The numbers, facts and stats from the 2025 Meguiar's 12 Hour
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ANOTHER classic edition of Australia’s International Enduro delivered plenty of fast facts, stats and history across another compelling weekend of GT3 racing.
Here’s some of the key numbers to know following the 2025 running of the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour.
1-2: The result for Team WRT, just the third ever 1-2 result in Bathurst 12 Hour history. Mazda’s factory team achieved a 1-2 in 1993, while Audi Sport Team Joest did the job in 2011 on their Bathurst debut.
2:01.2760s – the second quickest qualifying lap in Bathurst 12 Hour history, set by Lucas Auer. Mercedes-AMG now have the two quickest ever laps in qualifying in Bathurst history.
2 – This was Team WRTs second Bathurst 12 Hour win, joining Maranello Motorsport and SunEnergy1 Racing as two-time race winners in the GT3 era. They are, however, the first to win it twice with different brands each year.
3 – The number of fastest laps now set by Chaz Mostert, the most in event history. Chaz set his time on lap 299.
3 – BMWs number of Bathurst 12 Hour wins, tying them with Mazda and Mercedes-AMG on top of the all-time leaderboard of 12-Hour winning marques. This was, however, their first of the GT3 era.
4– this is the third year in a row that the winning combination has started from fourth position on the grid. The winner of the Allan Simonsen Pole Award has now not won the race since 2017.
4:35 – the green flag run to the finish of the race following the ending of the last of seven Safety Car periods just after 13:10pm on Sunday afternoon. It’s the second longest green-flag stint without interruption in race history, with all 7 Safety Car periods coming in the first 7 Hours and 15 minutes of the race.
5 – Bathurst 12 Hour podiums achieved by both Jules Gounon and Luca Stolz, the equal most of all time. Gounon edges his nose in front by virtue he has achieved his in a row..
6 – The number of cars that finished on the lead lap, representing BMW, Mercedes-AMG, Ferrari and Porsche.
8 – BMW became the eighth different brand to win the race in the GT3 era, commencing in 2011. They join Audi, Mercedes-AMG, Ferrari, Nissan, McLaren, Porsche and Bentley on the honour roll.
9 – The number of cars below 2m02 seconds in the Pirelli pole battle. This is an event record and with an average lap time of 2m01.7489, it’s the quickest top-10 in Bathurst history.
10.24s – the winning margin, remarkably, just the second time since 2017 the winning margin has eclipsed 20 seconds.
14 – The number of lead changes throughout the race, between 6 different cars.
46 – Valentino Rossi is the first former MotoGP world champion to stand on the Bathurst podium!
77 – Percent, the finishing rate this year. It’s the second highest in event history and the third year in a row that more than 70% of those who started the event, finished it.
175 – Laps, the number led by the winning #32 BMW. It’s the second most in race history, eclipsed only by the winning Porsche from 2024. Their 78-lap stint in front from lap 126 was the second-longest leading stint in race history.
306 – The number of laps completed, the fourth time the race has passed 300 laps.
2,870 – The number of campsites sold this year, an event record. It’s estimated that more than 7,500 people camped on the mountain this year!
51,372 – the second largest event attendance in history, and more than 4,000 larger than last year
BMWs M4 GT3 became the first car powered by an Inline Six-cylinder engine to win the race since 2010. That year, a BMW 335i Turbo claimed victory in the race.
In the GT era, cars powered by Inline 6, Flat 6, V6 Turbo, V8 Turbo, V8 Normally Aspirated and NA V10 engines have won the race. The BMW win was the first for a turbocharged car since Bentley’s win in 2020.
At 15 years, this is the longest time between Bathurst 12 Hour wins for any manufacturer, while it’s also the first time since the very first GT3 race in 2011 that a brand has won the race without having claimed a podium finish beforehand.
BMW GT3 cars had made 11 GT3 race starts on the Mountain prior to the 2025 race, with a best finish of fourth.
BMWs GT3 race results (Prior to 2025):
4th – 2023: Van der Linde, Vanthoor, Weerts (WRT) 5th – 2024: Marciello, Martin, Rossi (WRT) 5th – 2019: Farfus, Mostert, Tomczyk (Schnitzer) 6th – 2023: Farfus, Martin, Rossi (WRT)
Three drivers from South Africa have now won the Bathurst 12 Hour, Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde joining their good friend Jordan Pepper as those from the Rainbow Nation to have claimed a Bathurst win.
The van der Linde bros are the third set of brothers to win a Bathurst enduro – and to do so in a BMW. Geoff and David Brabham won in 1997’s Super Touring Bathurst 1000, while Queensland brothers Grant and Iain Sherrin won the Production-Car based Bathurst 6 Hour in 2018.
The lead changed hands 11 laps from the finish when the Arise Racing GT Ferrari pitted for their final pit stop. It’s the closest to the end of the race that there has been a lead change since the 2019 event, when Matt Campbell assumed the lead with just over six laps remaining.
