The Secure Wealth Advisers BMW M4 of Simon Hodges, Jayden Ojeda and George Miedecke has won the 2024 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour after another thrilling conclusion to the production car marathon.
The race appeared to be in the hands of the Bruce Lynton Service BMW M3 of Beric Lynton/Tim Leahey/Will Davison until a gearbox issue for Davison inside the final half an hour helped deliver Ojeda the race win.
Ojeda and Hodges become the first back-to-back winners of the Bathurst 6 Hour, in what was the closest 1-2 and 1-2-3 finish in the history of the race.

It’s the second year in a row the 24-year-old talent from Sydney has had to charge from behind to win the Production Car classic.
The race was a thriller at the end as Ojeda fended off Supercars stars Davison and later Thomas Randle to claim the win.
Davison had a reoccurrence of the gearbox issue after the twelfth and final restart, with the Yellow Pages/Race for a Cure BMW M2 Competition of Michael Kavich/Ben Kavich/Thomas Randle sweeping by to claim second, with the Lynton M3 rounding out the podium.
The second half of the race began with the day’s seventh safety car period, as the Class D Beller Motorsport Toyota 86 expired on the exit of The Cutting in a big cloud of smoke on lap 68.
The short safety car period caught out the Megalife Ford Mustang Mach 1 Mustang of Jason Gommersall/Aaron Seton/Ben Gommersall, who lost a lap in the pits executing a driver change.
The next safety car period proved to be a pivotal moment in the race, as one of the key contenders for the outright victory was handed a penalty for passing under safety car conditions.
After the Class C Rent4Race BMW 330i of Cameron Laws/Elliot Cleary/Cody Gillis ground to a halt on the exit of Griffins Bend, the Cameron Crick/Dean Campbell BMW M2 Competition was given a fifteen-second penalty to be served at a green flag pit stop.
Crick then put the hammer down in an attempt to make up those fifteen seconds, engaging in a heated battle with reigning 6 Hour winner Jayden Ojeda as the two battled fiercely with well over two hours left to run.
Crick was on the verge of getting that fifteen second margin when the Class E RaceAway Track Time Mazda 3 of Scott Tidyman/Ben Shaw/Seth Gilmore tagged the fence at Forests Elbow and came to rest alongside Conrod Straight on lap 86.
Being unable to serve that penalty behind the safety car, Crick had to go about finding fifteen seconds on the chasing pack once again, but had to take their penalty with just over an hour to go.
The race appeared to come back to the DA Campbell Transport entry when the tenth safety car of the day was called on lap 101 when Ryder Quinn had a frightening crash after losing the rear of the Game Over Ford Mustang Mach 1 that was leading Class A2 going through Reid Park and spearing head on into the wall.
The DA Campbell Transport entry then went into limp mode during the resulting safety car, ultimately consigning the Crick/Campbell entry to 24th outright at the finish, nine laps off the pace.
Behind the outright podium in a remarkable fourth place was the Harding Performance Volkswagen Golf R of Cem Yucel/Iain Salteri, an entry that overcame a fifteen-second penalty early in the race in what was an otherwise faultless run.
What turned into a race of attrition in Class A2 honours was won by the Megalife Ford Mustang Mach 1 of Jason Gomersall/Aaron Seton/Ben Gomersall in fifth outright, having been in contention for an outright top five before falling off the lead lap.
The Statewide Oil Chevrolet Camaro of Chris Lillis/Josh Muggleton/Nathan Callaghan had looked set to claim Class A2 honours before an issue with their refuelling tower at their final stop meant no fuel could be put into the car.
Class B was won by the all-female crew of Karlie Buccini/Courtney Prince/Suzanne Palermo, with the Team Buccini Racing BMW 135i finishing a very creditable tenth outright.
Class C went to the Ares Group and Trackday Racing HSV VXR of Pieter Faulkner and Matt Slavin in fifteenth outright.
The battle for Class D was won by the Next Step Earthworks Toyota 86 of Mitchell Wooller and Tim Barwick in sixteenth outright.
And in Class E, an overnight rebuild by the 1800 Lasagne/LK Diesel Services team after a crash in Practice Three was rewarded with a class victory, as the Andrew Jackman/Mark Taubitz/Jamie Westaway combination finished in 27th outright.
The overall attendance for the 2024 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour was 18 033, the third-largest crowd in the history of the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.
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2024 RESULTS
Pos Class Class Pos Drivers Car Laps
1 X 1 S.Hodges/J.Ojeda/G.Miedecke BMW M4 123
2 X 2 B.Kavich/M.Kavich/T.Randle BMW M2 Coupe 123
3 X 3 B.Lynton/T.Leahey/W.Davison BMW M3 123
4 A1 1 C.Yucel/I.Salteri Volkswagen Golf R 123
5 A2 1 J.Gomersall/A.Seton/B.Gomersall Ford Mustang Mach 1 122
6 X 4 G.Sherrin/I.Sherrin BMW M4 122
7 A2 2 A.Levitt/L.King Mercedes-Benz C63 122
8 A1 2 M.Griffith/N.Morris Mercedes AMG A45 122
9 X 5 T.McLennan/D.Russell/S.Smollen BMW M4 120
10 B1 1 K.Buccini/C.Prince/S.Palermo BMW 135i 120
11 A2 3 S.Gore/S.Owen Lexus RC F 120
12 A2 4 C.Lillis/J.Muggleton/N.Callaghan HSV Chevrolet Camaro 120
13 B1 2 H.Inwood/G.Inwood/D.Inwood Subaru WRX Sti 119
14 B1 3 P.O’Donnell/M.Chahda/G.Mennell BMW 335i 118
15 C 1 P.Faulkner/M.Slavin Holden Astra HSV VXR 117
16 D 1 M.Wooller/T.Barwick Toyota 86 GTS 117
17 D 2 A.McMaster/D.Noble/D.Worrell BMW 125i 116
18 D 3 M.Thewlis/C.Heiniger Toyota 86 GTS 116
19 A2 5 G.Keam/J.Matthews Ford Mustang GT 116
20 D 4 R.Shaw/T.Shaw/D.Cox Mazda RX-8 Series 1 115
21 D 5 S.Rintoule/H.Robb/T.Bryant Toyota 86 GTS 115
22 B1 4 J.Fitzgerald/A.Zerefos/B.Howard BMW 135i 114
23 C 2 J.Rice/C.McKay Renault Megane RS 26 114
24 X 6 D.Campbell/C.Crick BMW M2 Coupe 114
25 C 3 C.Gunther/M.Randall BMW 130i 113
26 D 6 A.Buckley/J.Wood/J.Robotham Toyota 86 GTS 112
27 E 1 A.Jackman/M.Taubitz/J.Westaway Mazda 3 SP25 111
28 X 7 B.Giblin/B.Madden Holden HSV GTS 111
29 A1 3 K.Quinn/K.Yu/P.Blomqvist BMW M2 Coupe 109
30 D 7 N.Hanley/A.Duffin/L.Duffin Mazda RX-8 Series 1 109
31 C 4 J.Hay/P.Ansell/M.Learoyd Volkswagen Scirocco 107
32 C 5 P.Navin/N.Halstead Volkswagen Scirocco 107
33 D 8 R.Greaves/D.Goddard/S.Logan Toyota Camry 100
34 E 2 S.Tidyman/B.Shaw/S.Gilmore Mazda 3 SP25 95
35 E 3 T.Gardiner/C.Gardiner/W.Longmore Mazda 3 SP25 87
36 C 6 C.Laws/E.Cleary/C.Gillis BMW G20 82
37 A1 4 P.Buccini/J.Johnson/M.Von Rappard BMW M140i 63
DNF A1 D.Agathos/H.Hayek Subaru Impreza WRX S 111
DNF X M.Auld/B.Wilson/T.Everingham BMW M3 111
DNF A1 P.Barnett/P.Bray/T.McDonald BMW MM135i 110
DNF A2 A.Quinn/R.Quinn/G.Denyer Ford Mustang Mach 1 99
DNF B1 R.Shinkfield/E.Vosolo/C.Holdt BMW M3 98
DNF D B.Smith/R.Zoanetti/K.Andersen Honda Integra Type 97
DNF A2 P.Razum/B.Willmington/B.Vaughan Holden HSV R8 Clubsp 86
DNF D M.Dicinoski/G.Pol/S.Vaughan Volkswagen Golf GTi 72
DNF A1 O.Loiacono/L.Loiacono Mitsubishi Lancer EV 66
DNF D C.Beller/A.Brewer/E.Mezzasalma Toyota 86 GTS 60
DNF A1 S.Brooks/B.Riding/G.Chappel Mercedes Benz AMG A4 57
DNF A2 G.Cheney/P.Hadley/T.Cheney Ford Mustang Mach 1 48
DNF A1 G.Wakefield/I.Mewett Mitsubishi Lancer EV 37
DNF A2 H.Morrall/T.Mecklem Ford Mustang Mach 1 31
DNF X R.Rubis/J.Cox BMW M4 25
DNF A2 Lindsay Kearns (Qld) Ford Mustang GT 24
DNF E M.Powell/L.Moyse Mazda SP23 22
DNF C Troy Derwent (NSW) Holden Astra HSV VXR 18
DNF A2 Rylan Gray (NSW) Ford Mustang GT 16
DNF C Ian Cowley (Vic) Holden Astra HSV VXR 11
DNF A1 Ashley Wright (Vic) Ford Focus RS 2000 7
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