Bathurst 12 Hour: Van Gisbergen Mercedes leads after first quarter

The opening salvo of the Intercontinental GT Challenge round was headed by polesitter Maro Engel’s GruppeM Mercedes ahead of the similar Triple Eight machine started by Maxi Gotz, the Manthey Porsche with Thomas Preining at the wheel, Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Mercedes and Augusto Farfus’s WRT BMW M4.
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