Bathurst's most successful team returns in 2025

FOLLOWING two wins and a narrow runner-up finish last year, the most successful combination in Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour history are back in 2025.

Kenny Habul’s SunEnergy 1 Racing team return for a fourth bid at the Bathurst crown they won for the first time in 2022 and then again, in more dramatic fashion, a year later.

The ex-pat Aussie will be joined again by Jules Gounon and Luca Stolz with the trio having achieved seven Bathurst victories and a remarkable 12 podium finishes between them.

Following their victories in 2022 and 2023, a quest for a remarkable third consecutive win fell short by just 2.4 seconds in last year’s Meguiar’s 12 Hour, a chasing Jules Gounon unable to hunt down Matt Campbell’s Porsche that would eventually win.

Habul’s two wins came following a runner-up finish on his 2018 race debut, again driving a Mercedes-AMG GT3.

Though now living in the United States, Habul owns property on the iconic Mount Panorama circuit and was last year named as an ‘official ambassador’ of the city by the Bathurst Regional Council.

Stolz was third that same year driving a Porsche for Black Swan Racing and also finished fifth in 2020 driving for Craft Bamboo Racing, the 29-year-old German having finished in the top five in five of his six Bathurst starts.

He was a race winner for Mercedes-AMG in the DTM Championship last year alongside his extensive long-distance racing commitments with the brand.

Gounon, a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Spa classic, remains the race’s only three-time winner, the only driver to win the race on three consecutive occasions and has finished in the podium in every race held since 2020.

He will split his time between an ongoing Mercedes-AMG program this year and an expanded program competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Alpine.

Habul’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 - one of eight entered in the race this year - will again be fielded by Habul’s own 75 Express team, founded in late 2023.