{"id":151751,"date":"2025-09-18T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151751\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:24:11","slug":"supercars-news-garth-tanders-vow-for-bathurst-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151751\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Garth Tander’s vow for Bathurst 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGarth Tander in the Gove Racing garage. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old started sixth and ultimately finished third alongside Matt Payne in the #19 Penrite Mustang, marking a 101st career podium for the veteran.<\/p>\n

Tander, though, was left frustrated by his own efforts in the opening laps, having dropped from sixth back to 10th.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wasn\u2019t aggressive enough, it\u2019s simple. I didn\u2019t put my car in the right spots, but I\u2019ll be better for that when we go racing next month,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were able to reset after that and get on with it and from then on it was OK. It lost us a bit of track position, but lesson learnt, and we\u2019ll be good to go at the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The early stumble was particularly notable given Tander\u2019s long-held reputation for gaining ground in the opening laps throughout his Supercars career.<\/p>\n

Tander was one of several co-drivers to enter the Enduro Cup without a race under his belt in 2025, instead preparing via a single Supercars test day and laps in a Porsche at The Bend.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Penrite Mustang recovered to the podium. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

His early setback came due to a stoush with Cooper Murray, the only primary driver to start the race.<\/p>\n

Tander lost sixth to Murray at Turn 1 on lap two and then tagged the back of the Erebus Motorsport Camaro in the middle of Turn 6.<\/p>\n

Slowing to ensure he was not penalised, Tander was swamped by fellow co-drivers Tim Slade, Fabian Coulthard and Harri Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave him too much room and that\u2019s fine,\u201d said Tander.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got into the back of Cooper Murray, I could have passed him, but it would have been a bump and run, so I waited and that put me in the wrong part of the race track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tander\u2019s race settled thereafter and once the second pit stop cycle was completed, primary driver Payne was in an effective third place.<\/p>\n

Payne held that to the finish to complete a Ford podium sweep, taking the flag just under eight seconds shy of the winning Brodie Kostecki\/Todd Hazelwood Dick Johnson Racing Mustang.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a really strong base to work from with Penrite Racing after this weekend,\u201d said Tander, a five-time winner at the Great Race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a couple of key areas we need to improve on, but we\u2019ve got a bit of time to work on that. I\u2019m looking forward to Bathurst.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Payne\/Tander combination was the only retirement in last year\u2019s Bathurst 1000 after a crash for the Kiwi at The Cutting caused the day\u2019s single Safety Car period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Tander in the Gove Racing garage. Image: Supplied The 48-year-old started sixth and ultimately finished third alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,12356,101816,101817,101818,806,805,803,804,9910,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-151751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bathurst-1000","11":"tag-garth-tander","12":"tag-grove-racing","13":"tag-matt-payne","14":"tag-motor","15":"tag-motor-sports","16":"tag-motosport","17":"tag-motosports","18":"tag-slot2","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}