The most successful combination in Bathurst 12 Hour history is back for the 2025 race, with confirmation that Kenny Habul and his SunEnergy 1 Racing team will gun for a third victory next month.
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 its victories in 2022 and 2023, SunEnergy 1’s quest for a third consecutive win fell short by just 2.4 seconds in last year’s 12 Hour, a chasing Gounon unable to hunt down Matt Campbell’s Manthey 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 named as an ‘official ambassador’ of the city by the Bathurst Regional Council last year.
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 on the podium in every race held since 2020.
He will split his time between an ongoing Mercedes-AMG programme 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.
