Bathurst 12 Hour – How Mercedes sees and uses this great race

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We have just seen the running of the Bathurst 12 hour car race. It is for GT and production cars.
The great thing is that there are a lot of different makes and models in the field.
This year the top ten places were filled by eight different makes of vehicles including McLaren, Bentley, Audi, Nissan and Ferrari.
One of those makes was Mercedes with their SLS AMG.
What does it mean to a luxury car company to have their vehicles in such an event/
David McCarthy Senior Manager – Public Relations, Product and Corporate Communications at Mercedes in Australia talks to David Brown about the event.