Audi with six official drivers at the Bathurst 12 Hours

Audi will field seven cars and six official drivers at the 12 Bathurst 2023 Hours.

Published on 20/01/2023 à 14:40

Valentin GLO

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Audi with six official drivers at the Bathurst 12 Hours

Audi with six official drivers at Bathurst (Photo: Audi)

Audi Sport drivers Mattia Drudi, Christopher Haase and Patric Niederhauser will share an Audi Sport Team MPC R8 LMS in the professional category of the 12 Bathurst 2023 Hour and will aim to take the brand's fourth victory overall.

Ricardo Feller and Christopher Mies will be entered in the Pro-Am classification of The Bend Motorsport Team MPC. The two Audi Sport drivers will support Australian privateer Yasser Shahin, who has won GT World Challenge Australia driving an Audi R8 LMS for the past two years. Frédéric Vervisch will be the sixth Audi Sport driver to travel to Australia and will take part in the race in the Fuchs Lubricants Racing of Schumacher Motorsport/Premier Racing with Brad Schumacher and James Golding.

Team Supabarn MPC, winner of the Am classification at Bathurst last year, will be back on the grid with brothers James and Theo Koundouris as well as Dave Russell and Jonathan Webb, as will Hallmarc Team MPC with Marc Cini, Dean Fiore, Lee Holdsworth. Two more Audi GT3 race cars for Andrew Fawcet, Daniel Gaunt, Dylan O’Keeffe (Myland Team IMS) and Liam Talbot, Fraser Ross (Team MPC) will complete the field of seven Audi R8 LMS racing.

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Valentin GLO

Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.

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