{"id":15406,"date":"2024-02-19T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:30:14","slug":"a-big-weekend-at-bathurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/a-big-weekend-at-bathurst\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Weekend At Bathurst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a big weekend of racing that happened at Bathurst.&nbsp; The 2024 Repco Bathurst 12 Hour race proved to be an eventful and exciting race, and it was a dominant performance from Matt Campbell, Ayhancan Guven, and Laurens Vanthoor who all drove faultlessly to take out the win in their yellow Manthey&nbsp;EMA Porsche race car, number 912.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race was fraught with changeable weather throughout the day, meaning that a skilful pit crew needed to remain on the ball for selecting the right tyre for the driving conditions. &nbsp;There were numerous cars involved in crashes with or without other race cars, and against barriers that forced the teams out of the race.&nbsp; At multiple stages, the skies opened up, lashing down torrential rain that made driving quickly extremely risky in the wet.&nbsp; Throughout the day, these changing conditions made it very important for the teams\u2019 pit crews to match up their car with the right tyre, enabling them to be set-up for successfully completing the race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was less than three seconds between first and second place, with team number 75 and its drivers (K. Habul, J. Gounon, and L. Stolz) guiding their SunEnergy1 Mercedes-AMG into second place.&nbsp; And it was less than four seconds behind the race leader and team number 22; drivers L. Talbot, K. van der Linde, and C. Haase bringing their Wash It\/Jamec Team MPC Audi home for third place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mount_Panorama_Circuit_Map_Overview-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15407\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The excitement didn\u2019t end there.\u00a0 Previously, in the build-up to the big race, a new closed-cockpit race record was set by Jules Gounon driving an unrestricted Mercedes-AMG GT3 car.\u00a0 Gounon, the three-time defending 12 Hour Bathurst race winner, clocked a 1 minute and 56.6054 second lap.\u00a0 Though this was an unofficial lap record (official lap records are set during racing itself), his time was quicker than the previous closed-cockpit track record (1 minute and 58.690 seconds) set in 2019 by Luke Youlden in a Brabham BT62.\u00a0 During this fastest lap for closed-cockpit cars, Gounon, in the Mercedes-AMG GT3, was hitting 270 km\/h on Mountain Straight, 200 km\/h into the Cutting, 240 km\/h into McPhillamy, and 302 km\/h into The Chase.\u00a0 This bid for a race record was part of Mercedes-AMG\u2019s celebration of its 130<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of being involved in motorsport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you think that reading about it is exciting enough, try and take yourself there next year to actually watch at least some of it live. Motorsport is a lot more exciting when seen live in person, where you can feel the air shake, smell the fumes and see what those speeds actually look like as the vehicles pass you.\u00a0 Or if the full 12 hours of Bathurst isn\u2019t for you, then check out another motorsport event \u2013 something that should be on every car enthusiast\u2019s bucket list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or just enjoy the highlights reel: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5LgtBWRP50?si=44OZkKKV3dMmifLy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big weekend of racing that happened at Bathurst.&nbsp; The 2024 Repco Bathurst 12 Hour race proved to be an eventful and exciting race, and it was a dominant performance from Matt Campbell, Ayhancan Guven, and Laurens Vanthoor who all drove faultlessly to take out the win in their yellow Manthey&nbsp;EMA Porsche race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,86,1,280],"tags":[26,7857,7859,7860,7858,14,229],"class_list":["post-15406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-blog","category-home","category-motor-sport","tag-audi","tag-bathurst-12-hour","tag-car-race","tag-mercedes-amg-2","tag-motor-race","tag-motorsport","tag-porsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15408,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions\/15408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}