CHAZ Mostert has cut laps at Belgium’s legendary Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps ahead of an anticipated return to the international GT scene.
Mostert hopped into the SunEnergy1 Mercedes-AMG GT3 during a two-day prologue at the circuit, in the build-up to the 2023 24 Hours of Spa which takes place next month (June 29 to July 2).
Led by Australian businessman and racer Kenny Habul, SunEnergy1 Racing has won the past two editions of the Bathurst 12 Hour.
Mostert’s outing comes just days after his participation in Supercars’ Tasmania SuperSprint, where he rebounded from a Saturday DNF to take a pair of sixths on Sunday.
Walkinshaw Andretti United team principal Bruce Stewart hinted at an imminent international opportunity for his drivers last Friday at Symmons Plains.
Specifically on Mostert, Stewart chuckled: “Mozzie, if he’s not in the car he’s semi-painful in between rounds so you have got to keep him in seat time.”
There’s another three weeks until the next round of the Repco Supercars Championship, the Darwin Triple Crown on June 16-18.
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Mostert has plenty of experience on the international GT3 stage, including outright pole position at the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2018 and 2022, and a class victory this year.
Prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, Mostert had a multi-year relationship with BMW headlined by a GTLM class win in the 2020 Daytona 24 Hour.
That came in a Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-entered M8 GTE shared with John Edwards, Augusto Farfus and Jesse Krohn and engineered by Geoff Slater, who is now a central figure at second-year Supercars squad PremiAir Racing.
International opportunities for Supercars drivers have been a hot topic of late, following news that Shane van Gisbergen will make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Chicago in July.
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Brodie Kostecki will also be part of an Erebus Motorsport delegation (also involving CEO Barry Ryan, #9 driver Will Brown, and Kostecki’s engineer George Commins and manager Nathan Cayzer) attending the June 4 NASCAR race at St Louis as guests of Richard Childress Racing.
Anton De Pasquale meanwhile is a confirmed starter in the Spa 24 Hour, with Grove Racing.
