{"id":584472,"date":"2026-04-04T06:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:46:20","slug":"former-great-race-backer-returns-for-bathurst-enduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584472\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Great Race backer returns for Bathurst enduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THERE is a Bathurst blast from the past this weekend with the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-422-Bob-Jane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Jane<\/a> T-Marts branding.<\/p>\n<p>The tyre company has track signage on Conrod Straight for the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time Bob Jane T-Marts has been sighted at the Mountain in more than two decades, since being the naming rights backer of the Bathurst 1000 in 2002-04.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-B6HR-Signage-SpeedShotsPhotography-002-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253123\"  \/>Pic: Supplied\/Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n<p>That was succeeded by Supercheap Auto, which underpinned the next 16 editions of the Great Race before Repco came to the fore starting 2021.<\/p>\n<p>BJTM rival Tyrepower has had a stranglehold on the Bathurst 1000 as the official tyre retailer of Supercars.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying for the 6 Hour starts 1:45pm AEDT today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-3?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/v8sleuth-mag-issue3_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE is a Bathurst blast from the past this weekend with the return of Bob Jane T-Marts branding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584473,"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-584472","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\/584472","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=584472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}