{"id":212613,"date":"2025-10-14T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212613\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:46:11","slug":"the-2016-bathurst-1000-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212613\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Bathurst 1000 winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrural.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car<\/a>, we profile the VF Commodore that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-25-Jonathon-Webb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathon Webb<\/a> used in the 2016 Bathurst 1000 \u2013 the winner of the closest competitive finish in the history of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, the car remains incredibly close in specification to the car that barely greeted the chequered flag in that controversial race.<\/p>\n<p>In this profile, we catch up with the car\u2019s custodian, Brad Host, who ensures that the precious metal still sees the racetrack today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/category\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can catch the full episode of The Undercut in the new video section of our website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WATCH<\/p>\n<p>Classic Car: The 2016 Bathurst 1000 Winner<\/p>\n<p>Take a closer look at the VF Commodore that took Will Davison and Jonathon Webb to the closest competitive finish in the history of the Bathurst 1000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/full-tilt-colin-bond-autobiography-book?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Colin-Bond-Full-Tilt_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this City Rural Insurance Brokers Classic Car, we profile the VF Commodore that Will Davison and Jonathon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212614,"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-212613","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\/212613","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=212613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}