HE has stood on the Great Race podium, but next April Warren Luff will be chasing success in another endurance race at Mount Panorama.
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Luff will join the Australian Production Car Series for round one of the 2017 season – the Bathurst 6 Hour.
Luff will join Leigh Burges at the wheel of the #11 DPO BMW 335i.
The man who has twice placed third in the Bathurst 1000 can’t wait to take part in the new event.
“Doing the APC [Australian Production Car] 6 Hour at Bathurst is kind of returning to my racing roots because so much of my early career was all production car racing, and different production based one make series,” Luff explained.
“Any time you get to race at Bathurst is exciting, and the support the 6 Hour is receiving is seeing it quickly grow as an event.
“The car we are driving has great history and will certainly be in with a chance.”
Luff said he is looking forward to lining-up with co-driver Burges and rates their chances for success at the mountain as good.
“Leigh and I are going to Bathurst feeling very confident, and I am looking forward to working with and helping him with my experience,” Luff said.
“The team have the experience and the people to help deliver us a strong result.”
The 2017 Bathurst 6 Hour acts as the first round of an expanded six-round calendar for the Australian Production Car Series next year.
The 6 Hour grid will again be one of the most diverse in Australian motor sport with a broad mixture of cars entered throughout the various classes.
The headline A1 and A2 classes, for ‘extreme performance’ cars with forced induction and those normally aspirated, will again battle it out for outright honours and include several heavy-hitters amongst the entries to date.
Barry Morcom – who entered the race winning BMW 335i Turbo driven by son Nathan and Supercars ace Chaz Mostert – has confirmed his title defence in 2017 that includes a brand-new Ford Focus RS.
The revised CAMS Production Car Regulations and eligibility criteria allow the Audi TT RS into the outright class for the first time, with Tony Alford committing his German thoroughbred to the race.
A host of Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution models are entered, while BMW, HSV and Subaru are also represented in the class A ranks.
Class B cars impressed in 2016, including taking the first two spots on the podium, and will again feature next April thanks to the return of several top-flight BMW entries – including the 2016 winning car and the similar model from GWS Motorsport that twice won the Bathurst 12 Hour enduro.