#Bathurst 12 hour 2024

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12 HOURS OF BATHURST | Valentino Rossi reacting to the late race action in the WRT garage.

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The N°91 Ford Mustang Marc II V8 banks through the descent off Mt Panorama AU-NSW to close out Friday’s last practice session for FX Racing ahead of the 2024 Bathurst 12 Hour.

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I’m using this for Sebring

I will make Matty gifs. Matty gifs will happen over the 12 hours of Sebring race, so therefore, Matty gifs will happen because I can

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What is the Greatest Team in Motorsports?

So last weekend, Team Penske swept the three-wide front row for the 2024 Indianapolis 500, marking only the second time that a team has locked out the front row. The first time? Penske in 1988. Oh, and just to add a cherry on top of that, Penske won the NASCAR All-Star race at North Wilkesboro with Joey Logano.

This comes on the heels of Penske winning the 2021 Daytona 500 with Austin Cindric, the 2022 Indycar championship with Will Power, the 2022 NASCAR championship with Joey Logano, the 2023 Indianapolis 500 with Josef Newgarden, the 2023 NASCAR championship with Ryan Blaney, and the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona with Dane Cameron, Matt Campbell, Felipe Nasr, and Josef Newgarden. Yeah...they're on a run and a half, aren't they?

Beyond that, Penske has been everywhere and done everything.

Formula One? Won the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix with John Watson.

Sports Cars? Well in addition to the aforementioned Daytona 24 win, their Porsche-Penske RS Spyder dominated LMP2 racing in the 2000s - you know how everyone talks about how dominant the Diesel Audi LMP1s of the 2000s were? Well at the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring, the Porsche-Penske RS Spyder LMP2 beat the Audi R10 TDI LMP1. Penske won, a privateer RS Spyder finished second, and the Audi had to settle for third. Damn.

That's not even to mention how the Penske Porsche 917-30 with its 5.4L Twin Turbo Flat-12 was so dominant in 1973 that it killed Can Am.

Three Daytona 500s, nineteen Indianapolis 500s, four NASCAR championships plus two in the Xfinity series, seventeen Indycar championships across USAC, CART, and Indycar, and a grand total of over 500 race wins makes for a pretty compelling case.

Pretty much the only major feather messing in Roger Penske's cap is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and, well, the Penske-Porsche partnership is at it again. The #6 Penske Porsche driven by Kevin Estre, Andre Lotterer, and Laurens Vanthoor has gone first-second-second in the first three WEC races of the season. That kind of form, plus some of the historic context I established for the Porsche-Penske partnership...are you really going to write them off ahead of Le Mans this year?

So yeah, Penske is a powerhouse of a team and they've been everywhere.

Including Australian Supercars of all things. Scott McLaughlin in the DJR Team Penske Ford took forty-eight wins across four years and won three championships in a row from 2018 to 2020, including the 2019 Bathurst 1000. He then went on to race in Indycar, has taken five wins so far, and just set a 233.220 four-lap average to take that pole position for the Indy 500.

Running the same classic Pennzoil yellow submarine livery as Rick Mears did in 1988. In the race itself, he'll wear a retro red and yellow suit of overalls modeled on the ones that Rick Mears wore in the 80s. If the stars align and Scott repeats what Rick did in 1988 and wins the Indy 500, then he'll have done something truly remarkable. He'll have cut his teeth in Australian supercars and come out of it one of the best Indycar drivers of the modern era.

Of course, his teammates will challenge him.

Will Power, who has more poles in Indycar than anyone else in history.

Josef Newgarden who won last year and has turned into a dominant force on ovals in Indycar.

Not to mention thirty other cars that want to wipe the smile off of Team Penske's face.

There is a lot of talk about Kyle Larson doing the double this year, racing the Indy 500 for Arrow McLaren and then racing the Coke 600 in Charlotte for Hendrick Motorsports, and he'll start fifth. That legitimately gives him one of the best chances of anyone to attempt the double. That being said, last year...Team Penske did the double as a team.

Josef Newgarden won the Indy 500, then Ryan Blaney won the Coke 600. Both of them went into the crowds to celebrate. If Kyle Larson wants to win the double, he'll be up against the mammoth that is Team Penske. Perhaps one of the greatest teams in all of motorsports, and they'll be facing him in both Indianapolis and Charlotte.

Let the games begin.

Sunday, May 26th, 2024 is going to be Motorsports Christmas. The Catalan Motorcycle Grand Prix, the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500, and the Coke 600. Two triple crown events, one of NASCAR's crown jewel, and the home race for about half of the MotoGP field, all in one day.

It's going to be a damn good day.

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porsche moments: winning 12 hours of bathurst 2024

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Matt Campbell, Laurens Vanthoor and Ayhancan Güven win the 2024 Bathurst 12 Hour

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"Look who joined the #AustralianGP paddock in Melbourne: The @.mercedesamg GT3 which set a new track record for GT cars at the prestigious Bathurst 12 Hour. 💯" - march 23, 2024 📷 @.mercedesamgmotorsport / instagram

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"Look who joined the #AustralianGP paddock in Melbourne: The @.mercedesamg GT3 which set a new track record for GT cars at the prestigious Bathurst 12 Hour. 💯" - march 23, 2024 📷 @.mercedesamgmotorsport / instagram

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BMW Team WRT kehrt nach Bathurst zurück

BMW Team WRT kehrt nach Bathurst zurück

Das BMW M Team WRT hat mit dem Bathurst 12 Hour (AUS) noch eine Rechnung offen – und kehrt 2024 zurück, um im zweiten Anlauf mit dem BMW M4 GT3 um den Sieg zu kämpfen. Die belgische Mannschaft tritt beim Saisonauftakt der Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC) am 18. Februar mit zwei Fahrzeugen und sechs BMW M Werksfahrern auf dem legendären Mount Panorama Circuit an. Valentino Rossi (ITA) ist nach…

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valeyellow46 Unposted from Australia 🇦🇺🦘

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12 HOURS OF BATHURST | Valentino Rossi in the WRT garage after his first stint.

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12 HOURS OF BATHURST | Valentino Rossi getting ready for his first stint.

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Storm showers plagued the latter half of the 2024 IntGTC Bathurst 12 Hour where the defending champion, SunEnergy1 Racing, fell just short of victory after their N°75 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo earned a second place podium at Mt Panorama Circuit AU-NSW.

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The morning light awakens Mt Panorama as Manthey Racing’s N°912 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) traverses the Australian prominence towards victory in the 2024 IntGTC Bathurst 12 Hour.