2018 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Post-Race Statistics (February 4, 2018)

Event statistics following this weekend’s Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia. The race marked the opening round of the four-race 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge series.

Robin Frijn (Netherlands), Stuart Leonard (United Kingdom) and Dries Vanthoor took the overall victory in an Audi R8 LMS for Team WRT (Belgium). The race was shortened to 11 hours, 38 minutes and 4.133 seconds due to an accident.

Race Statistics

Liqui Moly Bathurst 12

Mount Panorama Circuit – Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

- Winners (Overall/APP): Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard, Dries Vanthoor

- Winners (APA): Jeroen Bleekemolen, Tim Papaas, Luca Stolz, Marc Lieb (3rd overall)

- Winners (AAM): James Koundouris, Theo Koundouris, Duvashen Padayachee, Ashley Walsh (10th overall)

- Winners (B): Stephen Grove, Brenton Grove, Ben Barker, Daniel Gaunt (17th overall)

- Winners (I): Keith Kassulke, Rod Salmon, Will Brown (18th overall)

- Winners (C): Tony Longhurst, Aaron Seton, Matthew Brabham (22nd overall)

- Laps Completed: 271

- Cars on Lead Lap at Finish: 7

- Cars Finishing: 32 of 50 (second consecutive year 32 cars finished)

- Fastest Lap: Chaz Mostert (2:01.9575, Lap 7)

Notes of Interest

- This was the 17th running of the Bathurst 12. Sixteen races have been held at Bathurst and one at Eastern Creek Raceway.

- This was the first overall victory by the three overall winners – Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard and Dries Vanthoor. Frijns’s win was the first for The Netherlands, Leonard’s the first for the United Kingdom, and Vanthoor’s the first for Belgium since 2015 (Wolfgang Reip) and second all-time.

- With Frijns, Leonard and Vanthoor sharing the victory, a total of 40 drivers have been crowned overall winners of the Bathurst 12 since 1991.

- This is the first race since 2015 that an Australian driver was not part of the winning team of drivers overall. Overall, Australian drivers have laid claim to 30 victories.

- The race’s 271 laps completed was the fewest since 2013 (268 laps).

- This marked Audi’s third overall victory in the Bathurst 12, following victories in 2011 and 2012. Mazda remains the all-time leader with four victories.

- Audi added a class victory in the AAM class, the only manufacturer with multiple victories in the race.

- Porsche has earned a class victory every year since 2011 (seven consecutive races).