{"id":151498,"date":"2025-09-18T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151498\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:45:10","slug":"lap-time-limit-reduced-for-bathurst-12-hour-all-comers-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151498\/","title":{"rendered":"Lap time limit reduced for Bathurst 12 Hour all-comers race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Combined-Sedans-Race-Start.jpg\" alt=\"Lap time limit reduced for Bathurst 12 Hour all-comers race\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe start of a Combines Sports Car and Sedans race at Mount Panorama. Image: Mick Reynolds<\/p>\n<p>This year, the category opened its doors to older GT3 cars out of homologation, and now the variety of cars that can compete is set to expand.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the fastest permitted lap time was a 2m09s around Mount Panorama. That has been reduced to a 2m05s for the first time in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected the grid will reach its capacity of 55 cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteven and Bronwyn Lacey of Ripplestrip Motorsport will once again return to Bathurst as the Category Managers for this event,\u201d Duggan Family Hotels\u2019 Ellie Duggan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be their 16th consecutive year at the Mountain managing a large grid category and this event promises to be even bigger than the last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will also be Duggan Family Hotels fifth year of sponsoring the category. It\u2019s become a tradition for us and an event we look forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adjustment to the eligibility criteria saw a variety of new competitors this year, including several GT3-spec cars from Lamborghini and Audi.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected several IRC cars and MARC cars will race alongside some of the established names in national Sports Sedan racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore entries officially open we have already had international interest and many of last year\u2019s competitors expressing their interest,\u201d category manager Bronwyn Lacey of Ripplestrip Motorsport said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bodes well for a full grid of quality racing machines, including older GT cars, Production Sports and Sedan Cars, Sprint Challenge Porsches and Sports Sedans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis category, with the assistance of Motorsport Australia, Supercars and various National Category Managers give so many competitors a rare opportunity to race at the Mountain on the big stage at the Bathurst 12 hour, which wouldn\u2019t be possible without all parties working together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Meguiar\u2019s Bathurst 12 Hour takes place on February 13-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of a Combines Sports Car and Sedans race at Mount Panorama. Image: Mick Reynolds This year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-151498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}