Day Two at the Bathurst 12 Hour and it’s carnage!
Action aplenty at the second day; a full one hour qualifying session for the B12 competitors, crashes and bashes in the supports and hot conditions for the crowd.
The HQs delighted with some of the tightest racing seen yet; a photo finish was required with a bumper bar thickness separating the two cars involved, Stoopman and Wright. The gap? 0.058 of a second…..
Improved Production, a wonderfully diverse category, with cars from the 1970s to the 2000s, provided both great racing and some spectacular crash action. Gus Barbara got turned around near the Armor All bridge, nosing the HSV Coupe into the wall on the right while the car involved then slammed into the tail of the Gemini of Ashley Birks. Elsewhere, Griffin’s Bend saw a Commodore lunch an engine, spreading fluid across the track and causing some heartstopping moments for some of the other drivers including David Waldon in his Mazda 808 coupe.
Cam Worner, driving a XW Falcon in the Group N, came from virtually last on the grid to place second, in an inspired drive while a great tussle between Grant Wilson and Darryl Hansen came to a premature end, with Hansen retiring his Mustang.
Formula Vees did it again with a race long battle, Ryan Simpson holding out Ben Porter, Dan Reynolds and James Simpson.
