{"id":623167,"date":"2026-04-22T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:46:23","slug":"motorsport-news-fabian-coulthard-headlines-australian-endurance-championship-ipswich-3-hour-entry-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623167\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport news: Fabian Coulthard headlines Australian Endurance Championship Ipswich 3 Hour entry list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Supercars-Testing-2-SMP-Z81_3181.jpg\" alt=\"Coulthard headlines Australian Endurance Championship entry\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWalkinshaw TWG Racing co-driver Fabian Coulthard. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n<p>Coulthard will join John Nikolovski in a Mercedes-AMG GT4 at the Ipswich 3 Hour out of the AR Nineteen camp as part of a 17-car grid.<\/p>\n<p>Other high-profile names include Grant Denyer with Anthony Soole in a McLaren 570s GT4 while Paul Morris will join Chris Pappas in another McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Former Porsche Carrera Cup Australia and TCR Australia Series regular Luke King will partner Jamie Arratoon in a Mercedes-AMG.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s third Merc will be shared by team owner Mark Griffith and Tom Hayman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fcttn.com\/products\/v8s-in-nz-tee\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, the regulations have been relaxed to allow GT4 cars to enter \u2013 though the production car element remains key.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Begg will bring out his BMW M4 with Steve Jukes, who makes his return to the national racing scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cess Valstar and Dylan Lake will share a 996-spec Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland Raceway custodian Tony Quinn will share a Toyota Supra with Matt McCutcheon.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Gooley and Maika Ter Horst will also share a BMW M4. They will be out for redemption having narrowly missed out on the Fight in the Night honours a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Other entries include Eric Ebert\/Luke van Herwaarde (BMW 240iX), Ben Gersekwski\/Richard Shinkfield (E92 M3), Jim Manteufel\/Garry Beggs (HSV Clubsport R8) and Dan Lindley (Audi RS3).<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Endurance Championship Ipswich 3 Hour is part of the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series 2 Days of Thunder event at Queensland Raceway on May 1-3.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will qualify at 10:25am AEST before the three-hour begins at 5:25pm AEST.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/250635.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walkinshaw TWG Racing co-driver Fabian Coulthard. Image: Richard Gresham Coulthard will join John Nikolovski in a Mercedes-AMG GT4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,6490,85],"class_list":["post-623167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot3","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623167","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=623167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}