The team will be seeking a Bathurst 6 Hour podium as the winners of the Class C battle with one of their two Renault Megane RS 265 Trophy R cars.

Team owner Colin Osborne will share one of those Renaults with Hadrian Morrall, continuing a co-driving partnership between two schoolmates which was first formed in 2010.

The second car will be steered by Brisbane’s Calum Jones and another of Osborne’s former schoolmates Geoffrey Full, while Dubbo teenager Tyler Everingham has been listed as driver three.

Osborne, who served as the president of CAMS from 2000-08, is proud of the way his team has forged a reputation of consistently strong performances over the years.

“I got involved in motor sport 40 years ago as a teenager. It was one of those things that started out as a hobby and 10 years after getting involved, you get a lot more serious,” he said.

“Our team, Osborne Motorsport, as a Production Car team, is probably the longest serving team in Australia and it’s something about which I am very proud.

“In the 30 years since we began Production Car Racing in Australia, we’ve won the national championship three times – in 2002, 2005 and 2008 – and one of the team cars has won its class more often than not in the last 30 years.

“So I guess you could say we are pretty well recognised in the Production Car arena.”

Osborne and his team are no strangers to the Bathurst circuit and have previously enjoyed success in endurance races staged at Mount Panorama.

“We won the entire Production Car category in the 2003 24 Hour at Bathurst,” Osborne said.

“We also won our class in three of the Bathurst 12 Hour races held there in 2007, 2008 and 2010.”

In the two editions of the Bathurst 6 Hour staged thus far, the best result for Osborne Motorsport was a 25^th outright and fifth in class on debut in 2016.

Last year the best placed of the team’s two Renaults was again fifth in class and 33^rd outright.

Still, Osborne has reason for confidence as he thinks about the six hours of racing which lies in wait this Sunday.

Certainly his team is investing plenty into trying to secure a positive result.

“My personal opinion is that we’ve showed very, very promising signs of getting a good result, but little niggling things have conspired to rob us of the results we have wanted. But that’s motor sport,” he said of those two past campaigns.

“I love the track, I absolutely love the the track, but because it’s so iconic it’s something that everybody wants to put on their CV, that they won something at Bathurst.

“As a result the tension and pressure gets ratcheted up artificially. We’re bringing more equipment to Bathurst this weekend than we’d ever dream of taking to any other event and you do it because it’s Bathurst.

“For team such as ours the logistics are pretty significant for the weekend. We are bringing 21 people to run things and they all have to be accommodated, fed, watered and uniformed.”