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Record-breaking Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour delivers
A HI-TEC OILS Bathurst 6 Hour race that set record after record rounded out a remarkable Easter long weekend at Mount Panorama.
The event announced a three-day Event Attendance record of 20,471 people – more than 2,000 larger than the previous best.
The record attendance comes following a packed on-track program that featured 326 entries and also more camping at the venue than ever before, with more than 600 campground sites sold this year.
On-track, the race itself was a thriller with the winning combination the first in a major Bathurst endurance race for a team based in Bathurst; the D.A Campbell Transport-backed outfit operated from the city and owned by proud Bathurstian, Dean Campbell.
The 2025 race saw the closest finish in Bathurst 6 Hour history, Cameron Crick beating Jayden Ojeda to the line by a tiny final margin of just 0.8287s.
Starting 66th, Campbell and Crick charged through the field and claimed victory from the lowest starting position in Bathurst endurance race history – the previous best also set in the six hour in 2022, when Tom Sargent and Cameron Hill won from 63rd.
Hodges, Ojeda and Miedecke fell agonisingly short of claiming a stunning Bathurst three-peat however became just the second team in race history to score three consecutive Bathurst 6 Hour podium finishers.
The 69 starters is the largest ever for an endurance race held at Mount Panorama, eclipsing the 63-car record also set by the event in 2017.
70 cars were due to start however the #111 BMW was forced to withdraw close to the race start with unresolvable electrical issues.
73 cars completed at least one lap across the weekend; The 72 originally entered and for the first time in race history a reserve car that was allowed to compete following the withdrawal of another competitor on Saturday morning.
50 cars finished the race, equal to the most in race history. 11 different cars led the race outright throughout the six hours – a race record – while the 21 lead changes were also the most ever seen in Bathurst 6 Hour history.
Cameron Crick’s stunning last-lap record of 2m21.8817s smashed the previous benchmark by nearly two seconds, and was also the first time in Bathurst 6 Hour history that a lap record has been set on the final lap.
The outright podium finish by Jason Gomersall, Aaron Seton and Todd Hazelwood was the first for a non Class X car since 2019 and makes this year’s race the first that BMW have not locked out the entire outright podium since the same year.
In the class battles, Jason Gomersall and Aaron Seton backed up their 2024 A2 victory this year, sharing with Todd Hazelwood. It’s the fifth straight win for the Ford Mustang in class but the first time one has reached the outright Bathurst podium.
Karly Buccini and Courtney Prince also defended their Class B1 win, Tabitha Ambrose standing on the Bathurst podium for the first time aboard the Team Buccini BMW 340i.
All other classes saw first-time winners, including Patrick Navin and Nathan Halsted who claimed Class C aboard their VW Scirocco R.
In Class A1, the Waltec Motorsport BMW M2 claimed victory with Cameron Laws, Cody Gillis and Jack Webster behind the wheel, while B2 saw the #6 Quest Apartments BMW steered by Brent Howard, Adam Gosling and Tim Wolfe claim victory for the first time.
Class D went to Toyota for the sixth consecutive year with The Racing Academy’s Isaac Demellweek and Romeo Nasr taking victory by a lap after a day-long battle.
In Class E, RaceAway Track Time claimed the win with Ronin Lindenmayer, Kym DeBritt and Phil Alexander taking the victory. Just three of the eight classes were won from pole position.
In qualifying trim, six class records were re-set including the outright one; Jayden Ojeda’s 2m19.5354 the quickest ever by a Production Car at Mount Panorama.
The Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour will return to Mount Panorama across the 2026 Easter Long Weekend, on April 3-5.