2018 Bathurst 12 Hour

The 2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race for GT and touring car classes, GT3 and GT4 cars was staged on the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia 4 February 2018. The 16th running of the Bathurst 12 Hour constituted the opening round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge Series. As per the previous year,[1 ] the winners of the race were awarded the Australian Tourist Trophy.[2 ]

The event was declared 10 minutes before the finish of the event after a 3 car incident, involving the #95 Eastgate Engineering MARC Focus, the #69 Supabarn Audi R8 LMS and the #19 Daimler Trucks Brisbane Mercedes-AMG GT3, marking the first time in the Bathurst 12 Hour history that the race was declared before the time cut-off.[3 ]

51 cars were entered and 50 cars started, with one entry withdrawn following a crash in practice.

Class structure
Cars competed in the following four classes.
 * Class A – GT3 Outright
 * Class APP (GT3 Pro) – for driver combinations with no unseeded drivers.
 * Class APA (GT3 Pro-Am) – for driver combinations including one unseeded driver.
 * Class AAM (GT3 Am) – for driver combinations including two or three unseeded drivers.
 * Class B – GT3 Cup Cars
 * Class C – GT4
 * Class I – Invitational

Official results
Bold denotes category winner. ^1 – Daniel Gaunt was added to the Grove Motorsport entry during the race following the illness of Brenton Grove and the retirement of the #3 Audi in which he was scheduled to drive[5 ]

^2 – The #6 Wall Racing entry switched from a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 GT3 to a Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX following an engine failure during Saturday practice.[6 ]

^3 – Following an incident in Saturday practice, the #94 MARC Cars Australia car was withdrawn and replaced with the team’s spare car and renumbered #33
 * Race time of winning car: 11:38:04.133
 * Fastest race lap: 2:01.9575 – Chaz Mostert on lap 7