Monday, 9 February 2015

Some of the best motor racing you will ever see — final laps of the Bathurst 12 hour (video)

Almost at the end of 12 hours, the 20th safety car entered the track. Naturally, the front runners closed up, & when the safety car left the track with 4 minutes to go, this:

/ this year's year Bathurst 12 Hour race late safety car bunched up traffic long lengthy endurance race into four minute sprint race leader Matt Bell 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour record number of safety cars pull away establish a lead Audi R8 Laurens Vanthoor Bentley Continental GT3 safety car race pits fifteen minutes race Bell defensive line track Audi Vanthoor Bell twentieth safety car less than ten minutes race Porsche sand trap track recovery crew Bell battle race Vanthoor Aston Martin Stefan Mucke Nissan GT-R Katsumasa Chiyo win recovery crew sand-trapped car pits nineteenth 19th 20th final four minutes seven different makes of car top four finishers Aston Martin Audi GT-R Bell's Bentley battle checkered flag Vanthoor the esses down the hill Conrod Straight Hell corner Bentley went wide final corner dehydration exhaustion medical centre watching his mirrors LMP1 Florian Strauss Wolfgang Reip Nismo racing Gran Turismo /