{"id":167395,"date":"2025-12-04T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:04:24","slug":"more-than-30-cars-confirmed-for-2026-bathurst-12-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167395\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 30 cars confirmed for 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"More
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeam WRT won the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour. <\/p>\n

As it stands, the 2026 entry list is the largest since 2020. That year, 34 cars took the start.<\/p>\n

Organisers have confirmed this year\u2019s race will be a multi-class affair, with GT4 and Invitational entries lodged.<\/p>\n

David Crampton has been confirmed as the first Invitational entry with his KTM X-Bow GT2 under the Vantage Racing banner run by GWR Australia.<\/p>\n

Entries remain open until January, and a full entry list will be published thereafter.<\/p>\n

Speedcafe understands that a strong representation from Mercedes-AMG is expected, which could reach well into double figures.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Bathurst 12 Hour winners, Team WRT, have not confirmed their entry.<\/p>\n

Team WRT confirmed to Speedcafe it is awaiting a decision from BMW on its participation in the Intercontinental GT Challenge.<\/p>\n

Kelvin van der Linde won this year\u2019s Intercontinental GT Challenge for BMW. The German marque also won the manufacturers\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n

Other brands confirmed for the 2026 Bathurst 12 Hour include Corvette, Ferrari, BMW, Audi, McLaren, Porsche, and Lamborghini.<\/p>\n


\n \"\"
\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team WRT won the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour. As it stands, the 2026 entry list is the largest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[62853,111,139,69,216,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-167395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bathurst-12-hour","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-slot3","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}