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The 2017 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race was a
2017 Liqui-moly Bathurst 12 Hour – 12 Hour Category Supplementary Regulations, as archived at web.archive.org
Race Information - 2017 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, www.bathurst12hour.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org
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The 2017 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race was a motorsport
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event for GT3 cars, GT3 Cup cars, GT4 cars and invited vehicles. It was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit
Mount Panorama Circuit is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on Mount Panorama (Wahluu) and is best known as the home of the Bathurst 1000 motor race held each October, and the Bathurst 12 Hour ...
, near Bathurst, in New South Wales
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, Australia
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on 5 February 2017. The race, which was the 15th running of the Bathurst 12 Hour
The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an annual endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, Australia. The race was first held in ...
, was the opening round of the 2017 Intercontinental GT Challenge Series. For the first time, the winners of the race were awarded the Australian Tourist Trophy
The Australian Tourist Trophy is a Confederation of Australian Motor Sport-sanctioned national motor racing title, contested between 1956 and 1979 by Sports Cars and, since 2007, by GT cars. The trophy is currently awarded to the outright winner ...
.
Of the 2016 winning drivers, 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, 202 ...
moved from Tekno Autosports
Tekno Autosports was an Australian motor racing team, established in the 1990s initially for the motor racing activities of Stephen Webb, and later his son Jonathon Webb. The team competes in the Supercars Championship using two Holden ZB Commo ...
and McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor, the second oldest active team, and the second most successful Formul ...
to Scott Taylor Motorsport's Mercedes-AMG GT3
The Mercedes-AMG GT (C190 / R190) is a grand tourer produced in coupé and roadster bodystyles by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-AMG. The car was introduced on and was officially unveiled to the public in October 2014 at the Paris M ...
, prepared by HTP Motorsport
HTP Winward Motorsport also known as Team Mann-Filter, HTP Motorsport and Winward Racing is a German-American-based auto racing team. The team mainly competes in GT3 based series such as the GT World Challenge Europe. The team was founded after H ...
with factory Mercedes backing, 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, ...
remained with Tekno Autosports and Tekno team owner Jonathon Webb
Jonathon 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, Webb and ...
did not drive.
The GT4 Class expanded for 2017 with eight entries, the Porsche Cayman Cayman may refer to
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** Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, or Little Cayman, three islands that are part of the Cayman Islands
* , a British frigate in service with the Royal Navy from 1944 to 194 ...
, KTM X-Bow GT4, Ginetta G55
The Ginetta G55 is a specialist sports car, which has been built by Ginetta Cars since 2011. It is built to the FIA GT3 regulations, and the cars are raced in a one-make series; the Ginetta GT Supercup. In addition to this, they are also used in ...
and Aston Martin Vantage GT4
The Aston Martin Vantage GT4 is an updated version of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24, debuting in late 2008. Its primary alteration is the introduction of the new 4.7-litre V8 that also debuted in the production V8 Vantage. This replaces the 4 ...
.
55 cars were entered (the largest field since the 2007 revival) and 51 cars started, with four entries withdrawn following crashes in practice and qualifying.
The race was won by Craig Lowndes
Craig Andrew Lowndes (born 21 June 1974) is an Australian racing driver in the Repco Supercars Championship competing in the Holden ZB Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He is also a TV commentator.
Lowndes is a three-time V8 Supe ...
, Jamie Whincup
Jamie Whincup (born 6 February 1983) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently is team principal for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He has driven the No. 88 Holden Commodore (ZB), Holden Z ...
and Toni Vilander
Toni Markus Vilander (born 25 July 1980) is a Finnish professional racing driver who currently drives for the Risi Competizione Ferrari team in various categories of sports car racing.
After a single-seater career which reached the level of the ...
driving a Ferrari 488 GT3
The Ferrari 488 (Type F142M) is a mid-engine sports car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari. The car replaced the 458, being the first mid-engine Ferrari to use a turbocharged V8 since the F40. It was succeeded by the Ferra ...
entered by Maranello Motorsport
Maranello Motorsport is a GT racing team that is competing in the Australian GT Championship. Maranello Motorsport was formed in the late 1990s by Mark Coffey to enter Australia's then premier sports car racing series, Nations Cup.
Racing Hist ...
.
Class structure
2017 the first year all-professional driver rosters were permitted. Previously, teams were required one unseeded driver in each entry. Cars competed in the following four classes. * Class A – GT3 Outright ** Class APP (GT3 Pro) – for driver combinations with no unseeded drivers. ** Class APA (GT3 Pro-Am) – for driver combinations including one unseeded driver. ** Class AAM (GT3 Am) – for driver combinations including two or three unseeded drivers. * Class B – GT3 Cup Cars * Class C – GT4 * Class I – InvitationalOfficial results
Bold denotes category winner. * Race time of winning car: 12:00:36.966 * Fastest race lap: 2:02.908 – Toni VilanderReferences
External links
*2017 Liqui-moly Bathurst 12 Hour – 12 Hour Category Supplementary Regulations, as archived at web.archive.org
Race Information - 2017 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, www.bathurst12hour.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org
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