MOTORSPORT: Mostert conquers The Mountain again

BMWs and Mitsubishi EVOs prevail in Bathurst’s new six-hour enduro, as Porsche dominates WEC warm-up

Five months after the big crash that ruled him out of a Bathurst 1000 title defence with a broken leg and wrist and knee injuries, Chaz Mostert has re-conquered Mt Panorama.

Mostert and mate Nathan Morcom, both turning 24 in the next few days, have won the new Bathurst Six-Hour.

Two BMWs and three Mitsubishis filled the top five spots in the new production car enduro over Easter.

The BMW E92 335i that 2014 Bathurst 1000 winner Mostert and Morcom drove completed 125 laps or 776km in the six hours.

“Great to be back at this place and even better to be on the top step of the podium with my good mate @nathanmorcom,” Mostert tweeted.

The only other car to finish on the same lap was the BMW E82 135i of Iain and Michael Sherrin and David Ayres.

That gave the BMWs a quinella in Class B1 for high-performance forced induction cars.

The best lap of the 6.213km circuit by the 335i was 2:28.829 seconds – about 20 seconds slower than a top V8 Supercar in the 1000.

However, the fastest lap of the Six-Hour was 2:28.533 by Garth Walden in the Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG that led a lot of the early running but was out after 3½ hours.

One lap behind, amid some controversy, were the Evo IX of David Wall and John Bowe and the Evo X of Michael Caine and Gerry Murphy which headed Class A1 for extreme performance cars with forced induction.

Wall and Caine collided at Murray’s Corner inside the last few minutes of the race and, after getting themselves out of the gravel, limped to the chequered flag with heavy damage, blaming each other for the contact.