Overseas entries are starting to be announced for the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour next month as HubAuto Racing is the latest squad to join the line-up.
Prior to the global pandemic stopping the world in 2020, the Bathurst 12 Hour hosted the strongest field in the race’s history and HubAuto Racing was the sole Ferrari in the field. An incident during practice led to enough damage being inflicted to end the squad’s weekend.
The Asian-based squad is up for redemption in 2024 and this time it will be Porsche although the driver line-up is yet to be confirmed.
Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing has also announced its return after finishing third last year, but it will be a rather new driver line-up as star Raffaele Marciello has switched allegiances to BMW where he will contest the FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar Class. Expect Maro Engel to return.
Chaz Mostert is a previous dual winner of the Allan Simonsen Pole Position Award, but will be found in among the slower GT4 entries. Following on from launching Method Motorsport last year, the squad’s first event is the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour where Mostert is joined by Marcos Flack and Jesse Bryan in one of two McLaren Artura GT4s entered by the new operation.
Another fresh model to make its Australian debut will be the Wall Racing Lamborghini Huracan Evo GT3 to be shared by Shell V-Power Racing Team co-driver Tony D’Alberto, David Wall, Network 10 personality Grant Denyer and owner Adrian Deitz.
Other outright contenders include the Phantom Global Racing Porsche spearheaded by latest Repco Supercars Championship driver signing Jaxon Evans, while Heart of Racing by SPS will bolster the Mercedes-AMG attack.
A rush of confirmations is expected before the end of the month as the build-up continues to one of the most highly anticipated Repco Bathurst 12 Hour events in recent times.