{"id":416199,"date":"2026-01-16T05:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:33:12","slug":"ford-names-feeney-mies-olsen-for-bathurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416199\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Names Feeney, Mies & Olsen For Bathurst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford\u2019s assault on the 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour will see Supercars ace Broc Feeney team up with factory GT drivers Chris Mies and Dennis Olsen in a Pro class Mustang GT3 under the HRT Ford Racing banner.<\/p>\n

The line-up and livery for the effort were confirmed during Ford\u2019s 2026 season launch event tonight in Detroit, along with Proton Competition\u2019s 2026 FIA WEC LMGT3 driver crews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

23-year-old Australian Feeney will take on \u2018The Mountain\u2019 in the Mustang GT3\u2019s debut in the event<\/a> off the back of a highly successful Supercars campaign and a World Challenge Australia title win in 2025.<\/p>\n

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He has five previous starts at the Bathurst 12 Hour, scoring an Invitational class win in 2020 on debut and has three top six finishes in the last four years.<\/p>\n

His teammates for the event, Mies and Olsen, have both won the 12 Hour overall.<\/p>\n

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Mies won the race in 2011 and 2012 during his stint with Audi Sport, while Olsen claimed the win in 2019 as part of Earl Bamber Motorsport\u2019s Porsche effort.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour will run from 13-15 February.<\/p>\n

Images courtesy of Ford\/HRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ford\u2019s assault on the 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour will see Supercars ace Broc Feeney team up with factory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,219589],"class_list":{"0":"post-416199","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","15":"tag-stephen-kilbey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416199","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=416199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}