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The 2014 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour was an endurance race for a variety of GT and touring car classes, including: GT3 cars, GT4 cars and
The 2014 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 9 February 2014, was the twelfth running of the Bathurst 12 Hour.
44 cars were entered for the race, though four entries were withdrawn due to crashes in practice and qualifying. John Bowe, Peter Edwards, Craig Lowndes
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Lowndes is a three-time V8 Sup ...
and Mika Salo
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won the race for Maranello Motorsport
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Racing Hist ...
, driving a Ferrari 458 GT3
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, after Lowndes won a close battle with German driver Maximilian Buhk late in the race. Buhk finished second for HTP Motorsport
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along with Thomas Jäger
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Career
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and Harold Primat
Harold Primat (born 12 June 1975) is a French-born Swiss racing driver who previously competed in the Blancpain Endurance Series and other long-distance events such as the Bathurst 12 Hour and Nurburgring 24 Hours.
Early career
The nephew of ...
, just four tenths of a second behind Lowndes. Greg Crick, Will Davison
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and Jack Le Brocq
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finished third for Erebus Motorsport
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The team i ...
, with Davison holding off Shane van Gisbergen
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in the closing laps despite having a damaged car. The Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 had shown early pace but was involved in an early crash at the top of the circuit and did not finish.
Three Fiat Abarth 500s had been invited and were competing in their own class, with their lap times being much slower than the GT3 cars. A late safety car saw the three Fiats mixed in with the leading GT3 cars at the front of the safety car queue. The three drivers voluntarily drove through the pit lane as the race restarted, giving the leading GT3 cars a clearer track as they battled for position in the closing laps.
The 2014 race was the fastest ever contested to that point, setting a distance record of 296 laps (1839 kilometres), which was not broken until 2016.
Class structure
Cars competed in the following six classes.Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour Official Event Programme, p. 34–35 * Class A – GT3 Outright * Class B – GT3 (Older Specification)/GT3 Cup Cars * Class C – GT4 * Class D – Invitational (over 3000cc) * Class F – Invitational (up to 3000cc) * Class I – Invitational (non-production)Official results
* Note: Class winners are shown in bold. * Race time of winning car: 12:00:29.5750 * Fastest race lap: 2:03.8506 – Shane van GisbergenReferences
External links
* {{Bathurst 12 Hour Motorsport in Bathurst, New South Wales Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour