THE Falcon in which Scott McLaughlin charged to the 2012 Super2 title will make its racing return this weekend.

Chassis SBR FG01 has not been active since car owner Jason Gomersall ran it at the 2022 Super3 finale in Adelaide.

With McLaughlin making a guest appearance at that event, Gomersall opted to return the car to its #93 Fujitsu livery from a decade earlier for the occasion.

Having since spent three years dormant on display, the car headed to Queensland Raceway in December for a shakedown ahead of Jason’s son Ben Gomersall driving it in the Combined Sedans support category at this weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour.

“I parked it after the last time I raced it a few years ago in Adelaide – it has actually been up at the Gold Coast Motor Museum and has been sitting there,” Gomersall Sr explained to V8 Sleuth.

Scott McLaughlin and Jason Gomersall inspect SBR FG01 at the 2022 Adelaide 500. Pic: Supplied

“So I just wanted to put it on track (at QR) to make sure everything was fine. It ran faultlessly.

“The idea is to give Ben some more Bathurst laps in a Supercar, you can’t get enough of those. So it’s no pressure, just a casual fun weekend.

“I’m sort of doing the same thing with my 6 Hour Mustang, getting some Bathurst laps.

“Because we’ve sort of found that even though it sounds like you get a lot of practice at the 6 Hour, by the time you split it across three drivers and have yellow flags, red flags, you actually don’t get a lot of laps before race day. So this way I’ll get the car to myself and hopefully get a few laps.”

It will give the father and son a chance to compete against one another, albeit in markedly different equipment.

“I don’t think I’ll get anywhere near him. He’s in a Supercar and I’m in a production car and he’s probably a bit quicker than me anyway,” smiled Jason Gomersall.

“I just told him, ‘don’t crash into me’. They’re both my cars!”

Ben Gomersall is preparing for his second Super2 season, having joined Tickford Autosport over the summer.

Prior to becoming McLaughlin’s Super2 weapon, SBR FG01 tallied 52 main game races in the hands of Alex Davison across 2009-10.

Pic: Matthew Paul Photography