HEART of Racing by SPS will enter to the 2024 Repco Bathurst 12 hour, making their debut in Australia's International Endurance race next year. The collaboration between German-based SPS Automotive Performance and the US-based Heart of Racing have entered a Mercedes-AMG GT3 into the February 16-18 event. British drivers Ian James and Ross Gunn will be joined by Spaniard Alex Riberas in the event that doubles as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Team principal Ian James contested all races for Heart of Racing by SPS last year and celebrated two class victories and a class podium in

PORSCHE Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia vice-champion Jackson Walls will continue his big year of Porsche racing, contesting the remainder of the 2023-24 Porsche Carrera Cup Middle East Championship with Lechner Racing. Walls will contest the remaining five rounds of the series driving an Objective Racing-supported Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car for the famous European squad, one that was home to Walls’ former Australian teammate Harri Jones this year. It was through Jones’ that the link to Lechner – who also promote the Middle East Series – came about. Walls’ finished a close runner-up in the Carrera Cup championship, his

CRAIG LOWNDES will headline an all-star squad as Scott Taylor Motorsport launches an outright attack on victory in the 2024 Repco Bathurst 12 Hour next February.   The well-known STM Mercedes AMG GT3 will be entered in the outright class in 2024, with a driving squad including Lowndes and Tickford Racing Supercars Championship drivers, Cameron Waters and Thomas Randle.   The shift to outright contention comes after running in class competition for the last two years, finishing 10th outright and first in class in 2022 driving a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car, and then running strongly before failing to finish last

KARL BATSON - HALL OF FAME INDUCTION VIDEO A LEGEND of the Porsche paddock will be the next inductee into Porsche Motorsport Australia’s hall of fame. Championship winning engineer, team manager, mechanic and noted Porsche legend Karl Batson was recognised for his 20-year contribution to Porsche Carrera Cup Australia at the annual Gala in Adelaide earlier this month. Batson, who battles the rare degenerative disease Friedrich’s Ataxia, will retire from full-time racing this year after 20 years in the Carrera Cup paddock and longer in Porsche Motorsport in general. In recent years, Batson has been the driving force behind Porsche Centre