Defending champs raring to go at Bathurst.
Beric Lynton and Tim Leahey won the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour the last time it was run in 2019 in their BMW. It performed faultlessly and took the win convincingly.
This year the game has got a little harder with a massive 64 cars entered. Yes, not all of them are fighting for the outright win but passing slower cars has always had an element of danger attached to it that could change the complexity of the race quickly.
“The team has expanded since 2019 and I’ve built a few more cars” stated Lynton. “For us production car racing works well with our BMW Service Centre on the Gold Coast. We can win on Sunday and service on Monday.” He also went on to say.
Car #1 is the 2019 winning BMW M3 run by Bruce Lynton BM Service. It’s perfect for the Mount Panorama event. Nice power delivery coupled with BMW’s legendry handling.
Driven by team principle Beric Lynton and partnered by Orange based car dealer Tim Leahey, they are looking to go back-to-back.
Car #99 will be driven by the Ellery family. Experienced competitor Steve has been lured back into a race car after a long layoff. He will be partnered by his two sons Dalton and Tristan.
“I’ve always wanted to race with my boys and production car racing gives me that opportunity. Can’t wait” stated Steve Ellery.
Car #97 is a customer car to be driven by Shane Smollen, Shane van Gisbergen & Rob Rubis.
“van Gisbergen is clearly on his game winning in everything he puts his backside in” stated Smollen.
Experienced Smollen & Rubis will put on a good show and expect a strong result come the end of the 6-hour battle
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Recently the team took two cars to Sydney Motorsport Park as a warmup to the 6 Hour. We did driver changes where other didn’t and got to iron out any bugs in our procedures. We went onto winning the weekend in car #1 which was fantastic for team morale” Lynton went on to say.
Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour event is on this Easter weekend commencing Friday with the 6 Hour race Sunday. Check your local guides for LIVE TV schedule on the Seven Network.
Spectators are more than welcome and pit tours can be arranged.
