Qualifying for the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour has been accomplished, with Valentino Rossi qualifying twelfth for his third try on the race.
Rossi, who’s now into his third season as a manufacturing unit BMW driver after making his maiden full-time GT3 marketing campaign with Audi in 2022, was eighth on the grid for final 12 months’s race, during which he acquitted himself properly and was capable of run among the many entrance working drivers in what is among the premier occasions within the sportscar racing calendar.
The Italian is paired with Charles Weerts – who was driving the #32 BMW ultimately 12 months’s Bathurst race when it made contact with a lapped automobile – and Raffaele Marciello, whose important duties this 12 months are within the World Endurance Championship with BMW’s M V8 Hybrid LMDh automobile, this 12 months.
This represents a change to final 12 months for Rossi, who was alongside Marciello and Maxime Martin in 2024’s version of the Bathurst 12 Hour.
Additional up the grid, it was the Mercedes of Maximilian Goetz, Lucas Auer, and Jayden Ojeda who set pole place within the last 10-car shootout.
Broc Feeney, Ricardo Feller, and Liam Talbot had been second of their Audi R8, entered within the Professional-Am class; whereas Maro Engel, Maxime Martin, and Mikael Grenier’s Mercedes, and the WRT BMW teammates of Rossi, Marciello, and Weerts – Sheldon van der Linde, Kelvin van der Linde, and Augusto Farfus – had been fourth.
The 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour will get underway at 05:45 native time (AEDT) on 2 February; or 18:45 UTC on 1 February.