Graeme Dowsett’s Team NZ Aston Martin Vantage hit the wall after contact with the Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 driven by Alfred Renauer.
Approaching Sulman Park, Alfred Renauer stuck his Herbert Motorsport Porsche 911 up the inside of the Graeme Dowsett-driven Team NZ Aston Martin Vantage.
With its nose slightly ahead, the Porsche swiped the Aston Martin. Contact sent the GT4 into a slide and rearward into the wall.
That brought out the red flag with just over five minutes to go, and the session did not resume.
Earlier in the session, Renauer’s co-driver Ralf Bohn spun at The Chase.
There were also problems for the #42 Method Motorsport McLaren 570S, suffering from overheating issues. The team tried to leave the pit lane just as the red flag flew.
BIIIIG damage to the No. 7 Aston Martin 💥#B12Hr pic.twitter.com/n1Y7mJziVR
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The session was topped by Kenny Habul in his #75 Mercedes-AMG, a whopping six tenths faster than local Brad Schumacher in the #55 Audi R8 thanks to new tyres and a low fuel run.
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Habul’s lap, a 2:04.9062s, could be the quickest lap ever cut by the expat Australian.
“It might be. I’ve felt a lot of pressure from my teammates, who are telling me that I have to do a [two-minute] four [second lap] around here or I’m not a man,” said Habul.
“I’m not much for quali laps, but they put the new tyres on and had low fuel and said have a go.
“To be honest, it was fun. It was actually easier to drive it faster with low fuel and new tyres than what I’m used to.
“It wasn’t very stressful. I could have done a [two-minute] three, to be honest, looking at the data and the sector times. Not something I want to do again, but I did what I was told.”
Behind Schumacher, team owner-driver Garth Walden was a meagre 0.0006s adrift in the #45 GWR Australia/RAM Motorsport Mercedes-AMG.
Cunfan Ruan was the best of the international contingent, putting the #89 Team KRC BMW M4 fourth overall. Johannes Zelger put the #79 Tsunami RT Porsche 911 fifth fastest.
Practice 5 at the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour gets underway on Saturday at 8:05am AEDT.
Results: Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour Practice 4 (Bronze)
Pos
Num
Driver
Car
Laps
Lap
Diff
Gap
1
75
Kenny Habul
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
9
2:04.9062
2
55
Brad Schumacher
Audi RB LMS GT3 Evo
13
2:05.5099
0.6037
0.6037
3
45
Garth Walden
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
13
2:05.5105
0.6043
0.0006
4
89
Cunfan Ruan
BMW M4 GT3 EVO
14
2:06.0486
1.1424
0.5381
5
79
Johannes Zelger
Porsche 911 GT3R
12
2:06.5692
1.663
0.5206
6
193
Jonathan Hui
Ferrari 296 GT3
12
2:06.6823
1.7761
0.1131
7
21
Alfred Renauer
Porsche 911 GT3R
14
2:06.7380
1.8318
0.0557
8
27
Ian James
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
13
2:07.7800
2.8738
1.042
9
111
Daniel Stutterd
IRC GT
13
2:07.9360
3.0298
0.156
10
93
Adrian Deitz
Lamborghini Huracan
13
2:08.1577
3.2515
0.2217
11
44
Sergio Pires
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
13
2:08.3540
3.4478
0.1963
12
268
Mark Rosser
Audi RB LMS GT3 Evo
14
2:08.8754
3.9692
0.5214
13
47
Theo Koundouris
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
13
2:09.0914
4.1852
0.216
14
99
Prince Abu Bakar
Chevrolet Z06 GT3.R
13
2:09.3553
4.4491
0.2639
15
86
Kerong Li
Porsche 911 GT3R
14
2:10.4049
5.4987
1.0496
16
9
Marc Cini
Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo
13
2:10.8942
5.988
0.4893
17
50
Trent Harrison
KTM X-BOW GT2
12
2:11.7000
6.7938
0.8058
18
101
Tony Quinn
Audi RB LMS GT3 Evo
12
2:14.1207
9.2145
2.4207
19
14
Damien Hamilton
Aston Martin Vantage
13
2:15.4148
10.5086
1.2941
20
7
Graeme Dowsett
Aston Martin Vantage
12
2:22.3451
17.4389
6.9303
21
42
Adrian Kunzle
McLaren Artura GT4
6
2:28.7825
23.8763
6.4374
