15 Cars to Contest Sydney Motorsport Park Round

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A total of 15 cars are set to contest this weekend’s second round of the GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS season at Sydney Motorsport Park.

It marks a reduction of one car from the final entry list for the curtain-raising double-header at Phillip Island earlier this month, with the entry made up of ten Pro-Am cars vying for overall honors, four Am entries and a single car in the Trophy category.

Joining the field at SMP are the No. 44 Tigani Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo of Thomas Randle and Marcel Zalloua, announced last weekend, and the Trophy class No. 24 Melbourne Performance Centre Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo of Gary Higgon and Matthew Stoupas.

The most notable absence of the 16 cars that contested the Phillip Island round is the sole Porsche 911 GT3 R in the field, the No. 911 EMA Motorsport car of Dorian Boccolacci and Shane Smollen.

Also missing are the No. 96 Mach 1 Engineering Mercedes-AMG and the 111 Racing Mercedes-AMG.

It leaves a total of five manufacturers represented in the field, with Audi the best represented manufacturer with seven cars.

Broc Feeney stays on for a second weekend with the Kelso Electrical-backed MPC Audi he shares with Brad Schumacher, with Feeney due to rotate in the seat with fellow Supercars star Will Brown over the course of the season.

Practice and pre-qualifying are due to take place on Friday ahead of qualifying proper on Saturday, with the opening race taking place under the floodlights on Saturday evening. The second race will take place during daylight on Sunday.

Arise Racing GT Ferrari duo Jaxon Evans and Elliott Schutte lead the drivers’ standings on 41 points after a win and a third place at Phillip Island, 13 points ahead of Declan Fraser and Liam Talbot in the Volante Rosso Aston Martin.

Feeney and Schumacher, who also scored a win at Phillip Island, are a further point back in third.