Shane van Gisbergen’s Triple Eight Mercedes headed Matt Campbell’s Manthey Porsche after three hours of racing at Mount Panorama in the Bathurst12hour. Report ⬇️
The opening salvo of the Intercontinental GT Challenge round was headed by polesitter Maro Engel's GruppeM Mercedes ahead of the similar Triple Eight machine started by Maxi Gotz, the Manthey Porsche with Thomas Preining at the wheel, Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Mercedes and Augusto Farfus's WRT BMW M4.
The order of the lead bunch was unchanged in a tight opening stint as Engel edged away from Gotz, while Dries Vanthoor in the second WRT BMW moved through the lower reaches of the top 10 to claim sixth. SunEnergy1, the defending event winner, jumped team owner Kenny Habul ahead of the Porsche now with Mathieu Jaminet inserted, but the French factory ace soon overcame the 49-year-old gentleman driver on lap 40. Habul then dropped behind Maxime Martin and the leading Pro-Am entry of Audi driver Frederic Vervisch - the Belgian also passing his compatriot - before Charles Weerts demoted Habul to seventh.
Shortly after Vervisch pitted from fourth to hand over to Brad Schumacher, the first caution of the race followed when Stephen Grove shunted his Porsche at Skyline.Leader Grenier pitted one lap later than the rest of the lead bunch and so dropped to sixth for the restart, with van Gisbergen installed in the lead car ahead of Jaminet and MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi . Weerts was elevated to fourth ahead of Habul, who soon dropped behind Grenier upon the resumption of hostilities.
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