2015 Bathurst 12 Hour



The 2015 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour was an endurance race for a variety of GT and touring car classes, including: GT3 cars, GT4 cars and Group 3E Series Production Cars. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia on 8 February 2015, was the thirteenth running of the Bathurst 12 Hour.

53 cars were entered for the race and 50 cars started the race, with two entries withdrawn following crashes in practice and the other due to drivers being injured in a road accident prior to the event. Katsumasa Chiyo, Wolfgang Reip and Florian Strauss won the event driving a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3. Reip and Strauss had both come through the GT Academy programme.

Class structureEdit
Cars competed in the following five classes.[5]
 * Class A – GT3 Outright
 * Class AP – GT3 Pro-Am, for driver combinations including one unseeded driver.
 * Class AA – GT3 Am, for driver combinations including two or three unseeded drivers.
 * Class B – GT3 Cup Cars
 * Class C – GT4
 * Class D – Invitational (Production)
 * Class I – Invitational (Non Production)

Official results

 * Note: Class winners are shown in bold.
 * Race time of winning car: 12:00:11.0280
 * Fastest race lap: 2:03.3091 – Markus Winkelhock