeah you know it’s h it’s a very famous uh race track in in Europe especially because we we play a lot with the
Simulator you know and uh it’s a great weekend H because I have a great atmosphere a lot of fans and the track is fantastic would you like to come back in October and race the BOS 1000 yeah no I think that I will come back next
February with the with the with the BMW perfect man thank you for your time and thank you for coming out to BS we love having you here thank you thank you very much hi he’s been a absolute superstar in everything that he’s done this weekend
Well we know it’s a superstar out of the race car and I think today he proved his Superstar inside the race car as well he said I’m happy I’m happy with what he did man he should be very happy with what he did because he’s made the point
That he went with the fast guys and the fast guy that he went with was jel Gant who won this race the last three years in a row front Splitter on the 88 so that was the Sparks that we saw in a replay earlier and that car came to the Lane
And they’ve got the the bond on it 100 m an hour tape you probably need 200 mph tape for these cars but I’m not sure that’s going to do what they need it to do now you see Colin white down at janeta would have had a couple of metal
Brackets uh on that and the rivet gun straight through it he would have had that sorted in about 25 seconds I kid you not did a did a fencing Waring gun cable ties absolutely mged that to the hilt the 24 hours at saing that we had a
Few years ago where the Janetta was there it was all kinds of the different colors uh with tape and all kinds on it it doesn’t have to be pretty it just has to stay together particularly when you get into an hour and 10 minutes still a huge International audience hello to San
Diego and Randy Sherwood watching us in the uh on the west coast of the USA thank you for joining in with the conversation all of you it’s #b12 HR and there’s still 70 minutes to go and we’re still scratching our head there I’m not sure we know who’s going to win this quite
[Applause] yet aan Chen gven making his way down Conrad straight and starting to look for the wet edges of the RAC trck we’ve been starting to tease out where the slick tires might become an option towards the end of this one and the crossover lap time
Last time we went from wets to slicks was just under a 216 and last time round the fastest car on track was Lucas stals with a 2164 so we’re starting to get back towards that territory that a slick tire might be the tire to be on but you made
The point earlier John that the dry line is a much narrower dry line this time around than last time when the track dried out you can see right there Mikel grener turning in and losing the rear on a cold wet tire so should you go to a
Slick you need to make sure you stay well within the tram tracks that is a dry line around the racetrack I don’t know we’ve lost some cars through reliability and and contact there’s still enough traffic out there even accounting for the fact that one or two might come back is walking wounded in
The last hour to take the checked flag whether or not they’re officially classified there’s a a whole other bit of calculation to do to to make that but people like to come out and take the check of flag so you’re going to have to go offline and people are hunting yeah
For the for the wet now you certainly have to I mean there’s enough of a dry line for it to be overheating the wet tire so any chance that you can you go looking for some standing water to cool the tire but given what we know about
How long it takes to heat up the slick when it even when it was warm much warmer than it is now having to go offline to pass someone and lose all heat out of your slick that you’ve assiduously built up that’s going to be tough what was also interesting just
Tracking those lap times it went from 220 220 220 219 bang 16 16 so they’re not far so they’re they’re all just running now until that next Pit Stop where they can hopefully put slicks on and Fuel and then just get to the end the reason that that happens rich is the
Track it almost opens up you can see it go from dark gray to light gray when the dry line actually opens up and it opens up rapidly once it starts to dry out so you can actually see down through the ess’s and the Dipper there it was actually still quite wet cuz there
Shaded from the trees through there Luca STS up the inside into Forest elbow so although we’re starting to see the lap times for The Crossover I’m not sure the conditions are there yet but they’re coming they are certainly coming and you do not want to Bow a wide right there and Bastian Boo right on Q so that is on Q as far as staying in the tram tracks and that’s on a hot wet tire so we’re still some time away from a slick tire but will that line up with the next round of pit stops fascinating strategy wise how this is
Going to play out 67 minutes to go as the AMG heads into pit Lane and that is that’s going to be tight to get to the end from here they might just have to make one extra stop but it all depend on they how quickly this dries up but it is
Drying up now here at the mountain for the repore B 12 hours 2024 you’re planning your next getaway why not select this part of the world BST is a sensational place to come and visit perfect scenery there’s great shopping in the vicinity as well Farmers Market you could go gold panning believe
It or not the river just near safala mccy River’s got some great cycling trails nearby Adventure Playground the abic crobby caves aren’t far from here and plenty of natural Wildlife too in fact on any given day of the week if you go for an amble around the mountain
You’ll see plenty of Skippy and his fairy friends it’s a great part of the world we’re thoroughly enjoying it in a captivating Repco BST 12 hour which delivers us somewhere in the vicinity of six or seven contenders and we’re not sure which one of them will come out on
Top in 65 minutes and 30 seconds at the end of this race Rafel martiello has just gone under the 2 minute 16 a 2157 so there’s that track development that track Improvement and the speed and the performance coming back to the BMW number 46 remember it’s not really got
That hot today for the BMW with the turbo charges it’s still quite a heavy atmosphere so that car is loving that but I’m still I would be very very careful about going on this s some of the passes we saw just a few minutes ago where you go offline down into the elbow
On slick tires that would be treacherous well the track might be ready for slicks but from a strategy point of view not quite so they’re playing the game right now and trying to extend this stint as long as they can into the race to get to
That final Pit Stop to fill the car up to the end to put a driver who’s got driving time up his sleeve to get to the end and then put a slick Tire on for that last skin yeah I think that’s a good point if this was a heads up race
Someone to be in and on a set Tire if they didn’t have to do an 85 second pit stop as part of the rig so they have to take all that into consideration and try and line everything up from a strategy point of view these two cars now Christopher har
And rafhael mattiel the two fastest cars on track at the minute so stals just did a 15-2 so everyone now starting to find lap time and a cracking battle by the way still going on at the bottom end of the top 10 ninth 10th and 11 for the Pro Am
Podium Alex reres with about 6 seconds on alesio picarello Mercedes versus Porsche and then another Well barely a second further back from jimy winup in the 88 chasing them both down at the moment for the bazelle pro armed Cup Christopher Hara and rapel Yow much yellow looking for as much wet track as they can find but they’re starting to run out of it it’s actually in down conrod and up Mountain straight down pit straight where you traditionally go to try and cool the tire they’re running
Out of wet stuff to run in so then you start hanging on a little bit wider here at the exit of the turn two for the run up to the cutting and you start to put your car in some stranger positions simply to keep the tire cool and run it
Through the wet and you might say why would you go off the dry line and to the wet line but the wet Tire actually works better like that we heard from Paul Tracy saying earlier that it was actually more grip in the greasy it was trickier in the greasy conditions and
You’re better off to run the car in the wet than you were in the greasier conditions so you just steep the car offline in a few strategic positions to keep the tire cool it looks like a raw Tire because it’s got grooves uh rather on the C circumference or lateral GRS
And they the ones that run across are called cypes they’re the channel the water yeah they channel the water with you don’t get it’s a Comm misconception you don’t get the grip from the grooves you get the grip from the bit in between that’s what’s touching the ground and you’re wearing
That away and the construction of the tire and the compound of the black stuff there’s very little if any rubber in it now it’s a synthetic materials in in tires that is what gives you the the grip and it’s very different from what the Slick tire is because there’s more
Of the Slick Tire on the road you can do different things with it so when it goes if you get too much surface temperature and overheat the carass when it goes uh wet with a tire ghost you can’t get it back you just can’t get it f and you
Live hard up oh yeah and around here it is hard work because it’s high speed long constant radius Corners incomes Raphael martiello so what tire do they stick on this car slick it has to be a slick Tire has to be a slick tire for this
Car while we’re waiting 2 there you go I feel like oh hang on a minute that’s uh that’s banned ceron that’s now banned in iRacing cooling your tires down in Sim racing world it’s bad in Australia too because there was a a guy that used to race in supercars called Shane Van
Ginsburg that was doing in Sydney mode for Park and they said no no can’t do that anymore I don’t think cam was trying to do it he just forgot that he’s in a left hand drive car well been racing on the mud all summer and clay
And spr car racing so wanted to feel at home so slicks are going on car 46 this is the first of the outright contenders making a stop theoretically to get to the end of the show today and the point Rich you make a good point there because
They did have to come in now they were only 13 14 laps into the stint so this is now back timing to time and they’re going right we’re going from here here’s the role of the dice we think we can get an advantage by going early
In this first part of the race people staying out had the advantage but they’re going to have hotter slick tires when everybody else comes in and if it doesn’t rain again this might be a strategic Master Str from Von Vos and the rest of wrt that car as it’s dried out has had
Some serious Pace coming back into it so it wasn’t great in the W that front splitter so the repair did not last very long for Jor motor racing Triple H we were watching Alex riberas earlier he’s actually just stopped and was leading the Pro Am class alesio picelo now leads
That in the Manti EMA number 911 and Ninth outright for that car with Harry King and yasa shahin so that’s a fascinating battle that is far from decided the proam fight going right down to the end so here we go we are into the last
Hour of the Repco BST 12h hour boy have we seen some magic moments here at this mountain in this final hour of the race you couldn’t believe that a 12 hour race always comes down to the finish so let’s just quickly recap the history here and some of the incredible things that we
Have seen late in the race how about this one 2015 Godzilla up Mountain straight in the hands of katam masio passing it felt like everybody on that restart the heroics in 2015 to win that race let’s move forward to have at this moment 2017 wing cup versus Shane bang
Gbur and wing cup with his wheels on the dirt as SV Tre tried to defend ultimately the STM car crashed out on that day and we heard the amazing interview with Maro Engel that was 2017 happened to the last hour this was a shocker wasn’t it 2018 the red flag came
Out ended that race early with the wi Audi leading at that point and they were smoked on their strategy ultimately winning the race thankfully both those drivers were in time okay we move forward to the very next year hopefully there we go 2019 one of my favorite moments ever at the mountain Matt
Campbell the heroics to the inside of Jake Dennis now a Formula E world champion down the inside at the elbow getting Porsche’s first win here in the 12h hour with some true Matty Campbell heroics you bet that was in the last last hour and how about this one from
Last year the two AMG Mercedes Maro angle trying desperately to get to the inside of Jill gunan spinning him around redress the position goonan goes on to win that race so many amazing moments have happened in the last hour on a drying track with seven cars on the lead
Lap still Jack Perkins you get the feeling that last hour is going to turn it on once again absolutely right Chad the stage is Set Young MADD Campbell ready to go is he our best chance for Australian victory the truth will come in the pit stop strategy when he gets
Back in the car can they make it home on just the one stop or will they have to stop twice from here so victory for Porsche and an Australian driver may lie in the hands of young Matt Campbell or it can lie in the hands of young Jackson
Evans Matt Campbell’s roommate when the two of them first moved to sto guard Germany to pursue the dream of becoming a factory Porsche driver it is Jackson who is being tasked to take the number 13 Phantom Global racing Porsche to the checkered flag and if you look over my
Shoulder there’s a man whose name is teimo Bernard he has been helping out this team to try and adapt to racing over here he has been one of the reasons that this team has done so well and why you might ask well because Teo Bernard’s won every major race that there is for
Pora as well as forou nice little scene Setter from our team down in pit Lane building up to the finish of this race with 57 minutes to go this is the moment where sun energy 1 engages zunon mode and plugs in the three time winner of this race into 75
Chris haza will be behind the wheel of 22 he’s in the lane now as well in the Audi so second and third on the road I tell you what there’s some people that are going to be properly stressed if this comes down to a fight between jacksson Evans and Matt Campbell at the
End of this race because they’re basically growing up together in Motorsport here and indeed in their Journey overseas so that could be a particularly interesting thing between the Porsche boys so curious to see where this car pops out relative to Maxim Martin because Martin was the first car
To take slicks of our Front Runners so did the overcut on the hot wet Tire work better than going onto the cold slick Tire in these tricky conditions cam Waters has already been in and out and taking a slick Tire while we’re getting that scene set up from pit Lan and our
Crew so the 75 car has dropped and waiting for his time here’s Maxim Martin he has a bit of traffic sector times are strong on this lap but it’s taken a lap or two to get the temperature where he needs to do it there’s an example of having to go
Offline and get the pass done in a on a wet line before he has to turn into the chase gan’s done he’s up and out and up Mountain straight here comes hassa in the 22 outing and Max Martin was 3 seconds quicker than the leader in the
First sector last time around and he’s now up to temperature or thereabout with those pelli slicks certainly Much More Much More temperature than Christopher H so H has come out in front but he has a cold Tire whereas Martin has three laps of temperature in the tire in the wrt M4
BMW so whilst H has the lead right now he’ll have to stop the car to make a turn here at two does Martin try and go around the outside does he switch back now he has to go offline H is not to make it easy for him does he have enough
Run to get around the outside before the king yes he does that was critical he had to get it done there because if he didn’t get it done before the cutting a single line across the top and that was purely temperature and grip there that undercut worked yeah it did this time it
Did this time that’s amazing and that I mean it’s brave but he had the confidence in the tie quite clearly that’s a performance Advantage then for that number 46 six and for Maxi Marte so anyone else pitting ahead of him and we’ll now have to see where they come
Out in relation have WT played the Blinder by going early we’ve got to ask the question can he get to the end without stopping again cuz he was the first Rich to go down the lane and put the pelli Slicks on stop with around an hour to go so
Expect that they should be able to get to the end from there so change the car 13 Bastion boo out and as we heard from Shay Adam Jackson Evans in to finish the race there’s M Campbell so Matt will jump aboard car 912 so theyve uh G’s been 24 laps since
He stopped he’s done 126 laps today anen Carri the back of Manti EMA going to come this time they they they’re going to they do not want to leave it any later and here he peels off left-handed into the pit lanane meantime so this is the pass
Martin on H just has to wait wait wait in the middle of turn two then gas it up and hope that you get the drive off too and get around the outside cuz you do not want to hang around the outside at the kink in a drying track with a narrow
Dry line and the job done did Martin fair to say he was having to work on his throttle application there so crucial stop now for manai EMA and Matt Campbell reinstalled they have to now this no errors no little 1centers with a breach of regulations nail the 85 seconds
Maximum or minimum time in pit Lane for pit entry to pit out take an extra second if you need it cuz they had a little bit of track position but this could be the car race right here blowing out the dirt from the radiators there that’s a an air exit the
Channels air up over the front of what would normally be the luggage compartment in a in a 911 but that’s full of gobin under there including cooling radiators so they’re going to set Matt Campbell off on stun gets a bit of wheel spin out of the box to put some
Heat into the rear slicks and this is going to be an important rejoin G so Gan making his way into the chase as Matt Campbell makes his way to the exit of pit lanane so Matt’s got track position but he’s got coldly tires and the team car from
Making it a little bit more difficult for gonan to get around so M Campbell halfway up M straight As Jill gunong comes across the line so 138 that lap for goonan he has temperature in his tires so Med Campbell although he has a reasonable Gap over Z gunan that’ll
Close down quickly as the tire comes up to temperature for Matt Campbell but I’d have to say Campbell’s got enough up his sleeve that he can bring the tire in gently and still be okay from goonan as it stands right now and just a track Evolution and also bringing the tire in
Maxim Martin three laps since he stopped one 105 75 that yeah so they’re now it’s so quickly back up to something resembling proper race Pace in one of these cars 75 sun energy one Jan in a reverse of last year is hunting down Matt Campbell remember last year it
Was G doing the same to 75 so the same protagonists have found their way to the front just in a slightly reversed order 12 12 months later Rich wed go on there K St he’s showing two laps right okay So no real advantage or disadvantage there in terms of tire and fuel they should be good to go now right to the end and the only the only question mark will be is with that stint length we’ve been talking about they big three laps in a stint race they can do
33 laps in 50 minutes well then the pace is going to be particularly hot yeah I can’t see that I think I’m seeing 28 27 and in that case 912 is got two laps advantage over 75 because Matt just stop you’s already been out for two laps
Give you a lap time check as they come around so Campbell out on cold perelli tires This Time by the margin 13 seconds at the elbow at the last timing intermediate so Campbell across the line to start his first flyer and here’s Jill gonan now in 75 being chased by Phantom Global with
Jackson Evans go on on 116 Jackson Evans across the line now in third to 130 so goon on with those extra lap Advantage entire warm up and preparation showing the extra Pace in the margin 12.8 seconds now main time the bot of the top 10 the bzel proarm cup for Jimmy winup
The leader the 88 car has got you see he’s got d That’s opened up hasn’t it that’s uh 20 seconds I think he’s going to need it though because car’s in a world of pain with the front split up yeah saw them trying to tape that together and you’ve heard from our
Effects miks that thing is flapping hard so that’s not going to have the front down force that they would expect it would so and Ros gun is chasing him down yeah so Ross gun there the next car behind like you said John 20 21 seconds behind and then the
Next one in line is pck gell in the Porsche and remember what the Porsches did early over a longer run in dry conditions those cars were the strongest at the end of a stint before a KCK stop so in the push to the line they could be
In particularly good shape pello had a horrible last left two guys ahead 220 against 209 and a 212 so I’m not sure whether he got traffic in the wrong place cuz traffic give traffic take it away of course particularly around here that’s the battle for the pro arm and
We’ll be celebrating them as well at the end we said we wouldn’t kind of talk to it until we got to this area we’re inside the inside the last hour now so a couple of little bits of pieces that change um should it be required to have
A safety car as the vortex goes around New South Wales visit New South Wales Corner are coming to the restart all the lap cars have got got to go down the pit Lane and get out of the way and in that 701 it’s Julian guo the
Guy who started the uh safety car this morning the first safety car this morning now he’s rolled so he can see Back Down Mountain straight and is he going to try and flick turn it he won’t have enough lock oh put your foot down you would have
Made that that it doesn’t Bott him out here it’s exactly what’s happened it’s absolutely exactly oh has has right on the Apex of Griffin visit New southw Corner just FL safy car boards and flags safety car all bets are off all bets are off Campbell goon on
Jackson Evans are going to be line of St on a restart with no cars between us and that Mike smartan next up then Chris haer I’ve had a feeling about the 22 car I said that earlier on and Chris haard was looking well confident in that Audi
Earlier on cam Waters Grenier Maro Engle and then jimy winup Ross gun and alyso P for the top 11 uh they’re battling for proam oh my goodness the drama the drama Jerry brookheimer couldn’t rate this one this is an absolute going to be an absolute run to the flag proper shoot
Out 46 minutes on the clock can I walk you through the last four BS 12-hour winners 2023 on 2022 on 2020 on 2019 Matt Campbell so the last four races between these two guys at the front of the field you have to rewind 12 months it was these two guys just opposite
Direction so does Jill Gan now have the chance to have a crack at Matt Campbell he was the hunted last time now he’s the Hunter he might have to get aggressive we know how good that porer is on the restarts and at the end of the stints so
All bets are off now strategy has got out the window doesn’t matter this everything’s Unwound the Stagger if you like to use an Athletics term the Stagger has Unwound because everybody goes full Rich flat out full sent to the Finish nobody’s going to have any worries uh about the stint lengths
Because we’re doing slower lap times nobody’s going to have any worries about their tires because they’re all on slicks and nobody has any worries about fuel either so it’s all coming down to however many laps we get and how much time we get once we get the vortex moved
From Griffin B it’s even better than that John because there’ll be no lap cars between two of them yeah yeah they’ve got to pull off they’ve got to go down the pit Lan heads up absolutely heads Up Racing how many on the lead lap right now try uh wait till MC grener
Crosses the line just to make sure that Triple Eight yeah I think it is cuz the grouper m130 was a lap down with their various mes they’ve had today so the equal most cars on the lead La at the finish of this race is seven it’s happened three times in the past and
Importantly no more lucky dog that windows closed so no one else is jumping onto the lead lap at the end of this one and also importantly that means that they won’t catch the lapped car or the lucky dog cars as quickly so we’ll have a green clear racetrack for a longer run
Before we get the traffic so plenty of interest at this restart once we go green again the the interest for mine sits in third place with Jackson Evans and the performance of the Porsches we’ve been talking about all day over a stint and the pace that they have been
Having this is building to a massive finish there will be 40 minutes to go in this race and some of the very best drivers in in GT Racing in the world will be fired up ready to go in a shootout to win Australia’s International endurance race and the two
Guys that duked it out last year in a different order will battle for the lead queensland’s Matt Campbell and the flying Frenchman jonan who stands on the edge of History potentially with a fourth straight B Ino win and that has never ever been done before this is going to be huge
If you’re going to move now do it because quick get the kettle on get whatever you need for the next 43 minutes because you are not going to want to go anywhere if you’ve made it this long wherever you are around the world congratulations but whatever
You’ve got to get into your uh into yourself whether it’s coffee or chocolate or whatever to get you to the end of this race make sure you do it now this is drama for for the leader in proam this is the car that jamy winup is aboard at the moment and they’ve been
Having recurring problems with the front end of that AMG and the the racer tape is not cutting it I’m afraid they can’t get enough uh Can’t Get Enough structural rigidity into that as soon as the that car gets up to speed it just breaks the tape because that is what the
Splitter is meant to do create down Force and pull the front of the car Down question now gentlemen on the restart who gets heat back into their pelli slicks quickest it’s a good question because we’ve spoken about the Porsche how it’s taken a few extra laps to bring the tire in the car that I want to watch at this restart is the car in
Fourth Maxim Martin yeah because that thing up Mountain straight has been El electric so Jackson Evans who’s currently third better make sure he gets through turn one and gets through turn one well because it doesn’t matter if he if Evans defends to the inside Martin will just go straight around the outside
We’ve seen him do it already today in that car and it’s been so strong in a straight line well just casting my mind back to another famous Baus 12-hour moment when a big turbocharged front engine coup started on a late race restart in fourth position and led by
The time they got to the humped Mountain stre great 2015 katam masio and GTR not a completely dissimilar Theory between those two cars as well with the M4 I don’t know if that car’s got it in it but they will give it a good go it’s not quite GTR the BMW
But reminiscent of that for sure hope today it’s a bit going on here with the 911 car wanting the 20 Invitational IRC car to maybe just get on with it because the que has formed and Adam Hargraves is not so whether he is still in the 80k an hour
Mode or now he starting to get going but the safety car is on actually Mountain straight so it’s holding up some of our Pro Am competitors I can’t see rest control waiting for them to catch up to be honest there’s uh we’re inside the last hour and they’ll want to get this back
To green as quickly as possible lights haven’t gone out yet on the BMW XM safety car they I think there may have been a miscommunication to highres perhaps who was still doing 80k now but they’re they’re allowed to catch up to the back of the safety car Q now we’ve
Seen that a few times today actually with little clumps of cars that have been off the back of the queue and I think that’s the transition where we’ve changed to this all field slow to 80 km hour maintain 80 km an hour until the track is safe and then you can trans
Transition and form up so you don’t then have to follow the 80k an hour rule set so that’s what they’re doing now but some of the Australian drivers just adjusting a little bit to that on the run and you can understand that God because what you don’t want is people
Trying to catch the end of the safety card trade while we’ve still got trap workers pulling someone out of the fence or clearing up some de de break so I don’t have a problem yeah and the idea behind that is that if the cars are all
Doing 80 km an hour at all times that means the workers can get out onto the track more quickly and get the recovery done more quickly rather than waiting for the field to Bunch up and then only doing it in the Gap in between when the
Field goes by so it is designed to make a safety car period a much shorter Hal or pause on the race if you like under 40 minutes to go we’re behind the XM the BMW XM safety car and it’s all to play for history in the making
Or an Aussie win with Matt Campbell find out in the next 37 minutes it’s been an incredible day on Mount Panorama it always is it’s not finished yet it’s not the Repco BS 12h hour at 5:45 a.m. this morning another day full of drama a key Contender
Eliminated early in a huge accident on the run up to The Cutting for Charles WS it was day over for wrt it was day over but there still got one horse in this race that was a big moment for the number two Audi they would ultimately
Fail to finish this race as well the thunder and lightning and pouring rain came and Jack Le Brock CAU the full force of Brock Skyline at the top of the hill and pireta down a brave run all day for craft bamboo racing in the calex car they were good they were contenders
Danel yadel found the fence and all of a sudden they weren’t contenders and Maxi goats expressed the feelings of many in that team I’m sure the pit stop battle was well and truly on and the two Porsches have spent a lot of today trading blows at the front of the field
And this was a particularly intense battle with one car on good tires one that had already been out there and gello went past on the run up the hill around the cutting the battle was well and truly alive and then Audi who have just been grimly hanging on with car 22
All day Chris has is behind the wheel of that car now was battling with Maxim Martin and the BMW was able to squeeze past and then a safety car was called with the Invitational class Vortex the French entry making their debut at Mount Panorama Griffin Ben brought out the
Safety car 29-year-old queenslander Matt Campbell leads the race and this is how the pelli leaderboard looks for another ba shootout all the way to the checken flag hours and 20 minutes of a qualifying race KY for a 40 minute Dash and it will be Matt Campbell and Kenny habul who do it once
Again incredible let us know where your favorite driver is at the moment #b12 HR on the socials we love to get your thoughts on who you think’s going to win the race jump online and join the conversation there huge Global audience watching this one call it now though we don’t want you
Waiting till two laps from the end I want it know there’s the class leaders so boy Cell Pro am still led by 88 the Jor race ing Triple Eight car wouldn’t that be a feat to win at BST a week after winning two races back toback in
Asian Lam more in Abu Dhabi at Yas Marina Tony dberto the Lamborghini leading the silver class and they’ve got a couple of laps up their sleeve actually over Luke Yen Adam Christo continues to lead the way in team 19 in the Mercedes in GT4 and Adam Hargraves
On top in arguably the hardest class to win today the Invitational class cuz it has been a tale of Woe for so many contenders so the math is simple there are 35 minutes and 35 seconds until the final lap of the race starts we’re counting down to the final lap at
1743 local time in the east coast of Australia Matt Campbell in a Porsche leads J goonan in a Mercedes is second they’ won the last four about this 12 hours between them Jackson Evans is third for Phantom Global a team that’s never raced here before and then a BMW
Sits in fourth place with Maxim martinz and there are four brands in the top five cuz Chris harza in a very Speedy AUD R8 sits in fifth position when we come back to racing all of the lap cars will have to go down the pit Lane it’s all come down to This and these are the lap cars so no Wave by there’s no Lucky Dog in the final hour of the race they’ll have to go through pit Lane and drop right to the very back of the queue to get them out of way so it’ll stack all of our
Contenders up nicely for this run to the flag expect one more lap under the BMW XM safety car I’m just leaning out to to watch these lap cars come through because in there is the bazel pro arm battle and there are cars between first seconds uh in that scrap jimy winup is
Got a couple of lap cars between himself andol to safety car r control race control safety car maintain ad kph lights out this lap return to pit Lan please James Taylor Motorsport Australia race control confirming what Richard kle thought that we will go green next time
By with all the main players line of St turn all the lap cars all the traffic pollution is out of the way heads Up Racing with 30 minutes to go of 12 hours that is the rep c BST 12 hour for 2024 KC asked for the audience and to give to give their
Thoughts is it gonan is it Campbell well I can tell you on the RW Discord group it’s about 5050 so they know as much as we do right at the mall they are they’re on the fence as well well they they are a very well-informed group it is our our
W but they follow all endurance racing across the world there’s a there’s a lot of collective knowledge in that group and if one man V one vote it’s about evenly split between the Porsche and the triple winner sh gonon going for the fourth win in a row never been done before in any
Endurance race and that includes the 1,000 that’s incredible actually so Peter Brock did everything at this place never won four times in a row Larry Perkins Jim Richards Jamie winup Craig LS all won three in a row junan has won three in a row nobody has done it four
Times in a row it would be unique Mount Panorama BST history be three in a row for EMG as well of course and he two he’s two core drivers for sun energy one it would be an enormous feed and Kenny habal Peter Brock was his Idol growing
Up he owns one of Brock’s old race cars so that would be an enormous accomplishment but what about Porsche what about the job these guys have done today they’ve had penalties through pit Lane they’ve had all sorts of drama they’ve worked their way through the field and ultimately it comes down to
The guy that delivered Porsche their first ever BST Victory Porsche had never won anything here never won a major Juro it was the only box they had to tick in their storyed history and this guy did it in 2019 and now he finds himself in a
Position to do it again and as I said when we were talking to Marty in the pit Lane it it wasn’t the perfect Manti run that we get used to there have been mistakes made but they’ve battled through it they’ve adapted and they’ve found the pace
P when they have needed it and now we got to War these are the Beautiful Blue Mountains you pass by this very location the three sisters just outside of Kumba there’s a cool old racetrack there too by the way Catalina Park you should check that out waterfalls scenic walks just about everything some great coffee shops just tucked away in the little
Villages as you cross the Blue Mountains by Bells line or the Great Western Highway it leads you to this direction where we are set for a massive Showdown once again baist has delivered us something incredibly special and at the front of the field two of arguably the
Best GT drivers in in the world he can make an argument for both of them Matt Campbell A young Aussie who’s forged a career overseas and is’s now driving for Porsche and Roger Pensky and jul gonan who’s won them all but calls this place his most special Racetrack and stands on
The edge of batis History potentially potentially winning four endurance races in a row there are 30 minutes to go in the rep Co B’s 12h hour it’s all to play for with Porsche Mercedes BMW and Audi fighting it out for a win in Australia’s International inur and look at the talent behind them
As well Jackson Evans one of the up and comers Max Maran Chris haza in the Audi then Cameron mors Micky Grenier angle Maro Angel as well Jimmy wink up still leading the pro and category ahead of Ross gun and alyso pello Here Comes theg drafting up Mountain straight that big
Front engine car with loads of talk is he close enough I don’t think he is he’ll show the headlights to Matt Campbell try and just disrupt the concentration of the young queenslander it’s not worked and now the Porsche will the Porsche make its Advantage Tail as
It heads over the top the Porsche is about 8T wide the racing Line’s about 10 ft wide that’s it at the moment the key passing opportunity if you put a couple of Wheels out you’re going to be in trouble it’s still very very damp off the racing line so Matt Campbell
Protected slightly from that but you will never roll out go on for making an attempt at this one there’s the Phantom Global Porsche sitting in third Jackson Evans housemate of Matt Campell they grew up together they came out of the maay school of Porsche racing up in Queensland the young kiwi has driven
Superbly today with that brand new team to mount Panorama and then BMW how about them and even if Jackson Evans Can’t Get By ju goonan and challenge for the lead he might actually be doing his Porche teammate and they’re not in the same team but they’re all Porsche at the end
Of the day he might be doing them as solid here by holding Max Maran in that BMW which is quick in a straight line it likes the cooler temperatures but at the moment there’s a gap beginning to form go t between the leader and this battle
For second third and fourth one and a half seconds is the gap between Matt Campbell and jul Gan as they left Forest elbow at the end of the second sector so Campbell had a Blinder restart lap here on cold to has absolutely dropped ju stewards have imposed pit Lane
Penalties cast 10 and 25 breach and safety car procedure failed to proceed through pit Lane so they’re deep in the field talk about La cars didn’t come through the lane as required late in the race that won’t affect what’s going on at the front of the field Matt Campbell at 2062 junan a
2077 so 1 and 1/2 seconds up the road goes Matt Campbell and we teas that it might take the Porsche l two to bring his tires in because it’s taken longer than most to get the tire up to temperature but no one told M Campbell that story he’s
Gone yeah he’s pulled away he’s nailed in fact all of the Porsche drivers uh when they’ve been leading the races on restarts and absolutely nailed the I don’t think we’ve seen an over down into Hell’s Corner or indeed for the lead even up into turn two a been so everybody’s been practicing their
Restarts and the Campbell is absolutely on a tear at the moment this this could be winning the motor race right here another two10 in the first sector for Matt Campbell so he continues to build that Gap first to second not going to win it right here now but you’re going to certainly make
It easier on yourself the more Gap you have should you come across lap traffic the more cautious you can be if you need it going fast now buys you luxury later the back of this VI cam Waters just tacking on to the back of Chris harer in that
Orange Audi he’s still in this he really good in the mixed conditions they have played a Blinder today I think they’re probably punched above where the expectation was for Scott Taylor Motorsport huge performance and then MC grer is still in this as well for National Storage just behind seven car
Still on the lead here’s the BMW looked out for a moment on Jackson Evans drops back into line they all Clos on junon as they come down to the chase the Porsche is so good on the breaks at the chase we marveled about that in qualifying yesterday that was an example from
Jackson Evans again here in the final Corner a pit Lane penalty to car 27 for a safety car breach oh that’s big that’s second in in the prime category Ros gun I I presume that was speeding in pit Lane and they had to cut through the p l
No I think there was a lapped car ah so weaving we’re hearing so the Australian rule that we spent so much time training the International Drivers do not weave when the lights go out on the safety car has caught rosan out and he’s 3/10 of a second away from Jamie windup with that
Ailing arrow on the front of the car absolutely so in come in through the lane comes the 47 so that is not Ros gun the fur Brothers Super barg Mercedes David Russell behind the wheel third in the silver Class A lap back from Luke who’s second the lambo couple clear in
That E Class battle so over to you alesio picarello for Mantia could they do the double he’s only one and a half seconds behind wing cup and we said that wing cup has some drama going on with the front splitter they put more race tape on it but I don’t think that’s
Going to fix it no so has been seriously impressive this weekend that 911 car has been fighting back talk about snakes and ladders that car has snakes and ladders today and J du would have wanted that XM BMW safety car to be out for a long time if he
Could have stretched that I’m sure he would have probably thought about throwing some Dey out the side of the car to to the old NASCAR trick he’s not Beyond a bit bit of cheekiness like that the other question I’ve got and because I’ve run out of space on my notepad from
The tally how many drive-through penalties has car 130 had today yeah 512 it’s been a lot um they’re still they’re still on the lead lap they’re 20 seconds behind the lead they’re quite a big chunk behind this bleeding group of cars but Maro angle there now not expecting
Miracles but if they finish there that’ll be eight cars on the lead lap at the end of the race which has never happened before the previous record was seven so it shows you how competitive this field has been even though that team has had such a rotten day and that
Is a change for position in the boyel Watchers Pro Am class the Porsche gets to the front so the walking wounded Mercedes AMG SLI back to second with Jamie winup and picarello gets himself dett outright and what will be the class lead When Ross gun has to serve a pit
LAN penalty gun still has not come to the Lane so he’s stretching out that three laps before he must take it you get La of argument time well they can argue all you want but once they give you the flag I haven’t seen them change their mind in the past it’s it’s not
Something you can really argue that there’s there’s degrees of certain things you can get called a penalty on where it’s a subjective decision but you’re either weaving or you’re not weaving you know it’s but what he’s trying to do is give himself the best opportunity and pull
Away as much as he can once he’s got a little bit of clear track ahead of him y absolutely trying to get up the road a little bit hoping that there might be another safety car to catch the train and get back on it but this high speed
Freight train snakes its way down the mountain to Forest elbow gan’s found a bit of time in the last lap or so as he now the tire sort of normalizes for goonan so almost the opposite from what we expected where the Porsche would take a lap or two to get up the temperature
It’s been on taking a lap or two just on the previous lap took a little bit of time back out of Matt Campbell I it just reminds you that the repore fastest lap is in the hands of the 13 Porsche which Jackson Evans is behind a two or 29 in
The race so there is Pace in that Porsche in particular that the only car in the twos today yes it is 58 that cool Cris morning air when it was properly flat out 49 for the lead of 52 goonan 53 Evans 54 nice bit of numerology there for
Martin so Mar much the second third and fourth that Porsche g g in the final seor was 410 quicker than sh gonan so breaking for the chase breaking for Mur corner he can’t use that performance though while gan’s ahead of him so he he he’s not been able to chase down Matt Campbell
I think there was a bit of traffic pollution on that last lap in the last sector for second third fourth and fifth so we’ll keep an eye on that one teams the stewards have opposed to PLP to car 10 for crossing the pit entry BL line the Invitational class car the holline
Car just seen the GT4 leader in the P out of christu L stop there We are all the way to the check flag at Mount Panorama the margin 2.5 seconds Porsche to Mercedes AMG the two drivers that have dominated this race since 2019 that Jed it out for the win last year are going at it again and they’re already back into the 2 minute and 4
Second lap times as we fight towards the end and four manufacturers represented in the top five and ba remains one of the most open races from a Balan of performance between all the different GT3 Brands if that’s not exciting for the brands that aren’t here this year
And the ones that are coming like Ford and Chevrolet and hopefully McLaren and all the others well this is the place where you can come and know that you’re going to have a shot Campbell negotiating some traffic there’s a bit of a story in the Invitational class as well which has
Been really tough today because at the moment just going out of the pit Lane on an out laap to the checked flag Adam Hargraves is leading the class in the number 20 T2 racing local sech car that was the car that was backed into the wall early in the weekend and had to
Borrow some panels from a car from another category that was racing here and the rear clip as well so that’s a bit of a ragster Rich’s story we always get them here at the Repco back as 12 hour there’ll be plenty of colum inches written about this
One previous lap jul gunan took 8/10 of a second out of Matt Campbell Campbell came across a bit of lap traffic in an awkward spot in the final sector and gunan got the rubber the green this time around with a much cleaner run through the lap traffic so come to the end of
The first sector on this next lap what’s the difference between the two it’s Mt Campbell 50.8 versus Goan 510 so Campbell has the speed in the car that’s the luxury of a gap when you come to the lap traffic you can be a little bit more cautious if you need
To take a bit of the intensity out of the situation spare a thought for Lauren vantor as well the Belgian driver this is his seventh attempt at winning this race he was runner up gear in 2015 with Audi doing all kinds of insane things at
The end of that race trying to grab a car that really didn’t want to be there and Wrangle it towards the podium including a rather large send around the outside of the final corner on the final lap of the race to get himself onto the podium he’s been trying to win this race
For a long time he’s got former Pole Position winner as well Jed J good is bringing that AMG to life here and he’s just trimming again last time around that lead it’s down to just on two seconds took a 8/10 of a second last time around with just under 18 minutes
To go M he’s got to keep his foot in because he’s he’s got a pack of hungry hounds behind him Jackson Evans Max Maran Chris harza are all there and that’s four very very accomplished and talented drivers for two final spots on the box one thing we’ve been talking
About all weekend is that near complete inability of goonan just doesn’t make a mistake so he’s so good Under Pressure he will wether whatever storm Jackson Evans can throw at him in that battle for second place but he’s got to be eyes forward and find a way to pick that 2.5 second
Margin back to the race leader time to remind everybody Rich when this race ends but the countdown is the end so 60 minutes plus one lap so we’re counting down to the final lap of the race Race So 1743 local time 5:43 p.m. local time plus one lap is the
Finish La is 2 minutes and that gets us to the full 12 hours lap traffic oh Jackson opens up the inside of FY as is Maxim Martin so now goonan has to follow the GT4 McLaren down the hill single Lane through here so this is killing
Gonan and Jackson Evans has got right to the rear bumper and now gonan does he get around no he doesn’t so he continues and he can’t go too wide remember it’s a single Lane because it’s wet down there so unan cautious smart but now that’s closed him right up look at cam Waters
He’s in the game right behind Christopher H so second through six nose to tail and seventh with M ginier as well so now goon’s trying to shake the draft of Jackson Evans we know the Porsches are super late on the breaks here at the chase what about Maxim
Martin we know that thing straight in the fast in a straight line do they get it all through there yes they do so now it’s six top quality drivers in GT3 cars four two spots on the box but that’s six seconds to the race lead that one moment
4 seconds moment in the middle has cost Jon on a huge chunk of time MC graner was attacking camam Mor down at Murray’s corner and Chris haza looking at Maxim Martin now in in the battle for fourth and fifth position this is still very much all up for grabs but if that if
That can happen in the favor of the leader that could just as easily happen to bring this all back together the advantage that Matt Campbell has is he hasn’t got somebody breathing down his neck and therefore he can probably take different lines it’s a really difficult compromise to have to have when youil
Gan trying to attack and lap the car but also trying to make sure that Jackson Evans sitting in behind him doesn’t see a crack opening in his front door that he can he can stick his foot through J G effectively needs to be crossy one eye
Out the wind screen and one eye on the rear Vision mirror yeah and deal with the lap traffic at the same time so you’re right and we spoke about the Gap that Matt Campbell opened early and that safety car restart and that’s what that does it gives you that luxury of not
Having to race the other car you just deal with the lap traffic so now Campbell coming up on David Russell in the number 47 AMG Mercedes he’s just full focus is just get past this car not have to worry about getting attacked from behind because that Gap that he has
Now 6.6 seconds over Gan and Gan his full attention now is in the rear Vision mirror yeah Russ has made the r well done thanks brother very generous yeah and that’s good sportsmanship I know they playing for different manufacturers if you will um I I should prob answer to
This question gentlemen gon ever been a core driver in the great race not not yet frankly Madness that he had not yet had that opportunity yeah I was I was thinking that myself and when I was talking to him last week at the Alpine uh 424 launch where he’s the reserve
Driver this year thinking to myself I can’t I can’t think of him being there he’s rather good Round Here bra young guy that go places going on again that previous lap at the CH Jackson Evans was so strong on the break Gan gets held up out of forest
Elbow he needs to defend and defend for his life when they get through the Kink down into the chase Jackson Evans will be down the inside in a halfing under 13 minutes to go and the good news for our leader is the next bit of traffic that
He’s got to get by is quite a long way ahead he’s going to have at least to the end of this lap and probably a little longer before he catches the back of the and it’s not a whole clump of cars just a single car and then a gap then another
Single car what you don’t want to come on is a a battle for position where guys are fighting for a lead of a class and not reasonably not necessarily looking in their mirrors have to get a stress test as well on Yin who’ll be watching on from the Manti EMA garage because
He’s done a really big job today in car 911 and they’re leading the Pro Am class they’re ninth outright and they’ve got Jamie wiup 13 seconds behind them so slightly more comfortable margin for the second of them anti-ars but they are on potentially to claim both of the main classes in this
Race Jimmy win driving mul in an injured Mercedes dble eight but Ross gun taking three seconds a lap out out of him and the gaps down to 10 seconds now I don’t think rosun could get back to alesio picarello but there’s a second place on here for heart racing and they’ll be
Cursing that final penalty that they had for waving coming back to the green on the last safety car restart how much ground that portion takes out of the Mercedes under break for the chase but the BMW noticebly closer This Time by Valentino Rossy was watching on nervously with his teammate
Rapael martiello who Swit Brands it’s normally Lelo we’re talking about in these circumstances he’s been in this fight before now he has to watch from the BMW bunker they Salvage a Podium out of what’s been a day of enormous promise for wrt there’s such commitment out there at the
Moment riding the curves and the curvs hold the dampness GTH as well so they’re they’re really now they’re leaving nothing on the table no is Max attack full send we hear from Lane quite a bit these days where certainly the front Bunch are leaving no stone unturned previous lap round Matt
Campbell was a 51 jul Gan a 4-1 so the traffic continuing to influence the lap time of our lead cars but Campbell enjoys a 5 and 1/2 second Gap over goonan in second that was we’re on board with grineer who was chasing down cam Waters that was the battle for sixth and
Seventh cams just dropped off the back of Chris Hara in the Audi that’s another incredible story of the day remember they went the same route that sun energy one have gone with putting a bronze driver in that car and so two of those combinations going to be in the top five
At this point anyway with Chris harza having done a huge job and Kelvin vandelinda who’s longed to get a big result result at Mount Panorama in all of his visits to this place the Audi still grimly hanging on it’s one of the older cars now relative to some of the
New Machinery around it but with people like that behind the wheel it’s still very very effective and Liam talber did do an outstanding job in his stint earlier on today serviceable I would say more than serviceable yeah Audi Sport customer racing boss Chris Frank at the mountain this weekend in today
Uh one day finally yeah he he I think there was some travel issues there to be honest but Chris likes to be where the customers are and there’s plenty of customers down here in Australia 2045 Matt Campbell 2044 J gon 2040 Jackson Evans hello 2041 Maxim Martin 2040 Christopher har
So that times starting to get a little spicy so that’s the hardest Porsche has had to get its tires switched on in the whole race so far so Matt went really hard really early the Porsche has been a skill of it today an attribute of it today has been bringing them in gently
Will that hurt them late in this race will that offer any pain for Matt as he gets towards the end of the race and I’m still keeping an eye on what’s going on in the proam category alesio picarello now seconds to the good on jamy winup the 911 the Shell Helix colored the
Porsche well up the road but jamy winup is going to see the headlight shortly of the Mercedes AMG the number 27 Ros gun now under well I was going to say under six seconds I might as well say five now 5.2 seconds he’s taking great lumps of time out of that wounded
AMG seven and a half to go gentlemen 10 tense as a racing driver I this is a tense I’ve seen G all day because if you’re in the leate car now all you want to do is for that to know there’s one lap to go you’re hearing all sorts of
Nonsense you’ve got to just concentrate and keep it going haven’t it a this is this is what you spend all day playing chess for to go checkmate at the end of the day so this is what it’s all about Jackson Evans have a go with that move
There was not a door to walk through but Jackson Evans PRI it open here comes the B W Maxim Martin on the outside and what can Chris harer do this is for Martin look how deep he win it won’t work it won’t pay off but it might open the door
For the AUD he’s got a wheel up the inside of Jackson Evans they’re going to war down towards turn one goon on safe for a moment and Chris haza gets himself up potentially to the podium I did think that 22 AI was still in with his shot I
Think goonan helped him out there actually cuz he slightly blocked Jackson as he was coming into Mur for the final time the pors the Porsche is running skinny we know it’s quicker in the straight line but the Audi’s got the preferred line into visit New southw
Griffin bed and Chris haza on the third step of the podium for the number 22 Audi all right I am locked on the timing screen for Chris Haron sector time across the top of the mountain this lap be epic cuz he is going to run and run hard
This is eight eight visit to mount Panorama Chris’s been desperately unlucky little bit of contact Jackson Evans to the rear of sh gonon but it fired the sun energy one car out well Maxi Martin just went well I got to commit to this somehow and go around the
Outside they were on the podium for a second his teammate was on the podium for a second didn’t didn’t quite PIR off I think Shi gunan locked up there guard as he was coming into the chase I’m not sure but we’ve been saying all week Martin just absolutely centered around
The outside hope for the best Jackson Evans centered down the inside hope for the best and Christopher har picked both their pockets so it was ecstatic in the garage of BMW for a second or so then disbelief afterwards as Martin drops back to fit’s the situational awareness
From Chris haser though put his car in exactly the right position elbows out made sure he’s stuck and then again the positioning on the run up the hill into Griffin’s Ben was perfect and got that car into third place could they be on the podium in an Audi R8 that would be
An enormous result for this team balance of performance sees Porsche from Mercedes from Audi from Porsche from BMW in the top five places good spread of the manufacturers here go on with a little bit of breathing space this time around under five minutes to go every year every year this place does something
Utterly ridiculous to us a show there’s a new second place now in the pram rosun has dispatched jery winup with that wounded arrow on the front of his AMG 27 1 half seconds behind alesio picarello he’s taking time out of alesio but there’s not enough time left for him to
Get back that was a very very costly mistake weaving behind the safety guard with the lights out the D thing about that was he had to come down the pit Lane anyway so there was really no need to be doing that it’s one you file in
The memory bank for 12 months when you come back and try and go one or two spots better heart of RAC and have put up a good fight three rookie drivers here and with SPS a really well thrilled team I think if I’d offered them second
Place at the start of the week they might have said yes they class thank you very much yeah but they’ll have wanted a little bit more to get greedy into the race there they are and there is the batter and off yeah it’s through S Jamie win cups AMG Mercedes sounding
More like a Massy Ferguson tractor 11 front split of flaps away 111 last time the worting is he’s the same principle now he pays the bill to fix it for the next round I think it happened when he was driving the car though he’s inherit think that matters so second go on third
Haa who was 3/10 quicker across the top of the hill than the Mercedes AMG playing to the AUD of strengths less than a second between them Jackson Evans not out of this yet either and Maxi Martin will do anything he can to try and wrestle the BMW further forward well
Wrt last year finished within 60 seconds of the winner this year right now they’re within 8 Seconds of the lead at the end of the race so man I hope they come back for a third straight year with those BMWs because they have been a force to be reckoned with
Today and someone’s lit a fire under the granier Triple Eight car check that out 23.9 on that last lap 1.5 seconds quicker than the leader and that already exciting fight for second and third could have another car with 2 minutes to go it’s a really good point Chad I saw
That one too ginier 2039 he’s come alive whilst Jackson Evans and Maxim Martin fighting over fourth and fifth this car on screen right now fastest car on track Last Time by by a margin so grer doing everything he can to get himself in the game under two minutes now
Gentlemen under two minutes and the Gap is 5 Seconds at the head of the field chill kunam within touching distance this is tantalizing he’s not I don’t think he’s going to get back to unless itward 4 and a half now bit of traffic to go the
Wrong way traffic has played such a part here today we saw it exceptionally clean running in the early part of the week down at manai e and it’s gr of course it’s G it has to be G there is some lap traffic up the road but only two cars that are separated so
They’re not L A Stern so that’s good news name Matt Campell he’s can deal them one by one he’s going to get to them at the right part of the tra lap traffic anyway between here and turn two 4.2 Seconds J goon on you know he
Will drive car 75 within an inch of its life if there is even a sniff at the end of this one 53 for Matt Campbell 37 for jel gunan 38 for Christopher Hara who’s just done the personal best for that car in the last sector wow so Mt Campbell’s
Enjoying a handy buffer he’s lucky he’s got it I mean I think he is Mak sure he’s massaging the car to the end he’s making sure that there are no mistakes to be had you said it g take the advantage when you’ve got it you never
Know when you might need a second here or three qus of a second down we’ve seen this race come down to meters in the past look at the clock tick tick tick 3 seconds 2 seconds and one so it rolls down to zero which means it should be this lap and one
More oh traffic at the wor traff Park wow that could have been big if he’d not gone through there it’s cost him some time but not a whole heap of time Goan there’s potential that goonan will get it in this part of track yes is coming
Down the hill which is much more a on Lane Raceway than it is at Reed and mcfam Parks so 2.6 seconds go on he’s got 9 km 9 km to try and give Kenny three in a row to try and give Luca three in a row and go four up and
Create B this history but this young man out in front he celebrated his 29th birthday yesterday he won the Daytona 24hour just a couple of weeks ago he’s one of the great success stories of the Australian Motorsport in the Porche pyramid here to go overseas and become a
Factory driver at the very highest level of sports car racing around the world and Mante EMA racing what about that story they’re 6ks away from the BST win one lap remaining in the Repco BST attentional teams the Le has commenced the last lap well well well what an up and down
Day it has been for a number of the class leaders and up and down week it’s not been by any stretch of the imagination gentlemen a pristine Manti performance there’s been mistakes made but they have reacted and they have had the key element to any mot race be it a Sprint
Or endurance they’ve had speed they’ve had the pace and all three drivers Lawrence V aan gven who has done the yman part of the work by far the most laps and Matt Campbell brought in as the closer you are going to have dramas in a 12-hour race doesn’t matter where it is doesn’t
Matter what sort of driving lineup you have it’s how you recover from those dramas and 912 car that leads outright and the 911 car that leads the proam race have had their fair share of Dramas and man em have recovered beautifully they’ve had fast race cars but they’ve
Got themselves in a position to use those fast race cars and no one can deny that this is a very very special result for yeah today the fastest car will win the race if he can negotiate the final sector this story incredible Lawrence vanor has tried his heart out for years
In cars that weren’t quite possibly there to win and the Belgian driver who’s been a superstar at this place one of our favorite Internationals has done the job andan can Goen has been remarkable but the story is around Matt Campbell who’s going to win this one
Again he’s just got the run down to muray for the final time J goonan is within sight of history but he won’t make it it’s Porsche a manai EMA who win the rep c b 12 hours in 2024 and Matt Campell does it again he
Did it before the Big Run of sun energy one and he breaks the streak and breaks their hearts what a run and baist has delivered again what a defense for sun energy 1 what a defense he can’t win it finish second they went Within 2.6 seconds of doing it again and Manti EMA
Will do the double Pro and outright win and the boy Cell Pro Am class this is a huge result for this team yasa shikin is going to win at Mount Panorama and they were in the they were a lap down in the kitty litter at the
Top of the mountain so they didn’t have a perfect here that wasn’t their fault in all honesty so that’s a great comeback drive as well remarkable stuff Lawrence V finally how does it feel to be a winner at BST I always needs a bit of time to sink in but yeah
Pretty amazing pretty amazing group of people I’ve been waiting for this and dreaming of this one for for a while and it’s uh it’s there so I’m happy congratulations thank you very much silver class coming through to a quite brilliant finish they’ve just gone round like clock word the Invitational class
With bits falling off the car in front of it as they come down it’s the IRC car that was hard into the wall with the driver who was in the car who was hard into the wall earlier in the week this is another great comeback story krzy
Incredible one of the overnight B Repair jobs to Victory the the B history book’s full of that story that’s incredible and Mark Griffith’s little team that could in the Mercedes AMG winning GT4 but Matt Campbell he was the hero for Porsche in 2019 he’s the hero for Porsche again in
2024 and he wins by 2.6 seconds was gonan who streak finishes at a mere three in a row there’s only six drivers in the history of this place that have done it Shay again Matt Campbell winner at bathur how special is this place yeah I mean that feels awesome obviously
Second win uh you know tough say the the weather everything like that and and hats off to everyone at EMA ment racing I mean we’re always running at the front and it wasn’t easy with to mix conditions but you know to Larry and and iin they did a fantastic job we kept it
Off the walls and uh yeah phenomenal you know the second win and uh yeah it’s unreal nothing but qualifying labs for that last in yeah absolutely I mean it was a little bit of uh risk management as well uh obviously there was quite a lot of water still offline in places so
Just making sure I don’t do any mistakes and and really trying to manage the Gap a little bit as well so team was sort of keeping me up to date and uh yeah we we got there in the end two big races this year two big wins congrats keep it going
Yeah absolutely thank you great start of the year I think it was sh who first spoke to Matt as well after winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona that’s his mom and TC his aunt they have been along every step of this journey it’s his girlfriend as
Well what a really cool moment this is waiting for his teammates to come and join the celebration and G one of the most famous brands in global GT Racing finally get Aus Victory and the thousand watt smile of Matt Campbell what a couple of weeks first time overall winner and another
All xat a couple of weeks ago and now second time here on the mountain in a real dog fight let’s be honest yeah yes they’ve had a good car but as we’ve mentioned it was by no means a perfect run and they had to out Fox and out
Smart some strategy from the 75 C energy one team teammates are all together down there and uh that’s the start of a big party right there this evening well you ride the roller coaster with these guys and for lawren VOR he’s tried his heart out so many times to be delivered of
Victory an incredible result how about third place Christopher haer I mean if it wasn’t for the drives of the two cars in front that’s Drive of the day for mine at the ends who gets a Podium with Kelvin vandelinda and Liam talber enormous result for AI Jackson Evans and
Phantom Global fourth that’s a good R Maxi Martin fifth in the end in 46 with Valentino Rossy and Rafa martiello yeah I heard you call the wall racing Lambo across the line silver class winners that’s going to be a big party tonight massive that’ll be at Grant
Dan’s house I think just around the corner one of ba finest is going to win a ba class and he will be over the moon with that and these are the class winners Adam Christo so Prestige U Mike Rao team got home in the N GT4 and the
Class that no one wanted to win today in the end T2 racing and local search got there and G on top at Mount Panorama this will be a famous photo in the Porsche archives for years and years to come that first win was special backing it up with the Manti brand attached with
All the cache in endurance racing that it has Thomas L head of Porsche Motorsport here and in their garage in their Corner as well was arguing the toss with the officials over the uh the blown drive through and they’ve managed Gander said it it’s about how you react
It’s not about making the mistakes it’s how you react how you reset how you throw away the plan that you were working on open another spreadsheet and just go for it some great photographs going to be going around the world as always there are so many stories to pull out of this
275 lap so well short of the distance record in fact it’ll be one of the shorter GT3 races held here a smidge over 1700 km of r racing in at times what were really challenging weather conditions throughout the middle Stander of the race it’s hard to believe they
Got to threes at the end of that in that shootout towards the flag record crowds has been in attendance it’s been an absolute cracker and once again the run to the checked flag here has given us all of the excitement we could even Mother Nature couldn’t dampen the
Spirits here at the rep c paath is 12 hours for 2024 last three races here winning margins 8.7 seconds 0.9 and 2.6 so the last three races decided by a combined margin of about 11 seconds which is just remarkable when you think about everything that you have to go
Through to finish this race eight cars finished on the lead lap that’s a record for this race shows you the depth of competition in that field and the car that finished in eighth position was in the end Maro Engle Triple Two cam orders Tom Randle Craig
LS a really strong finish in the top eight in this race that’s huge and then Triple Eight MC grer with huge Pace at the end of the race there ends up in sixth position for the National Storage team BMW just in front and the proam winners just as a reminder Manti EMA get
Both the outright and the proam class wins with picarello King who won here in Carrera Cup in October last year and yasa shahin who’s a double GT World Challenge Champion I’d love to see where this fits in his CV from a racing driver point of view because it it will be
Right up there for yes how about Matt Campbell then um his GT duties aren’t finished this year um I’ll have to check to see and speak to him to see if nurburg ring 24 is on his list overall win at Daytona overall win at B
12 well what a trifecta that would be I I’m not sure that double that I’ve just mentioned has been done before I’ll have to look back let’s go and celebrate this one Chad nlon has the Repco ba 12-hour Podium yeah it’s time to celebrate here at Mount Panorama the 2024 Repco ba 12h
Hour outright Podium we’ll start with our third place team the wash team MPC and our drivers Liam Talbert Christopher Hara and Kelvin velinda with our third place trophies Here Comes Shane Rus from the Repco BS 12 [Applause] hour and here comes Abby Haye series manager with our InterContinental GT challenge medals
Let’s go with our second place team here today which is sun energy One racing Kenny habul Drew gunan and Luca stalls here com series manager Abby hay with our InterContinental GT challenge medals and with the trophies for second place B mayor Jess Jennings and now baist it’s time to make plenty of noise for your winning team Mante emema and your drivers a hunen Goen Laura vantor and Matt Campbell R from Repco with the trophies and Kristoff hop from bzel with the [Applause] Watchers there are your nine drivers from the
Repco Baus 12 hour and here come the boosel Watchers thanks to our terrific Partners it is now time to celebrate here at Mount Panorama [Applause] well goth Tander let’s get out here and celebrate with the drivers as we say farewell to everybody on what’s been an amazing 2024 rep COA 12 it’s been a while since he stood out here mate oh it’s a fantastic result what a result for Porsche Matt Campbell delivered in
That last intint and for them to win the proam class as well is a big result for Porsche Kenny ball he’s the mayor of B she doing a shoy over there great great atmosphere out here incredible we’re going to have to get off this Podium before we accidentally find ourselves
Drinking out of Kenny hible shoe and we’re going to continue the fun next week with the Thrifty BS 500 all part of Superfest go and sign up to superview for international viewers if you need another baist fix next week this has been an incredible race once again farewell baist it’s been great
Fun there’s a personality and an atmosphere to this race that is unrivaled anywhere in the World oh big one with the BMW across the cutting a got this oh BMW it’s going to B he keep it off the track yeah it’s Gone a EMA to win the rec 12 2024
20 Comments
What an amazing race this was! Seconds between the leaders all throughout. Well done Manthey !
Loved this race. Good job to everyone!
15:15 Rossi's mistake that potentially costed them the podium
25:00 Rain is already here
1:58:30 That was the moment where Team 46 lost the chance to get the podium….and also, heavy rain
5:23:23 Epic fail by the Vortex
6:03:45 Team 46 was back to get the podium but lost the battle and dropped to P5 🙁
Congrats to all.
If you are hungry you can eat a delicious Bockwurst during the 12H of Bathurst 🙂
An epic racetrack.
😃
what happened with car 130? safety cars ruined their strategy?
Need to use Code60 to reduce the safety car use as that just forces false competition by compressing the field and punishing the good teams by wiping out their hard earned time advantage.
Thank You so much "Bathurst 12 Hour" channel for bringing us this race. I look forward to Mt Panorama 12 Hour every year. Your team ROCKS!!!
To the commentator… it’s dove… not dived…
It's a shame car 46 was a bit unlucky at that turn and dropped to 5th. Good race to all drivers though, and congrats to the winning team!
Fantastic glad I can finally get to watch this
Great race. Excellent coverage as always, thanks for putting on YT 🙂 Roll on the 1000 😀
Hell of a race brilliant well done Porsche
Vielen Dank! 🎉
What does the green dot next to their name mean??
Matt Campbell and that manthey team good fuckin job. Love seeing him whoopin all around the world right now
,912 for the win.
How was possible that the Porsche just ran with 2" per lap faster compared to all other pro cars.