{"id":12088,"date":"2025-07-22T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12088\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:30:13","slug":"garth-tander-to-turn-carrera-cup-laps-ahead-of-bathurst-1000-campaign-with-matt-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12088\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Tander to turn Carrera Cup laps ahead of Bathurst 1000 campaign with Matt Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"

GROVE Racing has a plan to get Garth Tander<\/a> fully sharpened up ahead of this year\u2019s Supercars enduros \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t involve any actual racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll drive one of my (Carrera) Cup cars on a test day, or probably two, at The Bend,\u201d team owner Stephen Grove told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

With five-time Bathurst 1000 winner Tander having a reputation for being one of the hardest wheel-to-wheel racers of the modern era, Grove feels no need to enter him in a race meeting per se.<\/p>\n

Rather, the priority is to simply get the 48-year-old a stack of high-speed laps to reacquaint himself.<\/p>\n

Doing so at The Bend works particularly well given the South Australian circuit will this year host the 500km curtain-raiser to the Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tander contested one Carrera Cup round in each of the past two seasons. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n

In addition to those Porsche outings, Tander will have the opportunity to take part in the all-in Supercars test day at Queensland Raceway on August 12.<\/p>\n

That day, which follows the Ipswich Super440 event, is set to revolve around precious co-driver laps as well as finetuning driver change procedures and the like.<\/p>\n

Tander, who is also a strategic advisor for Grove Racing and a leading Supercars broadcaster, will again pair up with Matt Payne<\/a> in the #19 Penrite Mustang, while Carrera Cup regular Dale Wood<\/a> will partner Kai Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fellow Great Race-winning veterans Craig Lowndes<\/a> and Lee Holdsworth<\/a> have also recently locked in pre-enduro miles, via cameos in the TA2 Muscle Car Series and GT World Challenge Australia respectively.<\/p>\n

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