Local team M Motorsport has finished Friday at the Repco Bathurst 12 hour at the top of the timesheets following the second Bronze Only Drivers practice session.
Garth Walden clocked a 2m 05.331s to set the pace from the Wash It/Jamec Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo 2 of Liam Talbot, who was 0.197s off the pace.
Local Bathurst driver Brad Schumacher was third in the KFC/Jamec Racing Audi ahead of the SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG of Kenny Habul and Yasser Shahin driving the Manthey EMA Porsche.
There were no interruptions in the session completing a clean day of running, which didn’t come at a cost to fast times. The threat of rain remained throughout the session, however apart from a minor shower the session was run in dry conditions.
Outside of the top five, Prince Jefri Ibrahim continued his strong pace in sixth as he embarks this season on contesting multiple rounds of the Intercontinental GT Challenge with Triple Eight Race Engineering.
Valmont Racing’s Sergio Pires followed in another Audi from Heart of Racing’s Ian James, Adrian Deitz in the Wall Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo and the Supabarn Supermarkets Mercedes-AMG of Theo Koundouris completed the top 10 GT runners.
Marc Cini was 12th outright in the Hallmarc Audi to complete the GT3 entrants.
Action at the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour continues tomorrow with two practice sessions, Qualifying and Top 10 Shootout starting at 8:05am AEDT.