BMW back to Bathurst
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 30 December 2024
Once again the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour field will be bolstered by a pair of BMWs in the form of Team WRT.
The team racing factory backed M4 GT3s cars will return for a third attempt at Mount Panorama with the famous German manufacturer.
Whilst driver line ups were not announced, it is likely to feature MotoGP legend, turned GT racer Valentino Rossi.
Rossi has been the star of both Team WRT BMW Bathurst campaigns with his signature #46 and already said he “will be” at the summer classic.
Team WRT hopes to build on a strong 2024 race where it scored the Allan Simonsen Pole Award for the first time before ultimately finished fifth outright after running third within the final half-hour of the race.
The Belgian-based squad has represented BMW for several seasons and in 2024 clinched the overall Sprint and Endurance teams championship in the GT World Challenge finale’ in Jeddah.
Driver Charles Weerts was also crowned drivers’ champion in the Intercontinental GT Challenge after victory in the Indianapolis 8 Hour.
In the production car era BMW has won the Bathurst 12 Hour two times in 2007 and 2010, but is yet to record a podium in the GT3 chapter.
The 2025 Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour will be on January 31-February 2.
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