{"id":287763,"date":"2025-11-16T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287763\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:52:16","slug":"supercars-news-bathurst-1000-winners-grove-racing-sign-tim-slade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287763\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Bathurst 1000 winners Grove Racing sign Tim Slade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/JM2_3259-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Bathurst 1000 winners confirm first Enduro Cup signing\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Payne and Garth Tander won the 2025 Bathurst 1000 in the #100 Grove Racing Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>Revealed by Speedcafe earlier this month, the news has been confirmed by the Penrite-backed team at Sandown.<\/p>\n<p>Slade, 40, drove alongside Nick Percat at MSR this year but is making the switch to Grove amid a wholesale change to the Ford squad\u2019s co-driver line-up.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected, but not yet confirmed, that Slade will partner Kai Allen, whose 2025 co-driver Dale Wood was recently let go by the squad.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1011340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tim-Slade-Grove.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Slade in Grove Racing colours. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The team will have a double change following Saturday\u2019s confirmation that Garth Tander is retiring from full-time driving.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Johnson Racing outcast Will Davison is being heavily linked to the vacant drive alongside Matt Payne.<\/p>\n<p>  <a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/289781\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/289781.gif\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Payne and Garth Tander won the 2025 Bathurst 1000 in the #100 Grove Racing Ford Mustang. Revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,101817,806,805,803,804,6490,85,59567,2499],"class_list":["post-287763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-grove-racing","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot3","tag-sports","tag-tim-slade","tag-will-davison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287763","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=287763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}