There’s more than just the Bathurst 6 Hour Easter weekend when it comes to the support categories here at Mount Panorama. We’ll start off with the Australian Production Cars & GT4 Australia combined category (40 minute races) with such a close rivalry between Begg & Quinn for the top spot. Quinn had the first say with the opening race win from pole position in the No.101 Porsche 911 718. However, Begg showed excellent fight back that saw him win Races 2 & 3 in the No.19 Mercedes AMG GT. Meanwhile, Mark Griffith always finished P3 (P4 outright & 3rd in class in Race 1) in the Mercedes while team-mate Grant Denyer seemed to be unlucky (DNF/Parked Race 2 & DNS Race 3) in the No.55 Ginetta G55 also prepped by Griffith.
Then in the APC, all three races have been clean sweeped by the Sheerin Racing family in the No.27 BMW M4 with Chris in Races 1 & 3 – including an 3rd place outright in Race 1 even though he wanted to win them all at one stage before being outpaced by two GT4 cars – as he couldn’t do Race 2 due to main event qualifying where his brother Iain has been an excellent fill-in with the Race 2 win.
Moving onto the 1 hour World Challenge races now, Liam Talbot & Max Hofer has been outstanding from start to finish in the No.65 Shannon’s Insurance Audi R8. They were too good during the 1st instalment before Talbot got away for the winning move patiently past Malaysian prince Jonor Ibrahim (No.88 Triple 8 Mercedes AMG alongside Supercars regular Broc Feeney) with only 3 1/2 mins left in Race 2.
And shoutout to local Brad Schumacher, who also clean sweeped the Am class by himself against a few other cars who do have co-driver pairings, in the No.55 Audi R8 for his own Motorsport team.
Since it’s a non-points round, the main APC/GT4 Australia season kicks off on May 12-14 at Phillip Island in conjunction with the next SpeedSeries round. Meanwhile, the GT Challenge cars head off to Barbagello in WA as part of the next Supercars round activities on April 28-30 before rejoining SpeedSeries & APC/GT4 at Phillip Island a few weeks afterwards.
