KENNY HABUL JOINS AUSTRALIAN GT FIELD FOR GRAND PRIX

Kenny Habul joins the Australian GT field – Photo: InSyde Media

Ex-pat Australian Kenny Habul is a notable inclusion to the CAMS Australian GT Championship field for the Australian Grand Prix round at Melbourne’s Albert Park.

The reigning Intercontinental GT Challenge Bronze Driver’s Champion, will reunite with the  Scott Taylor Motorsport prepared Mercedes AMG GT3 that he ran at the Bathurst 12 Hour for the Australian GT opener.

Despite his amateur status, Habul has immense experience, with a career that has spanned more than 20 years in a variety of categories from Australian Formula Ford through to NASCAR in the USA.

His 2018 Bronze Driver’s title in the Intercontinental GT Challenge came off the back of podiums at the Bathurst 12 Hour and Spa 24 Hour races ahead of a victory in the Suzuka 10-Hour in Japan, before closing out the season with a fourth-placed finish at Laguna Seca to comfortably claim the series victory.

It’s expected that the Grand Prix won’t be Habul only outing in Australian GT, with plans for the Mercedes regular to contest both the Gold Coast and Sandown sprint events as well.

Habul won’t be the only driver campaigning a Scott Taylor Motorsport [STM] AMG though, with returning Australian Endurance Champion Max Twigg jumping back behind the wheel of the WM Waste machine for the Sprint rounds. 2018 team-mate Tony D’Alberto will then re-join Twigg for the Australian Endurance Championship events to defend their 2018 title.

The third member of the Mercedes-AMG squad for the Australian Grand Prix is arguably the category’s most experienced campaigner – Eggleston Motorsport driver Peter Hackett, the Melbourne-local having made his AGP debut in 2010, a venue where he has a number of podium finishes to his name, although unlike Max Twigg (two wins in 2010), he is yet to grace the top step at Albert Park.

The Australian Grand Prix event will begin for the Australian GT teams on Thursday, 14 March, with two qualifying session ahead of the first of four 25-minute races, one for each day of the event.

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