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The 2016 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour was an endurance race for a variety of GT and touring car classes, including: GT3 cars, GT4 cars and
– Will Bamber was unable to drive in the race following a crash during the qualifying session.
– Greame Dowsett was unable to drive in the race following a pre-race injury. He was replaced by Nick Foster * Class winners are shown in bold. * Race time of winning car: 12:01:05.1330 * Fastest race lap: 2:01.5670 – Shane van Gisbergen
The 2016 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
Group 3E Series Production Cars is an Australian motor racing formula for production based cars competing with limited modifications. Group 3E cars formerly contested the Australian Manufacturers' Championship and Australian Production Car Champion ...
. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales
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, Australia on 7 February 2016, was the fourteenth running of the Bathurst 12 Hour. It was also the opening round of the 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge
The 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the first season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season featured three rounds — after the cancellation of the 6 Hours of the Americas - starting with Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 7 F ...
Series.
37 cars were entered for the race and 36 cars started the race, with one entry withdrawn following a crash in practice. Álvaro Parente
Álvaro Parente (born 4 October 1984) is a Portuguese professional racing driver.
Career
Early career
After winning the Karting European Junior Championship in 1998, Porto-born Parente made his debut in auto racing in 2001 at the age of 16, ...
, Shane van Gisbergen
Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver in the Supercars Championship racing in the Number 97 Holden ZB Commodore car for Triple Eight Race Engineering. With three Supercars Championship wins ( 2016, 2021, ...
and Jonathon Webb won the event driving a McLaren 650S GT3
The McLaren 650S is a British sports car designed and manufactured by British automobile manufacturer McLaren Automotive. It was announced in February 2014 as a new model, but based on the existing MP4-12C with 25% new parts, and was formally ...
. Despite 13 safety car periods, the race ended with 297 laps completed, a race record distance.
Class structure
Cars competed in the following three classes.2016 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour Official Programme, p. 42–43 * 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 I – Invitational Class C was also available for entry for GT4 cars, however due to lack of entries, the sole Class C car entered was merged into Class I.Official results
– The #93MARC Cars Australia
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Racing history
Production
Founder Ryan McLeod entered several edi ...
entry was listed in both the official entry list and the official results as a MARC Focus GTC but it was actually a MARC Mazda3 GTC.– Will Bamber was unable to drive in the race following a crash during the qualifying session.
– Greame Dowsett was unable to drive in the race following a pre-race injury. He was replaced by Nick Foster * Class winners are shown in bold. * Race time of winning car: 12:01:05.1330 * Fastest race lap: 2:01.5670 – Shane van Gisbergen
References
External links
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