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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 Group 3E Series Production Cars. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in
– 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. The event, which was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
, Australia
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on 7 February 2016, was the fourteenth running of the Bathurst 12 Hour
The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Meguiar's Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an annual endurance race for Group GT3, GT and Production car racing, production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, New South ...
. It was also the opening round of the 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge 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37 cars were entered for the race and 36 cars started the race, with one entry withdrawn following a crash in practice.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 Maia Parente (born 4 October 1984) is a Portugal, 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 ...
, Shane van Gisbergen
Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989), also known by his initials SVG, is a New Zealand professional auto racing, racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation)#ZL1, C ...
and Jonathon Webb
Jonathon Stephen Webb (born 10 December 1983) is an Australian former professional racing driver and team owner of Team Sydney, who once co-drove alongside Fabian Coulthard in the No. 19 Holden ZB Commodore for the Pirtek Enduro Cup.
In 2016, ...
won the event driving a McLaren 650S GT3. 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
MARC Cars Australia is an Australian auto racing team and racecar manufacturer, who compete internationally in sports car racing, sports car and endurance racing (motorsport), endurance racing events, mostly in their own GTC prototype cars.
Ra ...
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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