Bathurst 12 Hour time

The Bathurst 12 Hour Race is on again this weekend, looks like they’ll be 47 entries split into eight classes, sadly no entries appear to have been received for the MINI Challenge class again.

Outright victory looks like it’ll again be a battle of the Evos, with the Shelby Mustang looking like the dark horse if it can make the distance (pun intended).

I was lucky enough to go to the race last year and had a great time: no crowds, open and largely unrestricted access to the pits, great weather. Due to number of things happening right now, I’m not going to make it this year, though I’ll be following along with the live stream when I can on Sunday.

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Bathurst 12 Hour

On a whim, I went for an early drive Sunday morning, rising at four and heading out of the city and across the mountains to Bathurst to watch the annual twelve hour race for production cars, aka the Bathurst 12 Hour. Had a brilliant run across the Bells Line of Road though light rain, very thick fog and zero traffic, arriving at the track just after the start.

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