Opening Shot: Bathurst, Australia

Bathurst, Australia

It’s dawn at New South Wales’s Mount Panorama Circuit as the Tigani Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo speeds towards the rising sun in the opening stages of the Bathurst 12 Hours.

Driven by the all-Aussie crew of David Russell, Luke Youlden and the Koundouris brothers James and Theo, the Tigani Merc wouldn’t trouble the podium. But it was a solid result for Belgian team WRT whose BMW M4 GT3s finished 1-2 – the winning trio consisting of Augusto Farfus and South African siblings Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde. Valentino Rossi shared driving responsibilities in the car behind.