Melbourne’s M-Motorsport will return to Mount Panorama Bathurst for the season-opening Bathurst 12 Hour in February, with the aim of winning the GT4 class with its pair of KTM X-Bows.
For Bathurst 2018 it will be two all-Australian teams behind the wheel, with a mix of experience and young talent – a hallmark of M-Motorsport’s time in GT racing.
Leading the #48 Interlloy entry will be Justin McMillan, although he won’t be joined this year by Glen Wood, the multiple Australian GT race winner leading the #49 entry, McMillan instead joined by Radical Australia front-runner David Crampton, multiple Australian Driver’s Champion Tim Macrow, and Reiter Engineering regular and former Reiter Young Stars champion, Caitlin Wood.
Glen Wood meanwhile will be joined by long-time friend and rival Trent Harrison, and internationally-based Australian, Cody Hill.
For McMillan, the move to two cars, and two Australian crews is a shift away from past seasons at Bathurst, where he has employed the services of drivers like Reiter Engineering’s international stars Tomas Enge and Reinhard Kofler, but whilst the international drivers won’t be there, the team will enjoy the full support of Reiter Engineering and KTM Sport for the event.
“Last year was immensely frustrating for us with a niggling oversight in the location of some of the electrics causing us to retire from a comfortable lead when we looked good for a debut win,” Justin McMillan lamented.
“We wanted to try something different this year with the driver lineup. I’ve been impressed by Glen [Wood] since he joined us and he’s shown great speed and maturity in the Lamborghini, and again at Bathurst last year in the KTM, the first time he’d raced the car, so he was a great advocate for trying some of the young drivers he’s competed with over the years, including Trent, Tim and Cody.”
Prior to heading to Mount Panorama, M-Motorsports’ KTMs turned laps at the traditional pre-Bathurst test at Phillip Island.
“I’m so impressed by the car, and also how easy it was to drive,” David Crampton admitted. “It’s a lot more physical than I expected, but immense fun, and it’s clear that M-Motorsport have a great handle on the setup of the car, because we were immediately into a good quick rhythm.”
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