Intercontinental GT Challenge
28-car field for 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour
Bathurst 12 Hour organisers have announced a 28-car field for the 2023 running of the event.
Andrew van Leeuwen
Edited: Jan 10, 2023, 7:09 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Having been scaled back to a Pro-Am race last year, the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge returns to full strength in 2023 with the summer date revived along with the return of all-Pro GT3 line-ups.
That has seen an upswing in entries, with eight more cars locked in for this year's race compared to 2022.
There is also a significant shift in the amount of overseas entries, with teams and cars coming from Germany, Hong Kong, Belgium and the US.
A full suite of drivers is yet to be unveiled with some teams yet to confirm who will form their line-ups.
Twenty-two of the 28 cars will be split across the three GT3 classes, including nine AMGs – an event record for a single GT3 model.
There are eight Pro entries in the field including the three teams that filled the podium last year - SunEnergy1 Racing, Craft-Bamboo Racing and Triple Eight Race Engineering.
Those three AMGs will be joined by another Mercedes from GruppeM Racing, while Melbourne Performance Centre will field a sole Pro Audi.
Team WRT will field a pair of BMWs in the all Pro-class, one which will feature MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, while a sole Pro Porsche will be run by Manthey EMA, a German-Aussie alliance.
Pro-Am entries will come from the likes of MPC (Audis), Earl Bamber Motorsport (Porsches), Scott Taylor Motorsport (Mercedes), Volante Rosso Motorsport (Mercedes) and a second Triple Eight AMG.
The likes of Volante Rosso and MPC will also run cars in the Silver GT3 class while there were ultimately no takers for the new Bronze class.
As well as the 22 GT3 cars there are six Invitational entries in the field, including one Carrera Cup car, a GT4 entry and a pair of V8-powered MARC cars.
The 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour will take place on February 3-5.
Start action
Photo by: Edge Photographics
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Factory support for Wall Lamborghini at Bathurst
Next article Porsche names factory trio for Bathurst 12 Hour tilt
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Andrew van Leeuwen
Toby Price explains 'unfortunate' Mitsubishi split
Dakar
Dakar
Dakar
Oct 13, 2023
Toby Price explains 'unfortunate' Mitsubishi split
Supercars parity review begins
Supercars
Supercars Oct 11, 2023
Supercars parity review begins
SRO set for bigger Australian GT presence
GT World Challenge Australia
GT World Challenge Australia Oct 11, 2023
SRO set for bigger Australian GT presence
Latest news
“I was getting beat up” – How Daniel Ricciardo burned out on ‘humiliating’ F1 return
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1 54 min
“I was getting beat up” – How Daniel Ricciardo burned out on ‘humiliating’ F1 return
Myers Riley Motorsports adds Andretti alongside returning Fraga for 2027 IMSA GTD campaign
IMSA
IMSA IMSA 1 h
Myers Riley Motorsports adds Andretti alongside returning Fraga for 2027 IMSA GTD campaign
Las Vegas GP reveals neon sign-inspired trophy design
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Las Vegas GP
1 h
Las Vegas GP reveals neon sign-inspired trophy design
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe