The Bathurst 12 Hour is an endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, Australia each February. This year, Bentley Motorsport finished the Bathurst 12 Hours in third place with its #10 Bentley Team M-Sport Continental GT3. Piloted by Guy Smith (GB), Steven Kane (GB) and Matt Bell (GB), the car completed 297 laps of the 6.2km long circuit and led for just over an hour. The identical #31 car, which also led the race, finished in seventh place. This makes the brand the only GT manufacturer to cross the line with all of its entries after 12 hours of challenging but reliable racing for the Continental GT3s.
“A podium finish in just our second year racing here at Mount Panorama Circuit is a great achievement,”
commented Bentley’s Director of Motorsport, Brian Gush.
“Both of our cars have completed 12 hours of extremely demanding and competitive racing without any reliability issues. Staying out of trouble on the mountain is difficult and we fell foul of some incidents but the crew fought hard to keep us going and completed some very impressive pit stops.”
