WILL the sun shine at Mount Panorama for this year’s Bathurst 12 Hour?
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After finishing as the runners-up in the 2018 edition of the world class endurance race, Kenny Habul’s SunEnergy1 team has confirmed it will be on the grid again this year.
Habul will be joined in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 by Tristan Vautier and 2013 Bathurst 12 Hour winner Thomas Jager at the Mount – a combination which certainly has podium potential.
Jager has become something of a Bathurst regular – especially in Mercedes-AMG machinery – and teamed with DTM legend Bernd Schneider and Alex Rollof to win the race for Erebus Motorsport in 2013.
Vautier, a former IndyCar racer, won the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge Drivers championship in a season that kicked off with second place at Bathurst in the SunEnergy1 Mercedes AMG.
The Frenchman finished on the podium in every ICGT race last season, including winning the Suzuka 10 Hours.
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Ex-pat Aussie Habul, who said his 2018 Bathurst podium was a ‘dream come true’, clinched the ICGT Bronze drivers’ championship in the final round at Laguna Seca late last year.
The SunEnergy entry will be supported by Queensland based Scott Taylor Motorsport a team which is backing two other outfits as well – the Mercedes-AMG entry to be driven by Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen, plus Erebus Motorsport Pro-Am hopefuls Yasser Shahin, David Reynolds and Luke Youlden.
“Every year this race goes to a whole new level and 2019 is proving to be the largest yet. There are some formidable entries this year who we respect and are looking forward to challenging on our home soil,” Taylor said.
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“The guys in the STM workshop have worked hard to rebuild all three cars so as to deliver a package where every component has been fully serviced, re-built or replaced, the guys and girls have done an amazing job.
“Our combined lead-up, our diligence, the drivers and the proven teams of Triple 8, Erebus, and STM will deliver three highly competitive entries, we all can’t wait to be part of the Bathurst 12 Hour show to the world.”
