I saw this and I thought "that's a name I haven't heard of in a long time!" - turns out he retired from motor racing in February 2024. What an odd choice for a new Formula One team's development driver lol

Can we all just pause and admire this picture though?! You'd think it'd scrape the bottom of the car, how rough that would actually be on the driver straddling those kerbs and knowing that this is the last chicane on the Nürburgring GP circuit, he's set the run up to the last corner perfectly 🔥

I took so many photos at Bathurst on my phone, I still haven't even begun to go through them all properly haha. Once I get my sleep schedule back on track and work calms down a little bit, I'll share a bit more of the amazing weekend to be had at the 12 Hour!

I've seen this incident a few times now from this angle, and I think van der Linde had a much larger role to play in this than I first thought ...

ONE LAP TO GO PRESENTED BY CREDIT ONE BANK!

Just a quick reminder that the 888 Mercedes started in 30th seemingly 37 hours ago. It now leads with half an hour to go!

Could this moment decide the race? Kelvin van der Linde passes Jules Gounon on pit exit to take the lead!

4:50pm - I don't know how I'd go spectating a 24 hour race, I'm absolutely exhausted and there's still an hour to go 🥱

Noooooo come on Earl 😭. The Corvette joins the Mustang in American GT3 purgatory

3:47pm - under two hours to go!

Sad? Depressed? Here, have a Lamborghini on its rev limiter

After that crash and the subsequent red flag, I'm kinda in the mood to just go back to the hotel now, the vibe and life has been sucked out of this race

Holy shit what happened? I'm not anywhere near a tv screen or the circuit audio??

The Corvette on its safety car speed limiter sounds nasty and vicious, it's delicious

1:47pm - I'm getting tired and slightly delirious now.

Add the Audi to the racecar graveyard, joining the Mustang and the KTM. 🫡

Oooohhh the 46 BMW just whacked the pit exit cone and is in the middle of the racetrack

I can feel a few spots of rain as I'm sat down at turn one ...

12:30pm - after the shuttle bus driver thought he was Laurin Heinrich with how late he was braking, we've made it to Hell Corner. Started at the bottom, still here 🤪

That looks like a lot of rain in the very background, the sun has disappeared and I'm cold again 😅

11:31am - rolling around behind the safety car. Nearly time to venture back down the mountain for the last half of the race

The Penrith/Grove Racing Mercedes has had its left indicator on for like the last half an hour - very rare for a driver of a premium European sports car to use any form of turning signal

Ricardo Feller isn't human, is he?

How did the 46 BMW gain so much time on the JMR Corvette? Was there a problem for Catsburg in the stops?

Seen at the entrance to the campgrounds. TOO SOON 😤😥

9:36am - the current top four

Charles Weerts' driver abbreviation is WEE, so when I see his name appear in the windscreen as he goes down the mountain, I've let out an audible WEEEEEEEEEEEE each time

The Tsunami RT Porsche is getting wider and wider at Forest's Elbow each lap and is getting closer and closer to damaging that beautiful livery

Me looking at the #32 BMW pass me on the entrance to Forest's Elbow:

7:03am - the sun has woken up

There's currently a heap of BMW Motorsport executives walking down the literal dirt goat track towards Forest's Elbow in their dress pants and pristine white shoes lol

Craft-Bamboo Racing are in there somewhere ...

The McLaren GT4 essentially has half the track to themselves and are hot lapping, with the sun rising and cool breeze, whoever is driving that car must be having the time of their lives!

6:34am. Thank goodness we're back racing, because my fingers are frozen from not having moved for the last half an hour

The Mustang has been my favourite car to see rip down the mountain this weekend, I'm gonna be sad for the rest of the day 😥

Nooooooooo not the Mustang 😭😭😭

5:18am at Skyline and the Esses. I've got shivers up my spine and goosebumps, and it's only the sighting lap to the grid lol

Where the world comes to race ... at 4:54am!

The things we do for car racing ... Time to go to Bathurst again!!

Roses are red, Ford Mustang GT3s driven by Broc Feeney are blue, Happy Valentine's Day to you and your boo 😍

During a break between cars on track, made a visit to the National Motor Racing Museum, just on the outside of Murray's Corner. Let's do a little tour, shall we? An🧵...

BMW clearly stands for Big Massive Wang, as some budding artist has illustrated 😂

Through the trees and down the mountain.

Qualifying time at Bathurst! Gonna watch from the Esses/Dipper/Forest's Elbow before going back to the bottom of the mountain for the rest of the day. I've changed my tune on the Aston Martin - it sounds like it's angry at the world, just like all racing engines should sound

Just walked past a fully grown Australian adult man here at Mount Panorama wearing a Trump MAGA hat ... like, why? Just, why? Tell me you're an idiot, without telling me you're an idiot challenge - level impossible.

The Toyota GR Supra Supercar lives and breathes! Looks great, too

I'm on 44% phone battery at 11:27am and I do not have a power bank with me, boy oh boy my poor Google Pixel 8 can't handle this much 😂

The new Mustang GT3 livery just absolutely pops in person, the blue is sensational

Hellooooo @theheartofracing.bsky.social 💙

There's a little bump on the left hand side just as the drivers are about to turn into the right handed which unsettles the car, something which I've never noticed before