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Christina Nielsen and Yelmer Buurman join Griffith for Bathurst

  • Shahmir Khan
  • Jan 17, 2019
  • 2 min read

Black Falcon Mercedes AMG GT3 for Blancpain GT Series

The 12 Hours of Bathurst racer confirmed the two co-drivers for 2019 race.

The Team Nineteen Corp's Black Falcon Mercedes AMG GT3 will contest in the race next month with the multiple IMSA Champion Christina Nielsen and Yelmer Buurman joining Mark Griffith in the #19 car for the GT3 Pro/Am class.


“Christina and Yelmer are both professional drivers in their field and great additions to the team,” Griffith announced.


“I’m looking forward to working with them and putting on a good show this year. If things go to plan then we should be able to contend for a Pro-Am win and, like with any race at Bathurst, who knows where we will end up outright if we have a good day.”


Mark Griffith is a regular driver for Australian GT and will make his sixth 12-hour start this year."


He finished 14th overall last year and was runner-up in the IGTC Invitational class.

The Danish driver Christina Nielsen, aged 26, is a regular IMSA driver and the first female to win the championship in 2016 and 2017 with Scuderia Corsa in GTD. She also raced thrice in Le Mans.

Christina Nielsen with Ines Taittinger at 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans

She will also race for the Meyer Shanks Team next week at Daytona with an all-female lineup.


“I’m looking forward to working with them and putting on a good show this year. If things go to plan then we should be able to contend for a Pro-Am win and, like with any race at Bathurst, who knows where we will end up outright if we have a good day," She said.


Her compatriot, Allen Simonsen was a former lap record holder at Bathurst in 2013. He raced the same year at Le Mans, where he died. The pole position award at Mount Panorama, known as Allan Simonsen pole award, is named in his honour.


The third driver to complete the lineup is the 2018 Blancpain GT Champion Yelmer Buurman, who won the Blancpaon GT Series Endurance Cup with Maro Engel and Luca Stolz in the Black Falcon Mercedes.

Yelmer Buurman and Lee Mowle win the Round 3 of 2018 British GT at Rockingham

Team Nineteen will also enter a pair of Ginetta GT4 cars this year, with driver lineup soon to be announced.


 

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