{"id":209455,"date":"2025-10-13T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209455\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:34:09","slug":"winner-matt-payne-and-drivers-detail-going-300mh-h-in-near-darkness-on-wet-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209455\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner Matt Payne and drivers detail going 300mh\/h in near darkness on wet track"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWho\u2019s in front of me, who\u2019s beside me, I\u2019ve got no idea. It was just scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added with a laugh, \u201cI\u2019ve got kids now. I\u2019ve got things to live for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Will<\/p>\n

Will Brown had to deal with a bonnet issue at Mt Panorama on Sunday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Payne agreed with that assessment of the conditions, explaining that as well as \u201crivers\u201d running across the track that caused cars to aquaplane, there was fog across the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, it was pretty hairy,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a time there, where the track was very wet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was getting pretty sketchy with a lot of the rivers running across the road \u2026 you had to drive on a very tiny piece of road to try and keep the car on the track and not make any mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone made one or two during those last few laps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Matt<\/p>\n

Matt Payne during the frantic final phase of the Bathurst 1000 on Sunday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old from Auckland said having to concentrate intensely for such a long period was \u201cvery, very draining\u201d.<\/p>\n

The victory consolidated the Penrite Ford driver\u2019s grasp on second position in the championship, as the series heads into its inaugural finals campaign.<\/p>\n

Three play-off races will be held at Gold Coast, Sandown, and Adelaide, and the top-10 drivers will all have a shot at overtaking series leader Broc Feeney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would definitely be the ultimate goal for us,\u201d Payne said of winning the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cBathurst was always very high on our list when I first joined Supercars … but the championship has always been the ultimate goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, we\u2019re just doing everything we can to work towards that and try and knock that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Payne\u2019s only minor disappointment at Bathurst was that he didn\u2019t cross the finish line first. He came in just behind James Golding, having been made aware that the Victorian had incurred a five-second penalty.<\/p>\n

That meant Payne didn\u2019t need to take any unnecessary risks and overtake on the last lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really want to let him go, I really wanted to win it outright, you know, obviously be first across the line … [but] I just had to give him the position,\u201d he said. \u201cDave [Reynolds] was so close behind me, we had to focus on that. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWho\u2019s in front of me, who\u2019s beside me, I\u2019ve got no idea. It was just scary.\u201d He added…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-209455","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-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209455","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=209455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}