Over 20 entries for the 2019 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour have been confirmed, with a flood of further announcements expected over the new year period.
Among the entries revealed to date are some serious heavy hitters of local motorsport and international endurance racing.
The headline act is arguably the all-star Supercars trio of Craig Lowndes, Shane van Gisbergen, and Jamie Whincup in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 campaigned by Triple Eight Race Engineering in an alliance with Scott Taylor Motorsport.
STM has also joined forces with Erebus Motorsport, itself a past outright winner of the Bathurst 12 Hour, to run a Pro-Am entry for the latter's 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 winners, David Reynolds and Luke Youlden, alongside gentleman racer Yasser Shahin.
Matt Campbell has been elevated to a Pro class entry which he will share with Dennis Olsen and Dirk Werner, although Porsche has not yet announced which team will field the car.
Porsche has in fact named two cars for the Pro class, as have Audi, Bentley and BMW.
R-Motorsport represents a return of Aston Martin to the mountain while Asian team HubAuto Corsa debuts with an all-Australian driver line-up of Supercars team-mates Tim Slade and Nick Percat, and Nick Foster.
The five confirmed Pro-Am entries are spread across as many models, while four cars have been named so far in Class C, including three KTM X-Bows.
The 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour will be held from January 31-February 3.
Current entries: 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour
Class | Team | Drivers | Car | |
PRO | Bentley Team M-Sport | Vincent Abril Jules Gounon Steven Kane Jordan Pepper Andy Soucek Maxime Soulet |
Bentley Continental GT3 | Report |
PRO | Bentley Team M-Sport | Bentley Continental GT3 | ||
PRO | HubAuto Corsa | Nick Foster Nick Percat Tim Slade |
Ferrari 488 GT3 | Report |
PRO | R-Motorsport | TBA TBA TBA |
Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | Report |
PRO | Triple Eight Race Engineering/Scott Taylor Motorsport | Craig Lowndes Shane van Gisbergen Jamie Whincup |
Mercedes-AMG GT3 | Report |
PRO | Walkenhorst Motorsport | Christian Krognes TBA TBA |
BMW M6 GT3 | Report |
PRO | TBA | Augusto Farfus Martin Tomczyk TBA |
BMW M6 GT3 | Report |
PRO | TBA | Matt Campbell Dennis Olsen Dirk Werner |
Porsche 911 GT3 R | |
PRO | TBA | Romain Dumas Mathieu Jaminet Sven Müller |
Porsche 911 GT3 R | |
PRO | TBA | TBA TBA TBA |
Audi R8 LMS GT3 | Report |
PRO | TBA | TBA TBA TBA |
Audi R8 LMS GT3 | Report |
PRO-AM | Audi Sport Customer Racing | Marc Cini Lee Holdsworth Dean Fiore |
Audi R8 LMS GT3 | Report |
PRO-AM | Black Swan Racing | Tim Pappas Jeroen Bleekemolen Marc Lieb |
Porsche 911 GT3 R | Report |
PRO-AM | Competition Motorsports | David Calvert-Jones Kevin Estre Jaxon Evans |
Porsche 911 GT3 R | Report |
PRO-AM | Erebus Motorsport/Scott Taylor Motorsport | David Reynolds Yasser Shahin Luke Youlden |
Mercedes-AMG GT3 | Report |
PRO-AM | Objective Racing | Tony Walls Warren Luff Andrew Watson |
McLaren 650S GT3 | Report |
PRO-AM | R-Motorsport | TBA TBA TBA |
Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | Report |
PRO-AM | Wall Racing | Tony D'Alberto Jules Westwood Cameron McConville Adrian Deitz |
Lamborghini Huracan | Report |
C | M Motorsport | Dean Koutsoumidis Jake Parsons James Winslow |
KTM X-Bow GT4 | Report |
C | M Motorsport | David Crampton Trent Harrison Tim Macrow Caitlin Wood |
KTM X-Bow GT4 | Report |
C | M Motorsport | Justin McMillan Glen Wood Dean Lillie TBA |
KTM X-Bow GT4 | Report |
C | RHC Lawrence/Strom by MARC Cars | Daren Jorgensen Brett Strom TBA TBA |
BMW M4 GT4 | Report |