Last year’s GT World Challenge Australia winner set a 2:05.093s in the #183 car, which was a last-minute entry in this year’s race.
The second Bronze-only practice ran incident-free, making for a clean day with all 22 cars coming away unscathed.
Talbot’s effort bodes well for the Jamec Racing team after setting the second quickest time in Practice 3 earlier in the day.
Behind Talbot was the 75 Express Mercedes-AMG driven by two-time Bathurst 12 Hour race winner Kenny Habul, who will be joined by Luca Stolz and three-time winner Jules Gounon.
Yasser Shahin was the first of the Pro-Am cars in third. He wound up 1.357s adrift of the blindingly quick Bronze-rated Talbot.
Hometown hero Brad Schumacher ended his first day in the #36 Arise Racing Ferrari 296 fourth overall and 1.689s off the pace.
Practice 5 for all drivers gets underway early on Saturday morning. The 60-minute session begins at 8:35am AEDT before Practice 6 at 10:25am.
Results: Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour Practice 4 (Bronze drivers)
Pos | Num | Team | Drivers | Car | Class | Lap |
1 | 183 | Jamec Racing / Team MPC | Liam Talbot/Broc Feeney/Ricardo Feller | Audi R8 LMS EVO II | PRO | 2:05.0930 |
2 | 75 | 75 Express | Kenny Habul/Jules Gounon/Luca Stolz | Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO | PRO | 2:05.9560 |
3 | 91 | The Bend Motorsport Park | Yasser Shahin/Sam Shahin/Laurin Heinrich/Morris Schuring | Porsche 911 GT3R (99 | PAM | 2:06.4500 |
4 | 36 | Arise Racing GT | Jaxon Evans/Brad Schumacher/Elliott Schutte/Alessio Rovera | Ferrari 296 GT3 | PAM | 2:06.7820 |
5 | 27 | Heart of Racing by SPS | Ross Gunn/Zacharie Robichon/Ian James | Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO | BRO | 2:07.2040 |
6 | 4 | Grove Racing | Stephen Grove/Brenton Grove/Fabian Schiller | Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO | BRO | 2:07.8480 |
7 | 44 | Geyer Valmont Racing | Sergio Pires/Marcel Zalloua/Scott Andrews | Audi R8 LMS EVO II | PAM | 2:07.9680 |
8 | 47 | Supabarn Supermarkets | James Koundouris/Theo Koundouris /David Russell/Luke Youlden | Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO | SIL | 2:08.1770 |
9 | 93 | Wall Racing | Adrian Deitz/Tony D’Alberto/Grant Denyer/Brendon Leitch | Lamborghini Huracan | SIL | 2:08.5000 |
10 | 9 | Hallmarc / Team MPC | Marc Cini/Lee Holdsworth/Dean Fiore | Audi R8 LMS EVO II | BRO | 2:09.1620 |
11 | 50 | KTM Vantage Racing | David Crampton/Trent Harrison /Glen Wood | KTM XBow GT2 | I | 2:14.0970 |
12 | 24 | Method Motorsport | Anthony Levitt/Jake Santalucia/Josh Buchan | McLaren Artura GT4 | GT4 | 2:20.2650 |
13 | 19 | Nineteen Corporation | Mark Griffith/Adam Christodoulou/Daniel Bilski | Mercedes-AMG GT4 | GT4 | 2:21.0730 |
14 | 25 | Method Motorsport | Tom Hayman/Paul Buccini/Ryan Sorensen | McLaren Artura GT4 | GT4 | 2:21.0730 |