Bathurst 12 Hour 2013

[180fan]

I headed up to Mount Panorama today to watch a bit of this years 12 hour, thought I would post up some photos that I took up there. The race is still going at the moment, can watch it on a livestream here: http://new.livestrea.../bathurst12hour

More pics can be found here: http://www.facebook....=1&l=08402169e3

[180fan]

Few more pics

[tweety bird]

it was a good race that's for sure.

[NISMO]

Got home not long ago and was an awesome weekend. Camping behind the pits in last nights storms was, well, interesting to say the least, but all part of the fun

Can't wait till next year.

Heaps more people this year compared to last, especially on the Friday so hopefully it just gets bigger and bigger each year.

The sounds those 458's make are truly unbelievable and the Merc's sound so effortless.

Hopefully we'll get an R35 GT3 car next year.

The only down side was the support races need to lift their game. Way to many incidents and at one stage yesterday went through 3 categories and a few hours without a lap being run in anger. All under safety car.

[180fan]

Yeah it gets a bit wild up there during the storms.

The Mercs and the 458's sounded insane! I'll post up some more pics soon, including some from standing on the GWS Motorsports (the BMW 335 and the 2 130's) pit wall.

[FineLine]

One of our qld members (Bradgtr) is dirving the pace car. Lucky bastard.

[NISMO]

^ bastard! was saying to a mate how the hell do you get a gig like that. I reckon he had more laps around the track this weekend than half the actual competitors

[180fan]

Moar!

More photos at

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200608298312146.2205918.1300279348&type=1&l=08402169e3

[Duncan]

great times run by these cars too, I understand Simonsen got the Ferrari down to a 2.05

[Marlin]

Excellent pics!

My buddys Herridge & Kennard and Team's good run in the class leading STi ended when their co-driver got tapped by an overtaking Porsche and turned into the wall at the 8hr mark sadly.

[Roy]

is it me or the promotion of the event was a little low key? There was nothing on OS websites....not a lot of local talk. I really only knew as my housemate was up their doing photography for a few sites/magazines.

This should be one of the biggest things on the Aus calendar. Great cars, range of teams and budgets...good racing. Various classes. Looking forward to watching the highlights on SBS

[Snowman]

Hopefully we'll get an R35 GT3 car next year.

Rumors are a guy in W.A. has purchased one. Not sure if the plan is to do B12 in it however or what his plans are but it does bring hope.

I spent most of Sunday watching the stream and it's confirmed my desire to do it.

One day....

[180fan]

is it me or the promotion of the event was a little low key? There was nothing on OS websites....not a lot of local talk. I really only knew as my housemate was up their doing photography for a few sites/magazines.

This should be one of the biggest things on the Aus calendar. Great cars, range of teams and budgets...good racing. Various classes. Looking forward to watching the highlights on SBS

Yeah, I didn't see any advertisement for it at all. Although, from what the commentators on the day were saying, they had close to 10k spectators this year, which is more than last year, so I guess people are finding out about it. It would be nice for at least a few hours of it to be aired live on one of the major networks though, rather than having to wait a few weeks for highlights to be televised

[R32Big_boy]

is it me or the promotion of the event was a little low key? There was nothing on OS websites....not a lot of local talk. I really only knew as my housemate was up their doing photography for a few sites/magazines.

This should be one of the biggest things on the Aus calendar. Great cars, range of teams and budgets...good racing. Various classes. Looking forward to watching the highlights on SBS

there was a fair bit of TV promotion in country NSW when I was up there for the event, and a solid crowd over the three days. The Radio Le Mans guys as well as Richard Craill did a great job commentating the action between the safety cars too. Snowy, 2014/15 campaign in the 35? All you need to do is keep the wheels from falling off like Alfords car and your in with a chance.

I did a write up for Speedhunters you can check out here.

[sav man]

The highlights were on SBS last weekend

[SRS13]

It's on now on foxtel 512 speed.

[SRS13]

Double post.

Edited February 23, 2013 by SRS13

[Marlin]

I thought the live feed was really good fwiw. Good team of knowledgable people.