{"id":586177,"date":"2026-04-05T02:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:18:24","slug":"supercars-stars-forgotten-bathurst-6-hour-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586177\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars stars\u2019 forgotten Bathurst 6 Hour drives"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE presence of active Supercars Championship drivers is unmissable in the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour for 2026, with three main game pilots \u2013 Thomas Randle<\/a>, Cameron Hill<\/a> and Jayden Ojeda<\/a> \u2013 filling the first three positions in Norwell Motorplex Qualifying for the annual Easter enduro.<\/p>\n

What may be less obvious is just how many drivers on the current Supercars grid have competed in the Bathurst 6 Hour since its inception a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Of the 24 full-time drivers in this year\u2019s Repco Supercars Championship, 15 have started, or at least attempted to start, the Mountain\u2019s production car classic.<\/p>\n

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Some have won the race previously (Chaz Mostert<\/a>, Hill, Ojeda) while others such as Randle and Anton De Pasquale<\/a> have been regulars near the front of recent 6 Hour grids.<\/p>\n

But several of Supercars\u2019 current leading lights contested the race before they were stars, typically in the name of building their invaluable banks of Bathurst track time.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve looked back at the 6 Hour fields of the past decade to pick out some now familiar names and their somewhat forgotten production car cameos.<\/p>\n

Brodie Kostecki<\/a> (2021)<\/p>\n

\"\"Brodie Kostecki (left). Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

Of all the names on this list, Kostecki enjoyed the most notable results in his single 6 Hour start to date.<\/p>\n

Having just commenced his full-time Supercars career with Erebus Motorsport, Kostecki teamed with George Miedecke and mentor, Paul Morris, in the former\u2019s Class A2 Mustang.<\/p>\n

The trio finished a strong fifth outright, behind four Class X BMWs and on top of the A2 division.<\/p>\n

Broc Feeney<\/a> (2021)<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

In the same year, 2025 Repco Sprint Cup champion Feeney had a much less auspicious run, failing to start the race.<\/p>\n

During his Super2 title-winning season and first year in the family of Triple Eight Race Engineering, Feeney answered a last-minute call to join Jeremy Gray, father of current Supercars star Rylan, and Stephen Robinson in an FG Falcon GT-F.<\/p>\n

The drive presented after Brisbane-based Jeff Hume missed the race due to a COVID snap lockdown in the region.<\/p>\n

Running a 1977 Moffat Ford Dealers tribute livery, Feeney practiced and attempted to qualify the big Aussie sedan until mechanical failure ended the team\u2019s weekend early.<\/p>\n

Matt Payne<\/a> (2021)<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

Another future star who quietly plied their trade down the pack in the 2021 event, Matt Payne formed part of an all-Kiwi squad with Murray Dowsett and Mitchell Maddren in a Subaru BRZ.<\/p>\n

In both Payne\u2019s first visit to Bathurst and first year in car racing, they finished 20th overall and third in Class D.<\/p>\n

The 6 Hour campaign came in an accelerated development year which included Toyota Racing Series, Carrera Cup Australia and, by season\u2019s end, Super2 with Grove Racing \u2013 who, so convinced of the young New Zealander\u2019s potential, sought to fast-track him straight into the Supercars Championship for 2022 (Payne ultimately had to sit one more season in Super2 due to insufficient Superlicence points).<\/p>\n

\"\"A young Matt Payne (left). Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

Will Brown<\/a> (2022)<\/p>\n

Future Supercars champion Brown ran double duty over the 2022 6 Hour weekend, combining a round of TCR Australia with a drive of this Mercedes-Benz AMG A45 alongside Rod Salmon and personal career supporter, Mark Griffith.<\/p>\n

The then Erebus Motorsport driver qualified the car 12th outright and third in class, but race day ended after only 44 laps.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

Aaron Cameron<\/a> (2017, 2019) and Cooper Murray<\/a> (with Cameron, 2019)<\/p>\n

The first car that Cameron raced in the 6 Hour was one of the more unusual to start a Bathurst enduro \u2013 a 1990s Mazda MX6 with long-time production car driver, the late Phil Kirkham, and Phil\u2019s son Declan in the 2017 race.<\/p>\n

The now ascendant Blanchard Racing Team star returned in 2019 with another future Supercars driver, Cooper Murray, in a Toyota 86.<\/p>\n

Driving with Kyle Gurton, they dominated Class D by three laps on their way to 13th outright.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

Rylan Gray<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n

Then 17-year-old Gray added to a busy year of full-season programs in Super2 and GT4 Australia with a 6 Hour run in the Class A2, Century 21-sponsored Mustang owned by Chris Delfsma.<\/p>\n

Teaming up with Delfsma and Ryan Casha, Gray took the start of the race but retired after 16 laps.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Speed Shots Photography<\/p>\n

Declan Fraser<\/a> (2018)<\/p>\n

Fraser was one of many teenaged drivers that combined programs in Toyota 86 competition with an Easter enduro start in the same model of car.<\/p>\n

As a 17-year-old, Fraser drove a Toyota 86 in Class D with Gavan Reynolds and Christopher Manning, finishing 28th overall.<\/p>\n

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