Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour: How to Spend Your Saturday
Guys, gals, pets, I’ve found how you will be spending your Saturday afternoon. You, like me, will be watching the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 hour race. Why? Because where, outside of Forza or Gran Turismo, will you see Fiat 500 Abarths pairing off against SLS AMG GT3s? Focus Global Touring Cars (tube chassis, V8 powered, lots of awesome) hunting down a Ginetta G50? Exactly.
There are six classes:
Class A is comprised of current GT3 spec cars. AF Corse (essentially Ferrari’s sports car team) will be challenging last year’s winner Erebus Motorsports and their pair of SLS AMG GT3s for the class win.
Class B is ten 911 GT3 Cup cars ganging up on two R8s and two Lamborghini Gallardos. This class has the best team name running in it: Racing Incident, which is running a Gallardo LP520.
Class C is three GT4 class cars: a Ginetta G50, a Lotus Exige Cup R and an Exige S. Tiny? Yes. Awesome? The Ginetta handles that, and then some.
Class D is 3001cc engines and up, and resembles something you’d see at a track day… in Europe: two SEAT Leon Supercopas, an E46 M3 GTR, an E92 M3, a Daytona Sportscar Coupe (an Australian Shelby Daytona Coupe), and a WRX STi thrown in for good measure. This will be a fun one to watch.
Class E is full of Fiat 500 Abarth’s run by the same team. Three adorable little Fiats will try to avoid being killed by everything else on track. This will be the most adorable class to watch.
Class I is the afore mentioned Global Touring Car spec Focuses… Foci… Focus? Whatever. It’s a lot like Class E, except more fearsome than adorable.
The Race starts in a little less than twenty-four hours from now (at the time this was being written) and you can/will watch the live stream on the race’s website, which features commentary from Radio Le Mans.
UPDATE 1:51PM MST: HQ Holdens race happening for the next hour http://www.bathurst12hour.com.au/live/ Old Holdens!
Words and photo by Michael Chandler
